PRTM 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: World Trade Organization, Travel Promotion Act Of 2009, Greenville, South Carolina

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The value of tourism (knopf, 1991): enriching personal life quality through the provision of life transforming experiences. Building community life quality and promoing interacion between people. Breathing new life into rural and urban economies. Maximizing organizaional resourcefulness and entrepreneurism in meeing human needs. Taxaion without representaion, don"t have to have representaion when you tax tourists. Naives vs. neonaives, people that live there versus the new people that move there. Pro poor tourism: making sure wealth is shared across the board. Poverty alleviaion, crisis management, protecing children from sexual harassment. Posiive impacts of tourism: economic(jobs, businesses, taxes revenues), socio-cultural (protecion/promoion of local culture), environmental (protecion of unique natural areas), Negaive factors of tourism: externaliies (polluion, traic, exhaust, carbon, climate change, global warming). Economic (seasonal, low paying & unskilled jobs), socio-cultural (antagonism between hosts & guests), environmental (polluion, overcrowding, sprawl), poliical (facions, conlicts, turnover) Who"s out there? (jafari, 2001): advocacy plaform (tourism businesses and desinaion.

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