Quality and sustainability of tourism development in Copper Canyon, Mexico: Perceptions of community stakeholders and visitors

Herrera, Manuel; Sasidharan, Vinod; Hernández, Julián Alberto Álvarez; Herrera, Luis Daniel Azpeitia

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2018.05.003

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“…As mentioned before, there were some negative tourism impacts, such as water contamination, waste in unsuitable areas, and lack of sewage treatment, which were perceived by all participants in the three national parks. These results are in agreement with previous findings [66][67][68][69], which showed the same community perceptions regarding tourism development in national parks. There were, however, differences in the perception of other negative impacts between the three parks.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Community Perceptions of Tourism Impacts on Coastal Protected Areas

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2019

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The Dominican Republic is one of the countries with the highest growing number of tourists in coastal protected areas. The objective of this study was to examine the perceived impact of tourism on three coastal national parks, involving all the sectors related to these protected areas and tourism. Workshops were carried out in the coastal protected areas studied. The results revealed the poor integration of local communities in the management plans, the lack of information on protected areas, and the poverty of the majority of the resident families despite income of tourism. The findings of this study highlighted the concept of a carrying capacity or threshold for tourism development. Lower to moderate levels of tourism development appeared beneficial, but as tourism development increased, perceptions of the community worsened. The results also confirmed that tourism contributes to environmental degradation, mainly due to contamination of rivers and coastlines, accumulation of waste, and over-exploitation of natural resources. A series of strategies is proposed to minimize this impact.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Community Perceptions of Tourism Impacts on Coastal Protected Areas

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“…The emissions from the vehicles transporting tourists are responsible for degrading the air quality [93] and the solid waste pollution generated by the mass tourism could cause degradation to environment and wildlife habitats [94]. Previous studies have revealed that stakeholders perceived environmental problems arose from tourism in an area [95][96][97]. In addition to the environmental problems, mass tourism also results in social problems over resource use [91,98].…”

Section: Mass Tourism: Its Economic Benefits Environmental Problems mentioning

confidence: 99%

Issues and Opportunities Associated with Trophy Hunting and Tourism in Khunjerab National Park, Northern Pakistan

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Trophy hunting and mass tourism are the two major interventions designed to provide various socioeconomic and ecological benefits at the local and regional levels. However, these interventions have raised some serious concerns that need to be addressed. This study was conducted in Khunjerab National Park (KNP) with an aim to analyze comparatively the socioeconomic and ecological impacts of trophy hunting and mass tourism over the last three decades within the context of sustainability. Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) with key stakeholders and household interviews were conducted to collect data on trophy hunting and mass tourism, and on local attitudes towards these two interventions in and around KNP. The results revealed that 170 Ibex (Capra sibirica) and 12 Blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) were hunted in the study area over the past three decades, and trophy hunting was not based on a sustainable harvest level. Trophy hunting on average generated USD 16,272 annual revenue, which was invested in community development. However, trophy hunting has greatly changed the attitudes of local residents towards wildlife: a positive attitude towards the wild ungulates and strongly negative attitude towards wild carnivores. In addition, trophy hunting has reduced the availability of ungulate prey species for Snow leopards (Panthera uncia), and consequently, Snow leopards have increased their predation on domestic livestock. This has, in turn, increased human–snow leopard conflict, as negative attitudes towards carnivores result in retaliatory killing of Snow leopards. Furthermore, according to official record data, the number of tourists to KNP has increased tremendously by 10,437.8%, from 1382 in 1999 to 145,633 in 2018. Mass tourism on average generated USD 33,904 annually and provided opportunities for locals to earn high incomes, but it caused damages to the environment and ecosystem in KNP through pollution generation and negative impacts on wildlife. Considering the limited benefits and significant problems created by trophy hunting and mass tourism, we suggest trophy hunting should be stopped and mass tourism should be shifted to ecotourism in and around KNP. Ecotourism could mitigate human–Snow leopard conflicts and help conserve the fragile ecosystem, while generating enough revenue incentives for the community to protect biodiversity and compensate for livestock depredation losses to Snow leopards. Our results may have implications for management of trophy hunting and mass tourism in other similar regions that deserve further investigation.

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“…The activities of many people, how they spend their leisure time in recent decades, have fundamentally changed. Different consumer behaviors, styles of individualization, consumption of fun and adventure, advanced globalization and sustainability, increasing luxury and a new health and body awareness are popular phenomena [7,21]. Medical tourism can contribute to the sustainable development if the pillars of sustainable tourism development are highlighted throughout its service chain [21].…”

Section: The Concept Of Medical and Sustainable Medical Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, interpretations of this concept are presented differently. Sustainable medical tourism is a type of tourism that has emerged for people traveling to other countries to receive medical, surgical, dental and other services [21]. Medical tourism is a type of tourism where consumers travel to other countries to receive appropriate medical treatment [22].…”

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“…Many scientists tried to identify motives for choosing medical tourism services abroad. The main motives are highlighted in the research of Gabor and Oltean [31], Fetscherin and Stephano [23], Herrera et al [21], Černikovaitė and Mameniškis [15], Goodarzi et al [33], and others. According to the results of the research, the two groups of the motives can be defined.…”

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Cooperation Perspectives in Sustainable Medical Tourism: The Case of Lithuania

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Sustainable medical tourism is an emergent and growing business worldwide, combining different and very specific purposes from pleasurable travel to sometimes-stressful services of health care. Lithuania can boast of medical technologies and the professionalism of doctors, but this is not enough to compete in the field of sustainable medical tourism. In this situation, cooperation is very significant in sustainable medical tourism. This research investigates a conceptual framework for cooperation possibilities in sustainable medical tourism. Based on a systematic and comparative analysis of scientific literature, the authors of this paper present the conceptual model illustrating the dissemination of sustainable medical tourism through cooperation. The overall results imply that facilitators’ cooperation perspectives in sustainable medical tourism should be highly beneficial for participants and medical tourists. The basis for the improvement of cooperation is communication, contact development, the form of work organization, coordination of work, sharing of knowledge and experience. Cooperation in this particular field determines the role of tourism development, but it is concluded that cooperation in this area is not developed well.

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Quality and sustainability of tourism development in Copper Canyon, Mexico: Perceptions of community stakeholders and visitors

Cited by 37 publications

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Community Perceptions of Tourism Impacts on Coastal Protected Areas

Community Perceptions of Tourism Impacts on Coastal Protected Areas

Issues and Opportunities Associated with Trophy Hunting and Tourism in Khunjerab National Park, Northern Pakistan

Cooperation Perspectives in Sustainable Medical Tourism: The Case of Lithuania

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