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Boomtown Tourism and Resident Quality of Life

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In this article, the authors compare the tourism development cycle and social disruption theories for assessing the impact of gaming tourism on resident quality of life (QOL) in host communities, using data from a nongaming community (Grand Lake, CO), three early stage and three later stage gaming communities (Central City, Blackhawk, and Cripple Creek, CO).
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This article is published in Journal of Business Research.The article was published on 1999-03-01. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social disruption & Tourism.

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How does tourism in a community impact the quality of life of community residents

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test a theoretical model that links community residents' perceptions of tourism impact (economic, social, cultural, and environmental) with residents' satisfaction with particular life domains (material well-being, community wellbeing, emotional well being, and health and safety wellbeing) and overall life satisfaction.
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Measuring Residents’ Attitude toward Sustainable Tourism: Development of Sustainable Tourism Attitude Scale

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated a scale assessing residents' attitudes toward sustainable tourism (SUS-TAS), which was administered to 800 households in a small tourism community in Texas.
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Local perceptions of tourism as indicators of destination decline.

TL;DR: This paper explored the role of resident's perceptions of impacts as indicators of tourism destination decline using data collected from five coastal communities in Belize, each experiencing a different level of tourism development.
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Life satisfaction and support for tourism development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored residents' perceived value of tourism development, life domain satisfaction (material/non-material), and overall quality of life in their community using a sample of residents from five different tourism destinations.
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The contribution of vacations to quality of life

TL;DR: The contribution of vacations to people's life satisfaction and quality of life (QOL) has recently attracted substantial attention among tourism researchers as discussed by the authors, however, most QOL scales do not include vacations: 7% explicitly measure vacations whereas 42% only include items relating to vacations within the broader Leisure domain.
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Marketing management: analysis. planning. implementation and control

Philip Kotler
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the critical role of marketing in organizations and society, and propose a set of strategies for the global marketplace, including direct marketing, sales-promotion, and public-relations.
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The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources.

TL;DR: The concept of a recognizable cycle in the evolution of tourist areas is presented in this paper, using a basic s curve to illustrate their waving and waning popularity, and specific stages in the evolutionary sequence are described, along with a range of possible future trends.
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Residents' perceptions on tourism impacts

TL;DR: This article presented a social exchange process model as a theoretical basis for some understanding of why residents perceive tourism impacts positively or negatively, and derived propositions from the model to test the relationships between the model's components.
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Resident support for tourism development

TL;DR: In this article, the authors test a model of the relationships among rural resident perceptions of tourism impacts, support for additional tourism development, restrictions on tourism development and support for special tourism taxes.
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