Mountain landscapes provide a variety of cultural ecosystem services (CES), but recent
developments such as land-use and climate changes, population growth or urbanization …

As the support of host communities is a precondition for a sustainable industry, regional
social impact studies are a crucial input to tourism planning and decision‐making. This study …

The mutual gaze enacts both hosts and guests. This paper expands the literature relating to
the impact perspective of backpacker tourism. It investigates how hosts and backpackers …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate residents' perceptions of
social impacts from co‐hosting the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship (WMHC09) in …

The main purpose of this study is to reveal the present knowledge on situation of tourism-
oriented acculturation studies vs. main acculturation literature. More specifically it is aimed to …

The systemic dynamics of cultural identity accounts for the uniqueness of places and their
people and has become the driving force for the development of communities both in highly …

This paper examines a range of issues that are affecting the use of heritage and cultural
resources in the Asia Pacific region as tourism resources. The temptation for communities to …

Coastal tourism development can appropriately contribute to the livelihood of the
community. To date, few studies have been conducted on the impacts of tourism …

Lack of understanding of the ways local subpopulations perceive various changes
associated with rapid growth of the tourism industry may lead to unsustainable development …

Recognition of the interrelationships between the global loss of nature and collapse of rural
communities is essential. Compartmentalising or ignoring the diversity of stakeholder …