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Tourism is one of the globe’s greatest contributors to economic growth, providing significant revenues, employment opportunities, and massive investment input to destination communities around the world. As tourism becomes an economic mainstay for many communities, authorities increasingly encourage and promote the arrival of ever greater numbers of visitors. This increased visitation has significant impacts on the social, cultural, environmental, and psychological viability of destination communities, often adversely affecting the quality of life and well-being of residents.
Current approaches to measuring the impacts of tourism often fail to account for its negative impacts and instead rely on metrics associated with tourist volumes, revenues, and taxes. However, it is imperative to understand, measure, and improve the totality of economic, social, environmental, and psychological impacts of tourism. This book aims to introduce the knowledge, methods, measurement practices, and management tools necessary to explore and maximize the impacts of tourism development on residents’ quality of life, health, and well-being in different types of tourist destinations.
The first chapter introduces the foundations of tourism, discusses the tourism phenomenon in general, provides definitions of tourism, and explores the evolution of tourism development, supply and demand, tourism competitiveness, tourism systems, and global issues. The second chapter examines the economic, political, social, environmental, health, and psychological impacts of tourism, as well as the phenomenon of over-tourism. The third chapter is devoted to existing and emerging methodologies for evaluating tourism impacts. The fourth chapter discusses different opportunities to influence the impacts of tourism, concluding with the issues of sustainability, destination resilience, developing destination strategies, and applying behavioral insights in destination management and tourism policies.
ASIN : B0CYHFTJR6
Publisher : Independently published (March 17, 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 302 pages
ISBN-13 : 979-8320032276
Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches