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Governance in context: Boracay Island, Philippines.
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In this article, a case study of Boracay Island, Philippines suggests that understanding these contextual factors is essential for sustainable tourism development, and that better planning based on a broad systematic assessment should be coupled with improved governance to move from knowledge to implementation.About:
This article is published in Annals of Tourism Research.The article was published on 1999-10-01. It has received 76 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable tourism & Tourism geography.read more
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Local government: facilitator or inhibitor of sustainable tourism development?
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of local government in facilitating, or indeed inhibiting, sustainable development objectives in a tourism destination context is explored, using in-depth interviews with local government representatives and key destination stakeholders.
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Carrying capacity in the tourism industry: a case study of Hengistbury Head
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is necessary to define and implement the concept of carrying capacity as a critical aspect for facilitating planning in the tourism process and propose a set of solutions for determining, managing, controlling and increasing the environmental carrying capacity of a tourist destination.
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Progressing the Sustainability Debate: A Knowledge Management Approach to Sustainable Tourism Planning
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-phase qualitative research process was undertaken involving in-depth interviews with tourism destination stakeholders from five case study destinations in Queensland, Australia, and the results show that the vast body of knowledge on the topic has not been diffused effectively to the destination level where it is actually needed by those who plan and manage tour...
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Tourism in archipelagos: Hawai’i and the Balearics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed tourism issues faced by archipelagos by comparing two successful "sun and beach" mass destinations, the Hawai'ian (USA) and Balearic (Spain) archipelago.
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Tourism place-making: Governance of Locality in Sweden
Johan Hultman,C. Michael Hall +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically illustrate the place-making agency of tourism by engaging with the mundane practicalities of producing geographical attractiveness, using governance theory to identify stakeholder relations, and show how tourism makes place through different governance approaches.
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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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Hosts and Guests : The Anthropology of Tourism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the five types of tourism-historical, cultural, ethnic, environmental, and recreational-and their impact on diverse societies over a broad geographical range.
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New directions in tourism for third world development
TL;DR: The Third World tourism industry has grown rapidly, but has also encountered many problems common to other outward-oriented development strategies, including: excessive foreign dependency, the creation of separate enclaves, the reinforcement of socioeconomic and spatial inequalities, environmental destruction, and rising cultural alienation as discussed by the authors.
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Travel Motivations of Japanese Overseas Travelers: A Factor-Cluster Segmentation Approach:
TL;DR: In this article, a factor-cluster market segmentation approach was used to delineate the motivations of Japanese travelers who travel abroad for pleasure based on six push motivation factors, and cluster analysis was employed to identify similar respondents based on their motivations.
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The impact of tourism on the physical environment
TL;DR: In this article, Cohen et al. assess the environmental impact of tourism and spell out the principal factors on which this impact depends: the intensity of tourist site-use, the resiliency of the eco-system, the time perspective of the developers and the transformational character of touristic developments.