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Book cover for Tourism Community Relationships, a book by P.L. Pearce, G.M. Moscardo, G.F. Ross Book cover for Tourism Community Relationships, a book by P.L. Pearce, G.M. Moscardo, G.F. Ross

Tourism Community Relationships

1997 ᛫


Deals with the impacts tourism is having on communities internationally. This book reviews such impacts to investigate the origins, development and manifestations of community attitudes. It combines social-psychological, sociological, economic and media analyses and terms it a study within the specialism of tourism.

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Summary


The study of tourism is, arguably, ready for a thorough theoretical yet empirical analysis of the relationship between tourism and host communities. Pearce, Moscardo and Ross deal with the impacts tourism is having on communities internationally, going beyond a mere review of such impacts to investigate the origins, development and manifestations of community attitudes. A theoretical perspective is developed on how communities come to understand tourism and react to it. In terms of its disciplinary approaches the book combines social-psychological, sociological, economic and media analyses and can properly be termed a study within the new specialism of tourism. A number of yet-to-be-published studies of tourism and communities are reported on, and some large scale existing works on tourism and community reaction are reviewed and revisited.

Table of contents

  • Acknowledgements. Why do we need to understand and manage the tourism--community relationship? What are social representations? Social representations and the tourism--community relationship. Social representations in action: international examples. Social representations in action: Australian examples. Community participation in tourism planning. The future of the tourism--community relationship. References. Appendices.