Impact of Tourism

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outside the places where they normally live and work and their activities during their stay at these destinations; it includes movement for all purposes as well as day visits or excursions". In simple words travel and tourism is regarded as a break which is taken from the daily routine life and from the tiring obligation of family and work which results in an experience that contrasts with the everyday experience (Judd 2006).

In the last few decades, the world has gone through a series of problems that have affected its overall economy. For example, the shocks of 9/11, dual bombings of a major Asian tourism destination; Bali, threat of bird flu, SARS, the second Iraq war, Boxing Day Tsunami, the bombings on London and Madrid stations and the economic recession in 2008-2009. Such events led to a change in consumer behavior that had an impact on the travel patterns and operations around the world (Cooper et al. 2008). But in spite of such challenges, tourist did not stop ...

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are changing constantly. The experience that was satisfactory yesterday no longer satisfies the tourists today and this is all happening due to Globalisation, as it has intensified the competition between places (Judd 2006). Moreover, tourism is in a scenario that some specialists could name it as "paradigm shift" situation not far from the investment and social norms of globalization in general (Kuhn 1982 in Iordache et al. 2010). This is because traditional tourism resources, comparative advantages such as climate and culture become less important when compared to other tourism factors of competitiveness like strategic management of information, the intelligence ability of the teams ...

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