ABSTRACT
This handbook explores and critically examines both positive and negative impacts of tourism development focusing on the past, present and future issues, challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. Through a comparative approach involving international case studies, this book explores our understanding of tourism impacts and contributes to the theoretical development on relationships between tourism impacts and community support for tourism development.
This handbook focuses on a variety of geographical locations, drawing from the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world. Specifically, it explores the adoption and implementation of various tourism development and impact management approaches in a wide range of global contexts, while identifying their trends, issues and challenges. It addresses strategies relating to innovation, sustainability and social responsibility, and critically reviews the economic, sociocultural, environmental, political and technological impacts of tourism. The text also identifies future trends and issues, as well as exploring the methods used to study tourism impacts.
Conveying the latest thinking and research, this handbook will be a key reference for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies, geography, cultural studies, sustainability and business, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
Tourism impacts
chapter 4|10 pages
Tourism planning: the United Nations World Tourism Organization INSTO Programme
part II|123 pages
Economic impacts of tourism
chapter 9|12 pages
Local economic development, rural tourism and communities
chapter 14|18 pages
The extraordinary league of rural women entrepreneurs of Malawi
part III|61 pages
Sociocultural impacts of tourism
chapter 17|13 pages
Social impacts of tourism
chapter 18|10 pages
Social psychological effects of tourism
chapter 20|13 pages
Socioeconomic impacts of tourism on the local community
part IV|71 pages
Environmental impacts of tourism
chapter 23|15 pages
Environmental impact of the ugly face of tourism
chapter 24|11 pages
Sensitization of tourists about climate change and its associated impacts on the tourism sector
chapter 25|12 pages
Sustainable tourism as a catalyst for positive environmental change
part V|50 pages
Political impacts of tourism
chapter 27|12 pages
Tourism performances, government effectiveness and local growth
part VI|51 pages
Technology and tourism impacts
part VII|54 pages
Methods used to study tourism impacts