TY - JOUR
T1 - Community understanding of the impact of temporary visitors on incidental destinations
AU - Simpson, Ken
AU - Bretherton, Philip
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Influential changes in global economics have posed important survival and sustainability questions for small urban communities. in response, many such communities have turned to the tourism industry as a potential economic saviour, and have thus embarked on a developmental journey that has been exhaustively examined in the tourism literature of the past thirty years. However, this literature is all but unanimous in examining the benefits and costs of community tourism after the event, when those costs and benefits have become clearly evident and significantly entrenched. in seeking to evaluate the extent to which residents of four small cities are aware of potential costs and benefits, before the advent of any significant tourism activity, this paper analyses the content of 782 responses to a written survey procedure. Results indicate a generally realistic local awareness of the economic aspects of increased tourism activity, but an over-optimistic assessment of environmental impacts, societal impacts, and the ability of local stakeholders to successfully manage the process of tourism industry development.
AB - Influential changes in global economics have posed important survival and sustainability questions for small urban communities. in response, many such communities have turned to the tourism industry as a potential economic saviour, and have thus embarked on a developmental journey that has been exhaustively examined in the tourism literature of the past thirty years. However, this literature is all but unanimous in examining the benefits and costs of community tourism after the event, when those costs and benefits have become clearly evident and significantly entrenched. in seeking to evaluate the extent to which residents of four small cities are aware of potential costs and benefits, before the advent of any significant tourism activity, this paper analyses the content of 782 responses to a written survey procedure. Results indicate a generally realistic local awareness of the economic aspects of increased tourism activity, but an over-optimistic assessment of environmental impacts, societal impacts, and the ability of local stakeholders to successfully manage the process of tourism industry development.
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U2 - 10.1080/15575330903444077
DO - 10.1080/15575330903444077
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 340
EP - 353
JO - Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
JF - Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society
SN - 1557-5330
IS - 3
ER -