...Sotiroula Liasidou; Christiana Stylianou; Galina Berjozkina; Zanete Garanti Purpose This paper aims to provide an understanding of residents' perceptions of how tourism activity in a rural area impacts their environment as well as their economic and social lives individually and as a community...

... residents consider that tourism brings significant economic benefits and supports the wider social and cultural development of the city, and they consider the overall impact of tourism to be beneficial. Practical implications The paper identifies potential issues and problems and possible mitigating...

... and Gossling (2015) in identifying six large-scale trends: effects of climate change, higher fuel costs, new technologies, the impact of growth in the BRIC countries, armed conflict and geopolitics and linkages and conflicts between tourism and conservation. These forces are both endogenous and exogenous...

...Jose Wing Pong But; John Ap Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the livelihood impacts, any inequalities and poverty consequences in the special administration region of Macao, following the liberalization of the gaming industry and the subsequent development of casino resorts...