| dc.contributor.author | Ndivo, Rayviscic Mutinda | |
| dc.contributor.author | Okech, Roselyne N. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-03T11:50:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-03T11:50:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rayviscic Mutinda Ndivo & Roselyne N. Okech (2020) Tourism Governance in Transition Period: Restructuring Kenya's Tourism Administration from Centralized to Devolved System, Tourism Planning & Development, 17:2, 166-186, DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2019.1580210 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2156-8324 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.1080/21568316.2019.1580210 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.mut.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/6859 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study sought to examine the efficacy of tourism administration
within Kenya’s devolved system of government. The study was
based on content analysis of official documents and websites
from the national and county governments in Kenya. Nine
counties out of the 47 were further purposively selected for
analysis of the tourism functionalities undertaken by the county
governments. Data were analysed using thematic data analysis
based on predetermined research questions. The study found out
that whereas the role of both levels of government in Kenya’s
tourism development is clearly identified, gaps exist that would
hamper coordinated development of a competitive tourism
industry in the country. This study thus identifies a number of
lessons for tourism administration restructuring for destinations
transiting from centralized to decentralized government system
including the need for a clear delineation of tourism development
functions between national and devolved government units,
institutional and functional alignment between national and
devolved government levels, a clear coordination mechanism
between the tourism development mandates of the two levels of
government, need to standardize tourism administration and
development institutional framework and functions across the
devolved units, and the need for capacity building of the
devolved units during the transition point. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Tourism Planning & Development | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tourism administration; centralized vs decentralized administration; regulatory theory; destinations in transition; tourism in Kenya | en_US |
| dc.title | Tourism Governance in Transition Period: Restructuring Kenya's Tourism Administration from Centralized to Devolved System | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
