ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on tourism planning and management and considers the relationship between tourism planning, policy and management. Planning and policy in leisure, recreation and tourism Leisure planning As tourism is a recreational activity that takes place in leisure time, planning in the leisure area usually includes both recreation and tourism. S. Williams suggested a number of general aims for tourism planning. He indicated that it can help to shape and control physical patterns of development, conserve scarce resources, provide a framework for active promotion and marketing of destinations and can be a mechanism to integrate tourism with other sectors. D. Fennell argued that tourism planning requires a policy, which states the aims and objectives to be implemented in the planning process. Most initial approaches by recreation and tourism providers are made to local councils, as they are responsible for determining the effects of land use under their jurisdiction according to the Resource Management Act.
