This study analyzed changes in livelihoods before and after tourism development at Khwai, Mababe and Sankoyo villages in the Okavango Delta. Specifically, it analyzed how people interacted with species like giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) and thatching grass (Cymbopogon excavatus) before and after tourism development. This analysis was expected to measure the effectiveness of tourism development as a tool to improve livelihoods and conservation. The concept of social capital, sustainable livelihoods framework and the Community- Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) paradigm informed the study. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered through field-based research, using tools of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and key informant interviews. Results indicate that local customs and institutions at Khwai, Mababe and Sankoyo ensured the conservation of resources in pre-colonial Botswana. However, British colonial rule (1885-1966) affected traditional institutions of resource use hence the beginning of resource decline. The British colonial rule and the first 15-20 years after Botswana’s independence from British rule saw an increase in resource degradation. Results also indicate that since CBNRM began in the 1990s, tourism development has positive and negative effects on rural livelihoods. On the positive side, tourism development in some ways is achieving its goals of improved livelihoods and conservation. Residents’ attitudes towards tourism development and conservation have also become positive compared to a decade ago when these communities were not involved in tourism development. On the negative side, tourism is emerging as the single livelihood option causing either a decline or abandonment of traditional options like hunting and gathering and agricultural production. Reliance on tourism alone as a livelihood option is risky in the event of a global social, economic and political instability especially in countries where most tourists that visit the Okavango originate or in Botswana itself. There is need, therefore, for communities to diversify into domestic tourism and small-scale enterprises. On the overall, tourism development through CBNRM indicates that it is a viable tool to achieve improved livelihoods and conservation in the Okavango Delta.

With the dominance of service industry and the membership of WTO for Taiwan, the farming and fishing industries are facing fierce competition from globalization. Traditional agricultural society has thus largely perished, its population aged and young people moving to cities, productivity being low. Farming and fishing industries are no longer able to support livelihood of local communities. It is highly trumpeted for these industries to be transformed to leisure-purposed farming and fishing. Tourism is now almost seen as a panacea for the future. However, there are many problems. The current study uses a ¡¥mediocre¡¦ case of Shi-Tsao area of Tainan as an example, to study the normal pattern of development of traditional communities into tourism destinations. The research focuses on the issues that this area has faced, the ecological functions and environmental attributes of its coastal area, including the carrying capacity; an environmental analysis of the community is also executed. Adopting a qualitative approach, the research is based on in-depth interviews, literature evidence, and a case study of Tao-Mi Community. The purpose is to study the issues that Shi-Tsao faces during its transit to a new industry. SWOT analysis is used, and cross-analyses of the Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat are executed to find out the priorities of the related issues. Suggestions are given as how to make the transition more smooth and plausible. The ultimate purpose is to help understand the whole situation that Taiwanese rural area faces nowadays. The conclusions include issues in ecology, land use, investment and professional planning from outside and legal problems; it is also found that social and political issues such as resource distributions and partisan are detrimental to development.

Hosting mega events such as athletics and international exposition can brought huge tour business opportunities for the city and also accelerated constructing a modern infrastructure, even promoted a city rank into international fine reputation. Kaohsiung City becomes a host city of world games 2009 luckily which giving the city another transmutes the chance of growth. Kaohsiung City has natural condition to develop sightseeing and tourism, but attaches importance to industry and fishery development as principle over a long period of times. Although the development of light heavy industry has been bringing much employment opportunities for Kaohsiung City, the lack is molding tourism environment, modernizing city construction, internationalization, development of tourism support facilities and city cultural, and haven't had organization and programming of the tourism. The research first reviewed references including the strategic plans used in other countries and then proposed the important factors of tourism development and mega events. Next, it based on the proposal and used Delphi Method to achieve the common consensus of tourism strategy among the government, tourism industries, and the experts in order to develop the complete tourism strategy suitable for Kaohsiung City. The results reveal that the improvement in highest demand for the tourism in Kaohsiung is to integrate the service facilities, transportation services, and marketing individually and to establish cooperative relationship among them. In addition, the related tourism service systems should be well-qualified, enriched, and internationalized. It is also a crucial issue for Kaohsiung city to increase the amounts of visitors for overnight stay. Kaohsiung city government should cooperate with other nearby cities to develop local tour packages for attracting international tourists effectively.

