Fragmented development: Tourism-driven economic changes in Kazbegi, Georgia

Gugushvili, Temur; Salukvadze, Gvantsa; Salukvadze, Joseph

doi:10.1016/j.aasci.2017.02.005

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“…This paper highlights that positive interaction between tourism and local culture provides unique services and contributes to sustainability. The study confirms the crucial importance of maintaining local products and traditional cuisine in tourism (Gugushvili et al 2017;Khartishvili et al 2019). This helps tourism to be sustainable and inclusive, in the sense of involving indigenous people.…”

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“…The latest studies from mountainous regions of Georgia have highlighted the explicit economic transformations in local residents' livelihood strategies under rapidly increasing tourism ( Figure 1). In recent years, communities have significantly benefited from involvement in a diverse range of tourism-related activities, such as establishing guesthouses, catering, and providing entertainment services (Gugushvili et al 2017;H€ uller et al 2017;Khartishvili et al 2019). Some authors have outlined promising directions for further economic development, such as rural tourism, ecotourism, heritage tourism, and agritourism (Khoshtaria and Chachava 2017;Paresishvili et al 2017;Khartishvili et al 2019).…”

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Has Traditional Georgian Hospitality Been Sustained Under Tourism Development? Evidence from the High-Mountain Regions of Georgia

Gugushvili

Salukvadze

2019

Mountain Research and Development

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Has Traditional Georgian Hospitality Been Sustained Under Tourism Development? Evidence from the High-Mountain Regions of Georgia

Gugushvili

Salukvadze

2019

Mountain Research and Development

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“…Despite the close focus of the government and marked progress of tourism industry, little attention has been given to empirical analysis of the relationship between tourism development and long-term economic growth in Georgia. Although there are some researches about tourism sector in Georgia (Gugushvili, Salukvadze, & Salukvadze, 2017;Paresishvili, Kvaratskhelia, & Mirzaeva, 2017), to our best knowledge, there is no empirical study to investigate causality between international tourism and economic growth in the case of Georgia. Th us, the fi ndings of this study are expected to provide important implications not only for academicians but also for the policy makers in Georgian government.…”

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Testing tourism-led economic growth and economic-driven tourism growth hypotheses

Aliyev

Ahmadova

2020

Tourism (Zagreb, Online)

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This paper empirically investigates a causal relationship between tourism and economic growth in Georgia for 1997-2018 period by employing ARDLBT approach to cointegration. Results reject economic-driven tourism growth hypothesis for Georgia and reveal that impact of tourism development over economic growth is negative in the long-run, in contrary positive in the short-run. Obtained results suggest that there is a possibility to have a tourism resource curse in the long-term in Georgia. Georgian government should build a tourism strategy to avoid crowding out of human capital from industrial production and decrease the share of imports for the needs of tourism sector

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“…Tourism-related activities might include the expansion of accommodation facilities, growth of farmlands and other food production industries, development of transport and energy infrastructure to support trade, and tourism and leisure activities. It is universally acknowledged that tourism positively impacts economic development by providing employment opportunities, promoting the development of other supporting industries, and fostering the transformation of socio-economic structures [4][5][6]. The tourism industry is, therefore, a major source of revenue, employment, and a foreign exchange earner for the local economy in many countries [7,8].…”

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Assessing the Influence of Tourism-Driven Activities on Environmental Variables on Hainan Island, China

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Tourism is a primary socio-economic factor on many coastal islands. Tourism contributes to the livelihoods of the residents, but also influences natural resources and energy consumption and can become a significant driver of land conversion and environmental change. Understanding the influence of tourist-related activities is vital for sustainable tourism development. We chose Hainan Island in South China as a research area to study the influence of tourist-driven activities on environmental variables (as Land Surface Temperatures (LST) and related ecosystem variables) during the period of 2000 to 2019. In Hainan, the local economy relies heavily on tourism, with an ever-growing influx of tourists each year. We categorised location-based points of interest (POIs) into two classes, non-tourism sites and tourism-related sites, and utilised satellite data from the cloud-based platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) to extract LST and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. We analysed the LST variations, NDVI changes and the land use/land cover (LULC) changes and compared the relative difference in LST and NDVI between the tourism-related sites and non-tourism-related sites. The main findings of this study were: (1) The median LST in the tourism-related sites was relatively higher (1.3) than the LST in the non-tourism-related sites for the 20 years. Moreover, every annual mean LST of tourism-related sites was higher than the LST values in non-tourism-related sites, with an average difference of 1.2 °C for the 20 years and a maximum difference of 1.7 °C. We found higher annual LST anomalies for tourist-related sites compared to non-tourism sites after 2010, which indicated the likely positive differences in LST above the average LST during 20 years for tourism-related sites when compared against the non-tourism related sites, thus highlighting the potential influence of tourism activities on LST. (2) The annual mean NDVI value for tourism-related sites was significantly lower than for non-tourism places every year, with an average NDVI difference of 0.26 between the two sites. (3) The land cover changed significantly: croplands and forests reduced by 3.5% and 2.8% respectively, while the areas covered by orchards and urban areas increased by 2% and 72.3% respectively. These results indicate the influence of the tourism-driven activities includes the relatively high LST, vegetation degradation and land-use conversion particular to urban cover type. The outcome of this work provides a method that combines cloud-based satellite-derived data with location-based POIs data for quantifying the long-term influence of tourism-related activities on sensitive coastal ecosystems. It contributes to designing evidence-driven management plans and policies for the sustainable tourism development in coastal areas.

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Fragmented development: Tourism-driven economic changes in Kazbegi, Georgia

Cited by 21 publications

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Has Traditional Georgian Hospitality Been Sustained Under Tourism Development? Evidence from the High-Mountain Regions of Georgia

Has Traditional Georgian Hospitality Been Sustained Under Tourism Development? Evidence from the High-Mountain Regions of Georgia

Testing tourism-led economic growth and economic-driven tourism growth hypotheses

Assessing the Influence of Tourism-Driven Activities on Environmental Variables on Hainan Island, China

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