WORKING TOWARDS DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIPS

For the first - and possibly the last - time, the Commonwealth Institu te (still under threat of closure) hosted a one-day tourism symposium on 22 March 1994 with the theme: Tourism Hosts and Guests - Partners i n Development? It brought together representatives from so-called deve loping countries, the UK tourism industry and other concerned parties, and students and academics. The complexity of the issues involved and the question mark over the term 'development' gave ample scope for ap proaching the symposium's theme from a variety of angles. The panellis ts' deliberations of the day and two workshops consequently provided s timuli for further enquiries rather than answers to the theme's centra l question. Peter Grabowski (University of Luton) summarizes the panel ists' contributions and some of the dicussions.