Overtourism

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Hio Kuan Lai ◽  
Patrícia Pinto ◽  
Pedro Pintassilgo
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Material Community ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Local Residents

The concept of overtourism has been popularly discussed in recent years, upon local residents starting to recognize the tourism disturbances in some high-profile destinations. For a sustainable tourism development, it is crucial to investigate potential impacts of overtourism towards the local residents living in the destination. Thus, this chapter employs the existing academic work on quality of life (QoL) concepts, to examine the correlations between residents' perception of tourism's impact to them in material, community, emotional, and health & safety life domains, and their satisfaction with QoL in corresponding life domains, and their overall life satisfaction. This chapter involves a survey taken place in Macau, which represents a case of plausible overtourism. The research reveals that residents who perceived more negative impact from tourism on QoL, were more unsatisfied with QoL. Thus, tourism planners and policy makers should be aware of such threat on sustainable tourism development and search out a solution balancing different stakeholders in overtourism destinations.

scholarly journals Tourism for sustainable development goals (SDGs) achievement in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Anowar Hossain Bhuiyan Bhuiyan ◽  
Md. Abud Darda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development

In line with the global goals for sustainable development (SDG goals), UNWTO has emphasized sustainable tourism development for achieving SDGs targets in the member countries. Bangladesh has already identified tourism as a thrust sector for the development of the country. The present study identifies the opportunities and contributions of tourism activities for achieving SDGs in Bangladesh. This study analyses the existing tourism policies and plans, government regulations, reports, and SDG related practices to attain the objectives. It is observed that SDG goals number 8, 12, and 14 are directly related to tourism. Furthermore, tourism can contribute to achieving some other SDG goals, like 3, 11, and 15. The study reveals that the contributions of tourism to GDP and employment are in an increasing trend. Sustainable Consumption and Production practices are encouraging the tourism businesses to include nature and biodiversity conservation in their management plans. Marine tourism development in the Bay-of-Bengal can play a positive role in reducing the negative impact of climate change and sustainable use of the oceans, seas, and marine resources. The study reveals that sustainable tourism development through cultural, religious, and archeological features can make Dhaka a stable and sustainable city. The study shows that sustainable tourism development in protected areas can ensure the preservation of forest areas, protect biodiversity conservation and provide sustainable use of natural resources. Sustainable tourism development can ensure long-term social, economic, and environmental benefits to all stakeholders to contribute a sustainable development in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals Determinants of Residents’ Support for Sustainable Tourism Development: Implications for Rural Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dunja Demirović Bajrami ◽  
Adriana Radosavac ◽  
Marija Cimbaljević ◽  
Tatiana N. Tretiakova ◽  
Yulia A. Syromiatnikova
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
The Republic

One of the key factors for success of sustainable tourism industry in all areas, including rural, is the support of community members. The paper aims to analyze how rural residents’ perceptions of sustainable tourism development (expressed through economic, social, environmental, and physical benefits) can affect residents’ intentions to support tourism. The second aim was to determine if attachment to the particular community and perceived quality of life can have influence on attitudes towards sustainable development of tourism in rural communities. Using a sample of 881 residents living in rural areas of the Republic of Serbia, the results highlighted that perceived values of tourism were important for evaluating how tourism is developed, if it is sustainable for a community, and how it affects quality of residents’ life. The study provided better understanding of factors that can have impact on residents’ attitudes in relation to tourism and highlighted the importance of paying attention to local community as significant player for tourism development, especially in those regions that want to boost its economy by developing sustainable tourism.

scholarly journals Researching the capacity of Hoi An ancient town in the policy-making for sustainable tourism development

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. first
Author(s):  
Hieu Minh Vo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Management Policies

Tourism carrying capacity is an important factor of sustainable tourism development policy for any destinations. Results from the capacity specifically forecast tourism impact on the destination's natural environment and also forecast the destination's life cycle. The focus of the article is to record the results from calculating the tourism capacity of Hoi An ancient town – a popular destination that has been overloaded recently. Based on Physical Carrying Capacity (PCC) and Effective Real Carrying Capacity (ERCC) and after eliminating the negative impact factor to ensure sustainable development, the maximum number of tourists permitted to visit Hoi An ancient town is 3.53 million per year. However, the number of tourists to Hoi An in 2019 was 5.35 million, surpassing the addressed limit of carrying capacity by 1.52 times. The author suggests a management policy with focus on (1) creating vacation time for the destination; (2) and redistributing key tourist markets for Hoi An ancient town. From the results of these two measures, the author gives some suggestions on management policies to restructure the tourist market in order to reduce the pressure on the carrying capacity of Hoi An ancient town and the heritage route in the Central of Viet Nam according to the goal of sustainable development.

