Abstract

Tourism, as a form of development rather than as a contribution to human welfare and a broadening of the leisure experience, is capable of becoming one of the principal polarising forces in the community. Its provocative image has been captured in the titles and subtitles of numerous publications: ‘the golden hordes’, ‘new kind of sugar’ and ‘vacationscape’ are just samples. Rosemary Wearing's attempt to determine local attitudes towards tourism development in a Victorian case study (Wearing 1981) and George Young's examination of tourism ‘saturation levels’ and host communities (Young 1973) seem not to have had the impact they should.

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