Revisiting the Regulatory Function of Government Toward Tourism Sustainability and Resilience: Basis for Policy Formulation

Abstract

While government is known to provide political guidance and exercising its executive function, it is also has regulatory powers through laws it enacts. In fostering sustainability, it is important to inquire how government's role can be innovated to facilitate sustainability, particularly in the travel and tourism industry. By reviewing tourism governance literature and mapping governance roles in the travel and tourism industry, this chapter creates a policy framework that underscores a new approach to tourism governance. We underscore that government's role must pivot toward being more developmental than regulatory so that it can effectively stimulate the market to sustainability by fostering value creation, supporting manpower capacitation, ensuring health and safety, and protecting the environment. This can be done if government will not fix the market and promote free market policymaking.

Citation

Rivera, J.P.R. and Andrada, W.M. (2024), "Revisiting the Regulatory Function of Government Toward Tourism Sustainability and Resilience: Basis for Policy Formulation", Rivera, J.P.R., Gutierrez, E.L.M. and Roxas, F.M.Y. (Ed.) Revisiting Sustainable Tourism in the Philippines (New Perspectives in Tourism and Hospitality Management), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-678-820241013