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• ccordingly, good understandings of the strengths, weaknesses and effectiveness of local governance arrangements are central to the identification and implementation of sustainable tourism initiatives.
• There is an absence of knowledge about the advantages and disadvantages of different local tourism governance approaches.
• The study found that these governance arrangements were underpinned by four key trade-offs and that these tended to shape the effectiveness of local tourism governance.
• he focus has largely been exploratory and descriptive with limited consideration of the effectiveness of local tourism governance.
• nstitutional structures are the formal and informal frameworks that create the organisation and shape the autonomy, authority, internal coherence and discipline of the organisation

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