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Abstract(s)
Tourism is a socio-cultural phenomenon that has intensified with
technological development and with the advancement of communication and
transport systems. However, the increase in the number of people moving
around the world does not necessarily represent success or tourist access, but it
can mostly serve more immediate marketing interests.
Since tourism is considered a phenomenon, the sociological interest to study
it arises. Tourist practice is an educational process, a learning process, which is
established through the relationship between visitors and residents and their
cultural backgrounds. Several authors dedicate their studies to this field, and
several are also those who try to understand the relations between tourists and
the residents in the host region. The purpose of this work is to review the
scientific literature that is focused on the sociology of tourism as a subject to
study the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism on societies
and residents and how residents perceived the benefits and costs of tourism
developments in the local community. Review of literature suggests that interactions between visitors and the host community can lead to short and long term
positive and negative social-cultural, economic and environmental impacts on
destinations.
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Keywords
Sociology of tourism Socio-cultural impacts Economic impact Host community Development
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Publisher
Springer