Showing papers in "Annals of Tourism Research in 1977"

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical case is made for concentration on push factors, and, in particular, those stemming from "anomie" and ego-enhancement in the tourist himself, which is conducive to the creation of a fantasy world, one to which he plans a periodic escape.

TL;DR: Hills and Lundgren as mentioned in this paper examined some economic, cultural and ecological problems arising from the impact of tourism in the Caribbean, and the possibility of predicting saturation of tourist destinations by means of an irritation index.

TL;DR: The format and content of tourist attraction brochures are examined in this paper, focusing on their function in encouraging tourists to establish authentic "traveler-like" personal contact with the local people and area.

TL;DR: This article argued that tourism is a type of metropolitan intrusion by the white, developed world into the non-white, developing world, a new version of colonialism and imperialism, and that tourism in the Third World is sold by metropolitan agencies as fantasy leading to the rise of playground cultures in host countries.

TL;DR: Britton et al. as mentioned in this paper made tourism more supportive of small state development in the case of St. Vincent, where capital-and energy-intensive hotels with high import requirements contribute little except poorly paid employment to the local economy.

TL;DR: Aspelin et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the Mamainde Indians (a dialect group of the Nambicuara of Mato Grosso, Brazil), studied in 1968-1971, illustrate that tourists could show they "visited the Indians" without directly bothering them at all, simply by purchasing Mamain de artifacts from Indian agencies located in the provincial capitals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the growth of tourism in Trinidad and Tobago and present new methodologies to combine economic, social and environmental data into summary measures of the impact of tourism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors have attempted to isolate specific political and social variables and note the effect of international tourism on them using the case study of Israel as a case study, where international tourism has played the role of a political and cultural bridge to the outside world.