The impact of tourism on a dependent island

Boissevain, Jeremy

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“…arly studies on the perceptions and attitudes of residents towards the impact of tourism (Rothman, 1978;Boissevain, 1979;Belisle and Hoy, 1980;Sethna, 1980;Sheldon and Var, 1984;Liu and Var, 1986;Allen et al, 1988) include limited explanatory analysis as to why some people are, or are not, favourably disposed to tourism (Kayat, 2000).…”

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Power, social exchanges and tourism in Langkawi: rethinking resident perceptions

Kayat

2002

Journal of Tourism Research

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A study was undertaken among the residents on Langkawi Island, Malaysia to explore the utility of a combination of social exchange and power theories to explain residents' attitudes toward tourism and to examine how residents' evaluation of the impact of tourism in¯uences their attitudes. In-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted with 46 residents. The study concludes that the combination of social exchange and power theories is more useful than social exchange theory alone in understanding residents' attitudes concerning the impact of tourism. However, residents' general values, dependence on tourism, and ability and willingness to adapt moderate the in¯uence of power on residents' evaluation of the impact of tourism.

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Power, social exchanges and tourism in Langkawi: rethinking resident perceptions

Kayat

2002

Journal of Tourism Research

158

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“…To illustrate, Haralambopoulos and Pizam (1996) suggest islanders see large similarities between domestic and foreign tourists, and that they have 3 similar positive and negative impacts. Wilson (1997) finds domestic tourists are viewed as having more negative impacts, Boissevain (1979) the opposite. As a result, unrealistic, generic strategies, competing with a global network of destinations for elusive international travellers (Weaver, 1993, Chapman andSpeake, 2011), are frequently advised.…”

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The Extent and Role of Domestic Tourism in a Small Island

Canavan

2012

Journal of Travel Research

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This paper presents a case concerning micro-domestic tourism on the Isle of Man, BritishIsles. Despite being a small island, research highlights that considerable domestic tourism occurs (referred to as micro-domestic tourism to reflect the small island size and distinguish from wider British Isles tourism), including daytrips and overnight stays. Participants identified such behaviour as touristic, and distinct from other leisure activities. Qualitative interviews with residents explore the nature of and reasons for micro-domestic tourism within a small island. Breaks from routine, entertaining friends and family, and exploring less well known landscapes, are shown to underpin. Highlighted, is that micro-domestic tourism has a variety of potential benefits, which may counter some of the restrictions typically faced by a small island community. Support for an otherwise ailing tourism industry may help to protect facilities and infrastructure used by the wider community, maintain tourism capacity, and provide atmosphere attractive to foreign visitors.

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“…Small islands are known to be far from 88 homogenous, with even proximate neighbours having often very distinct economic, social, 89 cultural and natural landscapes (Milne, 1992). At the same time, broad similarities between 90 islands are shared, informed as they are by the challenges of peripherality resident 91 community's face, and the often resilient and creative adaptations to those (Boissevain, 1979; On the other hand is guest culture. This may be influenced by the originating cultures 94 of guests who act on holiday in ways influenced by their cultural background (Wilson, 1997;95 Carr, 2002), or perhaps in reaction against this (Hughes, 2002).…”

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Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability

Canavan

2016

Tourism Management

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defined, and what implications can be drawn from in relation to sustainability (see Figure 1). 23Tourism culture can be seen as a product of the melange of host and guest cultures that 24 occurs in a destination, resulting in a new and distinctive emergent culture, in turn shaped by 25 2 and shaping the local tourism context. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of host-26 guest interactions and the outputs to emerge from these, using tourism culture as a lens to do 27 so. It is proposed that this alternative perspective might synthesise and complement various 28 conceptual narratives within the tourism literature, and can be used to encourage a more 29 holistic, nuanced and potentially positive evaluation of tourism outputs. 30It appears that both hosts and guests are mutually affected by their tourism 31 involvements. Tourism is widely associated with cultural influence upon and at times fusion in the industry (Sindga, 1996). With these recognised as factors in more sustainable forms of Tourism Culture Nexus 81Tourism culture may best be seen as a nexus between host culture and guest culture (see 82 Figure 3). On the one hand host culture is that which is indigenous to a locale: its particular 83 arts and crafts, language, traditional roles, festivals, and ways of doing things (Tsartas, 1992; 84 Simpson, 1993;Tapper, 2001;Smith, 2009). In the case of small islands, these often host 85 unusually rich and distinctive cultures due to their relative isolation. This must be adapted to 103It is the interplay between these two cultures which could be seen as the creation, (Picard, 1997;. 109Tourism potentially becomes over time a part of everyday life (Sindiga, 1996), an authentic 110 demonstration (Cohen, 1988) and integral part of local landscapes and identity (Lim and Evans, 1975, cited in Smith, 1976 for example, defines the potential for tourism stimulated 137 interactions to enrich the knowledge of hosts and guests about each other. Outputs such as 138 higher levels of economic entrepreneurship may be stimulated as a result (see Boissevain, 139 1979;Brown, 1998; Brown and Hall, 2000). Lastly, the potential of tourism to revitalise, reinterpret, recreate and create meaning is 158 raised. Alongside a demonstration effect, what could be described as an 'attention effect' may 159 be stimulated, whereby indigenous communities are motivated by outsider interest to explore, 160 revive and reinterpret traditional aspects of local identity (i.e. Stronza and Gordillo, 2008).

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The impact of tourism on a dependent island

Cited by 70 publications

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Power, social exchanges and tourism in Langkawi: rethinking resident perceptions

Power, social exchanges and tourism in Langkawi: rethinking resident perceptions

The Extent and Role of Domestic Tourism in a Small Island

Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability

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