Gold Coast, mobilities and governance

What is it about?

The 'mobilities turn' provides an interesting and thought-provoking lens to explore what is happening on the Gold Coast, Australia. It highlights the multiple layers of mobilities (limited to residents, tourists, labour, capital and image) that characterise this complex and dynamic destination. Whilst understandings of mobilities can only be partial, this paper nevertheless highlights that current tourism governance frameworks are narrow and static and that alternatives are needed.

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Why is it important?

This paper makes us think differently about current tourism governance frameworks that are static and bound within narrow sectoral and disciplinary frameworks. Tourism governance structures and processes, if they are to effectively anticipate, monitor and manage diverse change within destinations, need to reach across different policy sectors and acknowledge multiple internal and external interactions that shape tourism.