Deliberative Democratic Practices in Tourism Planning: Towards a Model of Participatory Community Tourism Planning

With regard to practical implications of the framework of deliberative democracy, this study showed that while deliberative democracy and planning as communicative action are both indeed noble ideals to strive to, their application in practice should revolve around designing and implementing processes that would shift the focus from outcomes to recognizing the role and importance of contextual and process factors ensuring meaningful citizen involvement in community based planning and decision making.