Contributions

  • Moscardo, Gianna. - Contributor
  • Ross, Glenn F. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - Pergamon, Oxford, OX, UK, England

Language

English

Word Count

64,750 words, Guess

Page Count

259 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Goodreads4202572

Classifications

  • DDC338.4/791
  • LCCG155.A1 P362 1996

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Tourism social science series

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