This study focused on economic and environmental equity in tourism and recreation dependent communities in the U. S. In the economic equity section, research was conducted to do an empirical analysis of the income distribution in nonmetropolitan tourism and recreation dependent communities. In the environmental equity section, this study evaluated conceptual and theoretical understanding dealing with tourism and the environment and addressed the importance of environmental equity issues. A key objective of this study is to examine economic equity across different income groups and race in nonmetropolitan tourism and recreation dependent communities. By comparing economic equity between nonmetropolitan tourism and recreation dependent communities and other industry dependent nonmetropolitan communities, the differences of income inequality between those communities were explored. This study also assesses how tourism and recreation development contributes to economic equity in nonmetropolitan tourism and recreation communities in the U. S. In particular, determinants of income inequality were investigated. Income distribution of nonmetropolitan tourism and recreation dependent communities is more unequal than that of nonmetropolitan manufacturing dependent communities in the U. S. Tourism and recreation development contributes to increase income inequality while manufacturing related development is likely to reduce income inequality. The positive effect comes from the inequality of earnings in tourism and recreation employment. Race dualism shows a positive relationship with income inequality. This result suggests that the racial difference in income distribution plays an important role in increasing income inequality. There is a positive relationship between the south region and income inequality irrespective of community type and suggest that the regional variable is still an essential component for understanding income inequality in the U.S. This study addresses the need of an environmental justice framework for improving environmental equity across stakeholders in the process of tourism and recreation planning and development. Equity within/between social groups and inter and intra-generational equity should be taken into account for sustainable tourism and recreation development. The analytical framework for assessing environmental equity that this study suggested will be a good foundation for further development of environmental equity framework in the context with tourism and recreation development.

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This study employs tourism model as research framework to examine the of tourism development in Penghu. The study involves three objectives. The first objective is to assess the influence of the external environment (including political, economical, natural, technological, social, and culture aspect) on the tourism development of Penghu. The second objective is to discuss the government policies that facilitate the tourism development of Penghu and tourism investment with gaming industry from foreign countries. Due to the controversial nature of gaming industry, this study examines both its positive and negative impact for developing appropriate gaming managerial policy. The third objective is to develop Penghu¡¦s tourism marketing strategies by integrating related tourism services, activities and destinations for enhancing the tourism quality of Penghu. The integration will support Penghu to develop marketing strategies for proper utilize the tourism resources of Penghu. In order to achieve the above objectives, the study uses tourism model and focus group which includes tourism related government officials, public representatives, civil groups, tourism practitioners and scholars in Penghu to analyze the external environment, government¡¦s tourism policy and Penghu¡¦s tourism marketing strategies. The result of the study can be the references for the tourism development of Penghu. The findings of the study are as following: (1) political, economical, natural, technological, social, and culture external environment all possess strong influence to the tourism development of Penghu. Therefore, government officials and tourism practitioners should consider the influence of external environment for making tourism policies or marketing strategies. (2) Central government should coordinate with local government for effectively making and implementing tourism policy. (3) Tourism management and marketing strategy are critical to the success of tourism development of Penghu. The integration of tourism related services, activities and destinations can effectively utilize Penghu¡¦s tourism resources. At last, based on external environment, government policies, and tourism industry, this study develops expected tourism policies and marketing strategies for enhancing the tourism development of Penghu.

