Tourism Community Relationships

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.