Social impacts of tourism

King, Brian; Pizam, Abraham; Milman, Ady

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(93)90089-l

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“…In his studies, respondents chose the following list of works and facilities: provision of recreation facilities; forest roads; reforestation; watering-troughs; information centers and landscape architecture works. Some authors [41][42][43][44] have concluded that inhabitants of heavily tourism-developed regions have better knowledge of the negative impacts of recreational use, but at the same time they prefer further development of tourism infrastructure. Similarly, our findings show that respondents are aware of the environmental problems caused by massive tourism development, but at the same time, they support the opening of a new border crossing in the central part of the NP.…”

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Changes in Local People’s Perceptions of the Sumava National Park in the Czech Republic over a Ten Year Period (1998–2008)

2012

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Abstract:The Sumava National Park (NP), the largest protected area of its kind in Central Europe, is as interesting as it is problematic (historical development, conflicts between regional development and landscape protection). In order to evaluate the success of the Park's policies, local park inhabitants' attitudes were assessed over a ten-year period. Two surveys (N = 181 and N = 200) were conducted in August, 1998 and 2008. The questionnaires consisted of 43 queries from three thematic areas; (a) socio-demographic data, (b) environment and nature conservation, and (c) sustainable tourism and local development. The comparison of the results 1998 with 2008 showed that the Park inhabitants perceived living in the Park as improving and the scheme for nature conservation as either "optimal" or "more strict". The surveys also showed the loss of job opportunities as the most prevalent local concern. In a cluster analysis based on perceptions of (a) the Park, (b) the environment and (c) Park Administration, subjects were divided into four opinion groups ranging from "optimists" to "grumblers". The most "positive (optimistic)" group saw little connection between the Park's existence and job losses, while the most "negative" group saw a strong connection in that regard.

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Changes in Local People’s Perceptions of the Sumava National Park in the Czech Republic over a Ten Year Period (1998–2008)

2012

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“…It has frequently been noted that the positive effects of tourism relate primarily to economic aspects, such as employment opportunities, increased incomes, improved living standards, and a growth of the tax base. Other positive benefits of tourism include enhanced quality of life, the provision of hospitality to strangers, and enhanced confidence amongst residents (King et al, 1993;Milman & Pizam, 1988). It has been found that resident attitudes to tourism are significantly influenced by personal and locational characteristics, by contact with tourists, length of residence, age, and language (Brougham & Butler, 1981).…”

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Creating a scale for assessing socially sustainable tourism

Zhang

Fan

Tse

et al. 2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Abstract:As destinations absorb even increasing number of visitors, destination managers become progressively more concerned about the longer term viability of tourism from a resident's perspective. However, few studies have examined the application of real time social sustainability within tourism, particularly how to measure impacts on social sustainability. This study outlines the development of a valid and reliable scale -the Scale of Social Sustainability (SSS) -for tourism that provides an assessment of social sustainability in destination settings. A 10-step procedure was developed drawing upon the related literature. A telephone poll-based survey generated 1,839 valid responses from Hong Kong residents. Hong Kong's growing popularity as a destination provides a rich array of host-guest conflict situations. Dimensionality was identified using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. Construct validity, reliability, and stability were assessed, and found good, showing that the scale could be used by other destinations worldwide. The theoretical and managerial implications of the scale are discussed, including options for annual surveys giving policy makers alerts before situations worsen.Detailed host resident viewpoints, and the large scale of the survey can help local residents be informed about tourism development and better involved in the policy formation process.

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“…Because findings are mostly based on evidence from survey data in single host communities or in a small number of neighboring areas, they depend on a wide range of idiosyncratic peculiarities, which makes it difficult to synthesize them (Tosun, 2002). Further research is needed to develop a theory of social impacts of tourism, according to King, Pizam, and Milman (1993). This research would itself be strengthened by using a tighter theoretical basis and incorporating objective measures of impacts (Harrill, 2004).…”

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Tourism agglomeration and its impact on social welfare: An empirical approach to the Spanish case

Urtasun

Gutiérrez

2006

Tourism Management

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This paper measures two descriptors of tourism namely, its scale and agglomeration level and subsequently evaluates both descriptors according to their direct and joint impacts on the host communities' quality of life. The key constructs for this research are the following: (1) a tourism evaluation function that incorporates the scale and agglomeration of tourism, which is constructed for each one of the 50 Spanish provinces; and (2) a measure of the host communities' quality of life that comprises 12 objective partial indicators and an overall indicator that integrates them all. Results show the existence of carrying capacity frontiers or maximum thresholds that tourist destinations can sustain without damaging the economic, socio cultural, or environmental systems of the communities they belong.

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Social impacts of tourism

Cited by 365 publications

References 17 publications

Changes in Local People’s Perceptions of the Sumava National Park in the Czech Republic over a Ten Year Period (1998–2008)

Changes in Local People’s Perceptions of the Sumava National Park in the Czech Republic over a Ten Year Period (1998–2008)

Creating a scale for assessing socially sustainable tourism

Tourism agglomeration and its impact on social welfare: An empirical approach to the Spanish case

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