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?Without an early warning system in place, island decision-makers rush
to embrace the varied economic benefits of tourism but fail to
anticipate the destructive intrusions of mass tourism practice: in
particular, how the interplay of inadequate facility, infrastructure,
and amenity planning and management, with the high-volume propensity
of capital-intensive travel interests, tends to cumulatively overrun
the delicate insular
carrying capacity.?
?THE IMPACT OF TOURISM IN SMALL ISLANDS: A GLOBAL COMPARISON?
http://egis.cefe.cnrs-mop.fr/Tourism%20Frontpages/mcelroy%20article.htm
?The regions? dependence on Tourism continues to grow as other
traditional productive sectors such as export agriculture and
manufacturing industries, now facing an end to trade preferences and
special pricing arrangements, continue to struggle against tough
external competition. However, tourism has faced many challenges even
before September 11th, 2001. These have included increased competition
from our traditional tourist generating markets of the USA, Canada and
Europe, who are encouraging their nationals to go visit and explore
their own tourism products. The tourism promotion budgets for inbound
and domestic travel of our major source markets have been increased in
recent years to levels which small developing states are unable to
compete with. Furthermore, the process of globalization, accelerated
by technological advances, has also reinforced the growth of
consolidation among every component of the major tourism service
suppliers with which the Caribbean and the world must do business.
These include airlines, cruise lines, tour operators, Computer
Reservation Systems (CRS) and Global Distribution Systems (GDS),
Electronic Travel Agencies, etc. This development has helped to
marginalize the Caribbean?s efforts, and those of other small
developing states, as they seek to negotiate the best deals with
tourism suppliers.?
?REDEFINING TOURISM AS AN EXPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY?
http://www.intracen.org/execforum/ef2004/Trinidad_Tobago/TT-04-Miller.pdf
?While the tourism industry in North America, Europe, and some
countries in Asia may simply represent added value for their economic
development, the same is not true for many of the world?s smaller
economies. As the latter?s trade preferences in the developed world
are eroded and profitable sectors such as the offshore financial
services industry (in the Caribbean and elsewhere) come under attack
from agencies in developed countries, there is nothing left but
tourism. It is the future. Consequently, there is heightened concern
among industry stakeholders in smaller economies about the need for
the sustainable development and growth of tourism ? the major currency
and foreign exchange earner.?
?CARIBBEAN TOURISM : IGNITING THE ENGINES OF SUSTAINABLE GROWTH?
http://www.miami.edu/nsc/publications/pub-ap-pdf/52AP.pdf
?The purpose of this pilot study is to understand the economic impact
and institutional dynamics of small and medium sized tourism and
hospitality enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries and through
this, the ability of these businesses to contribute to the economic
development of emerging economies. While tourism sector impact has
been conducted extensively in prior literature, this area of research
remains fragmented in context of a clear purpose of the studies, use
of varying methodologies, unclear sources of data, and blurred links
with decision making for government and private sector stakeholders.
This study focuses on SMEs in the hotel and restaurant sector and uses
the tourism satellite account (TSA) framework to assess economic
impact and evaluate the sector and national institutional policies.?
?Economic Impact and Institutional Dynamics of Small and Medium Sized
Tourism Enterprises in Developing Countries ? Evidence from Tanzania?
http://www.vpundergraduate.iastate.edu/CIPsharma.pdf
?Is Tourism a key sector in Tanzania? Input-output analysis of income,
output, employment and tax revenue?
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~lizng/ttri/Pdf/2001_1.pdf
?For many years, tourism experts have sought to develop viable
alternatives to mass tourism, to at least mitigate the negative
impacts on society and the environment in destinations. Some
communities, resisting development impositions on their lives, have
also experimented with small-scale, locally controlled and sustainable
tourism activities on their own. Yet, all these initiatives have
certainly not posed a real challenge to the status quo.?
?ECO-TOURISM: AN ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC TRAP FOR THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES?
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/cbd.htm
?GLOBALISATION and tourism have become a deadly mix for indigenous
peoples. Tourism's impact on indigenous peoples' way of life and on
their control of and access to their resources and environment has
become more pronounced with globalisation of the world economy.?
