ABSTRACT

This handbook explores and critically examines both positive and negative impacts of tourism development focusing on the past, present and future issues, challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. Through a comparative approach involving international case studies, this book explores our understanding of tourism impacts and contributes to the theoretical development on relationships between tourism impacts and community support for tourism development.

This handbook focuses on a variety of geographical locations, drawing from the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world. Specifically, it explores the adoption and implementation of various tourism development and impact management approaches in a wide range of global contexts, while identifying their trends, issues and challenges. It addresses strategies relating to innovation, sustainability and social responsibility, and critically reviews the economic, sociocultural, environmental, political and technological impacts of tourism. The text also identifies future trends and issues, as well as exploring the methods used to study tourism impacts.

Conveying the latest thinking and research, this handbook will be a key reference for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies, geography, cultural studies, sustainability and business, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.

part II|123 pages

Economic impacts of tourism

chapter 7|14 pages

Economic impacts of tourism

chapter 8|12 pages

Tourism and income inequality in Mauritius

An empirical investigation

chapter 9|12 pages

Local economic development, rural tourism and communities

Southern African perspectives

chapter 14|18 pages

The extraordinary league of rural women entrepreneurs of Malawi

The socio-economic impacts of tourism in Malawi

part III|61 pages

Sociocultural impacts of tourism

chapter 17|13 pages

Social impacts of tourism

A critical literature review on the interrelation between well-being and tourism in the case of seniors

chapter 18|10 pages

Social psychological effects of tourism

Evaluation of the tourist–local people interaction within the context of Allport’s intergroup contact theory

chapter 20|13 pages

Socioeconomic impacts of tourism on the local community

Nkhata Bay district, Malawi

part IV|71 pages

Environmental impacts of tourism

part V|50 pages

Political impacts of tourism

chapter 27|12 pages

Tourism performances, government effectiveness and local growth

The Italian cultural heritage perspective

chapter 28|24 pages

Impacts of corruption on tourism

A stop-and-go period for Brazilian tourism

part VI|51 pages

Technology and tourism impacts

chapter 32|12 pages

Towards the digital era

Adding value through ICT in the tourism industry