Abstract
As literature review indicates, the legal structure of a tourist attraction is a topic that does not attract attention by either academics or businesspeople or consultants. Even more, the reason “ why ” the promoter chose a specific type of legal structure is covered by every few research Choi, K. W., & Suh, Y. K.). It seems that the choice of legal structure of a tourist attraction by entrepreneurs, promoters, governments is not that important in the upcoming daily operation of the attraction, but it seems that the choice of a legal structure is influenced by many other elements and stakeholders. In this thesis we refer only to the legal structure (e.g., private, public, not-for-profit, crown corporation public service) that local entrepreneurs, local promoters, local leaders, and governments use to create and operate a tourist attraction. To explore more in detail this avenue of the choice of legal structure of a corporation and the impact of different stakeholders. For this paper, an attraction refers to a permanent facility whose primary purpose is to provide entertainment or educational productions or to enable musical or theatrical performances or to host sporting events. It must be open to the public without prior booking and should be capable of attracting day visitors or tourists (adapted from Swarbrooke and Page). This definition eliminates temporary events such fairs (e.g., agricultural fair), festivals (e.g., multi-day jazz festival), sports events (e.g., marathons, cycling races) etc. that do not require permanent and expensive installations (infrastructure).
Presenters
Sylvain Audet, MBAStudent, Pracademic / DBA Candidate, Université du Québec à Montréal / Aston University, Quebec, Canada
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Changing Dimensions of Contemporary Tourism
KEYWORDS
Tourism, Leisure, Stakeholder, Local Development, Regional Development, Ski Area