Reflections on Research Paradigms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne Liburd ◽  
Deborah Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
Ways Of Being

The journey of Collaboration for Sustainable Tourism Development has aimed high by keeping heads in the clouds and feet on the ground, to visit critical and optimistic possibilities for what sustainable tourism development was, is, and may become. This chapter gives substance to the potential of collaboration for sustainable tourism development by indicating the significance of imagina- tion. Envisaging tourism futures implies that tourism researchers, students, practitioners, policy makers – all stakeholders – engender other kinds of relationships, interactions and conversations to imagine what could be. It is a feasible process of designing with as an ethical, ongoing involvement of others through a respect for their ways of being in the world, their sense of values and aspirations for better tourism futures in a better world. In this chapter, we do so by leveraging the variations of interpretation represented in the making of this book and the previous fourteen chapters. This book encompasses philosophical, conceptual and empirical research to expose conditions, empirical circumstances and underpinning values. The contributions meet in the application of the concept of collaboration to uncover what sustainable tourism development was, and presently is, and signposts how unknown futures can be imagined. Imagining collaborative tourism futures is predicated on epistemological and mutually shared responsibilities. These obligations cannot alone be captured by academics engaged in a persistent quest for knowledge, critical dialogue and thinking tourism into the future. Responsibilities are intimately connected to a holistic understanding of collaborative engagements with the wider world in shaping desirable futures. Imaginations of collaborative tourism futures are a response to current limitations of sustainable tourism development, where we charter the contours of tourism futures to tackle wider societal problems.

The Development of a Scale to Measure Tourism-Phobia

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Francisco Rejón-Guardia ◽  
Nataša Marković ◽  
María Antonia García-Sastre
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Balearic Islands ◽  
Continuous Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction

The Balearic Islands in general, and Majorca in particular play a significant role in Spanish tourism but the tremendous growth in the number of tourists has led to the deterioration of the environment, a notable decrease in tourist satisfaction, and is having a negative impact on the welfare of residents. Aversion to and rejection of tourism among residents is popularly called tourism-phobia. This chapter studies the negative aspects which over-tourism is causing in the perception of both native and foreign residents of Majorca, as well as to propose a scale developed to measure tourism-phobia. Data for the study was gathered through a questionnaire, with a total of 149 valid responses. An exploratory factor analysis revealed four main underlying dimensions of tourism-phobia encompassing a number of different variables. The aim is for the scale to be used as part of continuous analysis of sustainable tourism development in Majorca, as well as in other destinations saturated by tourism.

scholarly journals Community-Based Tourism: A Strategy for Sustainable Tourism Development of Patong Beach, Phuket Island, Thailand

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (27) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maythawin Polnyotee ◽  
Suwattana Thadaniti
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Local People ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development

<p>This study proposes community-based tourism as a strategy for sustainable tourism development of Patong Beach. Direct observation, questionnaire and interview are research instruments. A result of analyzing 120 questionnaires of local people which displayed a negative impact including economic impact which was very high )= 4.53(, social impact )= 4.28( and environmental impact) = 4.42( which were high so the total mean score was high )= 4.41(. The Community-Based Tourism was adapted for solution all negative impacts which were mentioned earlier. The sreategies are namely 1. Political development strategy: (1.1) Enabling the participation of local people, (1.2) Giving the power of the community over the outside and (1.3) Ensuring rights in natural resource management. 2. Environmental development strategy: (2.1) Studying the carrying capacity of the area, (2.2) Managing waste disposal and (2.3) Raising awareness of the need for conservation.3. Social development strategy: (3.1) Raising the quality of life, (3.2) Promoting community pride, (3.3) Dividing roles fairly between women/men, elder/youth and (3.4) Building community management organizations. 4. Cultural development strategy: (4.1) Encouraging respect for different cultures, (4.2) Fostering cultural exchange and (4.3) Embedding development in local culture and 5. Economic development strategy: (5.1) Raising funds for community development, (5.2) Creating jobs in tourism and (5.3) Raising the income of local people.<strong></strong></p>

scholarly journals Residents’ Attitudes toward Impacts of Tourism: A Case Study of Langkawi, Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurhazani Mohd. Shariff ◽  
Shaharuddin Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Residents Attitudes ◽  
Positive Impacts

This paper presents findings from a study that was undertaken to investigate residents’ attitudes toward the impacts of tourism in Langkawi Island, Malaysia. In order to gain reliable results for the use of Langkawi policy makers and tourism planners, a standardized instrument for measuring residents’ attitude was developed and used in the study. The findings revealed that residents tend to perceive impacts that benefit them as positive impacts of tourism. The findings also indicated that residents tend to perceive impacts of tourism, either positively or negatively depending on how much they would affect their personal lives. The more dependent they were on the positive impacts of tourism, the more supportive they were toward tourism development. Thus, the findings do not support Doxey’s Irridex Model. Finally, the study suggested that for a long-term purpose of achieving sustainable tourism development, Langkawi tourism planners and policy makers should conduct several campaigns and tourism workshops for the residents. Accordingly, this would gain residents support for tourism development on the island.  

scholarly journals Peran Modal Sosial dalam Pengembangan Desa Wisata Serangan Denpasar Bali

Media Wisata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-185
Author(s):  
I Gede Putra Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Conservation History

Serangan Village as a potential area is a representation of Denpasar City Government's policy on environmental conservation, history and cultural values, the interests of the world of education, and the interests of cultural tourism full of attractions. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of social capital in the development of sustainable tourism in Serangan Village and to analyze the influence of the role of government, community participation, and social capital on the quality of destinations and sustainable tourism development in Serangan Village. The results of this study are the role of social capital norms in Serangan Village has an important role in tourism development in Serangan Village, where norms in traditional villages in Serangan Village are still very strong.

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