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Tourism Planning: What To Consider In Tourism Plan Making - 1998 APA Proceedings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Most planners are aware of the global magnitude of tourism as an economic activity, but few recognize the urgency that exists in the world of the 1990's and beyond to bring planning processes-public participation, distributive cost benefit analysis, strategic analysis and action planning-to tourism development. |
 | | To many local residents, tourism is a paradoxical, good and evil, uninvited monster that has descended into their communities bringing, in the best cases, economic benefit, but often it is at the cost of social disruption and stress on infrastructure and the environment. |
 | | In quantitative terms, a tourist, and thus tourism, is usually defined as a person who travels for non-business reasons more than 50 miles from and overnights away from her usual place of residence. |
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