Over the past decade, Persian Gulf countries witnessed an increase in tourism development and the number of international tourists. Though tourism development plays an important role in enhancing economies, tourism development may conflict with the region's conservative traditions and culture. The purpose of this research is to identify the attitudes and perceptions of residents in the State of Qatar towards the impacts of tourism development by: 1) applying Ap & Crompton's (1998) Index of Tourism Impacts (ITI): measuring the physical/ecological/social or cultural environments, and the residents' acceptance of visitors, 2) by identifying resident attitudes as expressed on Qatari-based social networks, and 3) through personal observation of resident attitudes. Respondents were selected using a convenience sampling technique to complete a survey instrument. Non-intrusive personal observation was also carried out to observe the nature of host-guest interactions at local tourist areas. Material regarding resident attitudes towards tourism development published through local media and forums on local social networks were collected. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and independent t-tests were used to describe data and to better understand resident attitudes towards the ITI dimensions. Content analysis was used to analyze forum entries, and field note extracts of personal observations were also used to present observed behaviours of residents. Survey findings reveal that resident attitudes differed according to respondents' age, length of residence, and ethnicity, particularly with respect to perceptions of change in local services and natural environment. The content analysis of forums revealed mixed feelings by residents (primary expatriates) towards tourism development. An attitude typology was derived from resident attitudes expressed through forum entries. Attitudes ranged from “denying tourism's existence” to “encouraging tourism”. Field observation of behaviours also revealed mixed attitudes towards the presence and behaviours of tourists, where residents either “accepted tourism” or “disapproved tourism”. Results suggested further research be carried out in testing the attitude typology in countries within the same region, and to modify the belief scale items and dimensions.

Pagrindinė disertacijoje nagrinėjama sritis – turizmo vystymasis Pabaltijo šalyse. Ypatingas dėmesys buvo skirtas Lietuvos turizmo perspektyvoms. Dėl ypatingos Pabaltijo regiono geografinės padėties pajūrio turizmas čia ypač svarbus, todėl turizmo produktų kūrimo galimybes lemia geopolitinė šalies padėtis. Remiantis šiuo požiūriu, Lietuva yra tranzitinė šalis, esanti tarp Vakarų Europos ir Nepriklausomų Valstybių Sandraugos šalių. Lietuva taip pat svarbi kaip transporto koridorius tarp Šiaurės ir Pietų dėl ją kertančių dviejų didelių autostradų („VIA Baltica“ ir „VIA Hanziatica“). Geografinė Lietuvos padėtis ir iki šių dienų sukurta turizmo ūkio infrastruktūra sudaro palankias sąlygas turizmo plėtrai, o ypač atvykstamajam turizmui. Ši tezė ir buvo tiriamojo darbo tikslų ir uždavinių pagrindinė sąlyga. / The goal of the thesis – to unroll the key characteristics of the functioning of tourism system and tourism development of the BALTIC TOURISM INDUSTRY, especially in the coastal region of Lithuania, based on theoretical and empirical research; to identify and assess the quality level of the product or services currently on supply by Lithuanian enterprises as well as investigating opportunities and prospects of further development of Lithuania‘s tourism with the focus on the Baltic coastal region.

The Himalayan region of India is experiencing rapid development in tourism, agriculture, highway construction and hydroelectric development. This research describes and evaluates the role of public participation in tourism development projects in these high mountain environments, using the proposed Himalayan Ski Village (HSV) development in Manali as a case study. Qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews, document reviews and participant observation revealed that there have been formal and informal opportunities for public participation in project development. The findings suggest that local people have been involved in project development activities, such as training for skiing, but not in the decision-making process related to the project. The majority of the participation activities were, in fact, instigated by the public including activities such as protests and court challenges. The findings also show that involvement in the participatory activities undertaken by the public and project proponent fostered instrumental and communicative learning outcomes.

The Himalayan region of India is experiencing rapid development in tourism, agriculture, highway construction and hydroelectric development. This research describes and evaluates the role of public participation in tourism development projects in these high mountain environments, using the proposed Himalayan Ski Village (HSV) development in Manali as a case study. Qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews, document reviews and participant observation revealed that there have been formal and informal opportunities for public participation in project development. The findings suggest that local people have been involved in project development activities, such as training for skiing, but not in the decision-making process related to the project. The majority of the participation activities were, in fact, instigated by the public including activities such as protests and court challenges. The findings also show that involvement in the participatory activities undertaken by the public and project proponent fostered instrumental and communicative learning outcomes.