The overall aim of the Tourism Impacts research project is to develop new methods, models, and recommendations for tourism research and practice in order to explore the impacts of tourism development on residents’ quality of life, health, and well-being.
The specific project objectives are:
- To conceptualize the main impacts of tourism development.
- To develop and validate new metrics of tourism impacts based on integrating the primary and secondary data.
- To analyze the effects of tourism development on residents’ quality of life, health, and well-being.
- To classify tourist destinations based on their impacts on residents’ quality of life, health, and well-being.
- To develop recommendations for tourism research, statistics, and governance at each type of tourist destination.
- To widely disseminate project results and build collaborations with tourism stakeholders.
Collaboration
We are interested in collaborating with international tourism researchers, governments, destination management organizations, and other tourism stakeholders.
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