Tourism Community Relationships

The study of tourism is, arguably, ready for a thorough theoretical yet empirical analysis of the relationship between tourism and host communities. Pearce, Moscardo and Ross deal with the impacts tourism is having on communities internationally, going beyond a mere review of such impacts to investigate the origins, development and manifestations of community attitudes. A theoretical perspective is developed on how communities come to understand tourism and react to it. In terms of its disciplinary approaches the book combines social-psychological, sociological, economic and media analyses and can properly be termed a study within the new specialism of tourism. A number of yet-to-be-published studies of tourism and communities are reported on, and some large scale existing works on tourism and community reaction are reviewed and revisited.

• | Author: P. L. Pearce
• | Publisher: Pergamon
• | Publication Date: Jan 08, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0080423957
• | ISBN-13: 9780080423951