Development planning in the Northwest Territories : the case of tourism ...

• Main Author: Weeres, Scot David
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2010
• Subjects: Northwest Territories
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0097840; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0097840

The purpose of this thesis is to argue that effective economic development planning cannot occur without integrating the planning, policy-making, and programme development processes. The Government of the Northwest Territories' tourism development planning efforts are examined and analysed in an effort to identify the determinants of successful development planning. For a number of decades economic development activity in the Northwest Territories has been based on non-renewable resource extraction. The result has been the creation of an unstable and dependent economy that largely serves the needs of non-residents. Increasingly Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT), like other governments across Canada and around the world, has turned to development planning to deal with the instability and dependency problems that are an inevitable adjunct to non-renewable resource based economies. The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has concluded that tourism can provide some protection from the ...