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Tourism: Passport to Development?

William Diebold, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1980 - 
- Vol. 58, Iss: 4, pp 977
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This article is published in Foreign Affairs.The article was published on 1980-01-01. It has received 542 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism.

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Host perceptions of tourism: a review of the research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore critically the development of the research into residents' perceptions of tourism, highlighting key themes and trends in the literature, and identify a number of limitations in the research, including a narrow case study base, a dependence on quantitative methods, a focus on perceptions as opposed to responses, and the exclusion of the tourist from the majority of research.
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The tourist guide: the origins, structure and dynamics of a role.

TL;DR: In this paper, the transition from the original tourist guide to the professional tourist guide is represented as a transition of emphasis from the instrumental to the communicative component, and two new role types have differentiated: the Animator and the Tour-leader, emphasizing, respectively, the social and the interactionary components.
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Tourism and economic development: A survey

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of the literature on tourism and economic development is presented, identifying the contribution that tourism can make to development, including foreign currency, income and employment, and the costs that it entails.
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Residents' attitudes toward tourism development

TL;DR: This article examined attitudes of residents of two of Ghana's towns toward tourism development factor analysis of scaled items measuring their attitudes resulted in seven tourismrelated factors: social interaction with tourists, beneficial cultural influences, welfare impacts, negative interference in daily life, economic costs, sexual permissiveness, and perception of crowding.
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Perceived impacts of tourism: The case of samos

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of tourism, as perceived by the residents of Pythagorion, a well-established tourism destination on the Greek island of Samos, were investigated.