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Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts - An Integrated Approach (Paperback)
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Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts - An Integrated Approach (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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As one of the world's largest industries, tourism carries with it
significant social, environmental, economic and political impacts.
Although tourism can provide significant economic benefits for some
destinations, the image of tourism as a benign and environmentally
friendly industry has often been challenged. There is a clear and
growing body of evidence that suggests that the effects of tourism
development are far more complex than policy-makers usually suggest
and that the impacts of tourism occur not just at the destination
but at all stages of a tourist's trip. Furthermore, tourism does
not exist in a vacuum. Broader social and environmental changes
also shape the form, growth and experience of tourism development.
This text provides a clear, accessible and up-to-date synthesis of
tourism's role in our contemporary world, both as an agent of
change, and as a response to it. Tourism-related change is
approached from a framework that illustrates the changing
environments in which they occur, including the spatial scale of
such impacts and the effects of these impacts over time. This
framework is then applied to the economic, socio-cultural and
physical dimensions of tourism. After examining the different forms
of tourism-related impacts, the book then discusses the role of
planning as part of an integrated approach to the mitigation of
undesirable impacts and the maximization of the desirable benefits
of tourism development. Case studies and illustrations from a
variety of locations from around the world are used throughout the
book to exemplify key themes and issues; additionally figures and
tables serve to elucidate statistical data. Understanding and
Managing Tourism Impacts illustrates that when well managed tourism
can make a positive contribution to destinations. The books use of
issues of scale, time and form to illustrate the effects of tourism
provide an accessible and significant reminder that tourism's
impacts vary over time and space, affects both the visitor and the
host community, and can be unpredictable in its consequences.
Chapter objectives, recommended readings, and links to web-based
material help students, practitioners and researchers to grasp the
broader implications of tourism development in today's world. With
tourism increasingly being implicated as a factor in climate and
environmental change, and with the benefits and costs of tourism as
a form of economic development being examined more closely than
ever, this book provides a timely contribution to help clarify the
potentials and pitfalls of contemporary tourism.
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