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Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism ManagementSustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism

Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: Sustainability... [The purpose of this study is to develop indicators to measure community tourism developmentcommunity tourism development within a sustainable framework. In order to develop such objective indicators, this study employed a modified Delphi techniqueResearch MethodsDelphi technique. A panel of 38 academic researchers in tourism provided input into developing the indicators. After three rounds of discussion, the panel members reached consensus on the following set of 125 indicators: political (32), social (28), ecological (25), economic (24), technological (3), and cultural dimensions (13) for community tourism development (Table 7.1). This set of sustainable tourism indicators can serve as a starting point for devising a set of indicators at the local and regional level.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism ManagementSustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism

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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-90-481-9860-3
Pages
115 –140
DOI
10.1007/978-90-481-9861-0_7
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Abstract

[The purpose of this study is to develop indicators to measure community tourism developmentcommunity tourism development within a sustainable framework. In order to develop such objective indicators, this study employed a modified Delphi techniqueResearch MethodsDelphi technique. A panel of 38 academic researchers in tourism provided input into developing the indicators. After three rounds of discussion, the panel members reached consensus on the following set of 125 indicators: political (32), social (28), ecological (25), economic (24), technological (3), and cultural dimensions (13) for community tourism development (Table 7.1). This set of sustainable tourism indicators can serve as a starting point for devising a set of indicators at the local and regional level.]

Published: Nov 20, 2010

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Panel Member; Tourism Development; Cultural Resource; Host Community

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