?Globalisation and tourism: Deadly mix for indigenous peoples?
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/chavez-cn.htm
?Tourism has made a significant contribution to the socio-economic
development of many Pacific island countries. At the same time,
national governments and the tourism industry have become more aware
that they must carefully consider how to maintain an intricate balance
between the positive impact of tourism and the possible negative
effects that can upset plans and goals of sustainability.?
With these points in mind, some Pacific island countries have
considered that ecotourism could provide considerable opportunities
for future development in ways that highlight their diverse cultural
heritage, abundant natural resources and unspoiled environment.
Community-based ecotourism could also be a useful tool for enhancing
the standard of living of local people as long as there is proper
planning and management. Effective conservation and protection of the
environment is needed in order to sustain ecotourism. With an emphasis
on ecotourism, it is clear that a nation?s tourism sector should not
be merely a user of natural environment, but should also contribute to
its preservation.?
?ECOTOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS?
http://www.unescap.org/ttdw/Publications/TPTS_pubs/Toreview_No23_2300.pdf
?TOURISM IN ISLANDS AND SMALL STATES?
http://learning.unl.ac.uk/le319/wk%2011%20DH%20OHTs.htm
?Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as
the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist
arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard
deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating
variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly
tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated events.
There are timevarying effects related to SITEs, such as natural
disasters, ethnic conflicts, crime, the threat of terrorism, and
business cycles in tourist source countries, among others, which cause
variations in monthly international tourist arrivals. In this paper,
we show how the generalised autoregressive conditional
heteroscedasticity (GARCH) model can be used to measure the
conditional volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals to
six SITEs, namely Barbados, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji, Maldives and
Seychelles, and to appraise the implications of conditional volatility
of SITEs for modelling tourist arrivals.?
?Volatility in International Tourism Demand for Small Island Tourism Economies?
http://www.iemss.org/iemss2004/pdf/ecotourism/sharvola.pdf
?BVI Tourism Survey?
http://dpu.gov.vg/Archives/Tourism/TourismSurvey.htm
?Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing fascination
within public and academic circles about the livelihood of islands
with small populations and territory which are present in each of the
world?s great oceans. The Small Island Tourism Economies analysed in
this paper vary profoundly in their size, land area, and location.
Moreover, they have depended heavily on financial aid from their
former colonists for infrastructure development, which has declined
dramatically since the collapse of Communism. These economies also
differ in their narrow natural resource bases on land and in water, in
their prospects for self reliance in economic development, and their
overwhelming reliance on tourism as a source of exports.?
?Country Risk Ratings of Small Island Tourism Economies?
http://www.feem.it/NR/rdonlyres/D97DEFB8-0728-4D95-A134-387FAFBF2722/1056/2504.pdf
?This study develops the Tourism Penetration Index and applies it to
51 islands. The results confirm the most penetrated comprise
Caribbean, Mediterranean and Northern Pacific islands typified by
large resorts, crowding, short stays and the replacement of man-made
attractions for lost amenities. The least penetrated islands comprise
mainly Pacific and Indian Ocean destinations characterized by small
facilities, long stays, and limited infrastructure. The intermediate
islands primarily fall into two groups: Caribbean islands advancing to
the high-density stage, and other destinations experiencing rapid
growth and resource conflicts. The study concludes with planning
implications and suggestions for further research.?
?Tourism Development in Small Islands Across the World?
http://www.saintmarys.edu/~jmcelroy/WD-McElroy2-revised.htm
?International tourism is today one of the most important tradable
sectors, with expenditure on tourist goods and services representing
some 8% of total world export receipts and 5% of world GDP.
Cross-country data for 1985-95 on tourism specialisation and economic
growth reveal the following regularities: (i) many tourism countries
have grown faster compared to the other countries; and (ii) they are
small. We use a two-sector endogenous growth model to obtain
explanatory hypotheses about these two findings. In particular, we
define the conditions required for small countries to specialise in
tourism and to enter the faster growth path.?
?WHY ARE TOURISM COUNTRIES SMALL AND FAST-GROWING??
http://www.crenos.it/crenos/PDF/99-6.pdf
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