IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ecdequ/v7y1993i2p215-224.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Rural Tourism and Economic Development

Author

Listed:
  • Martha Frederick

    (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service)

Abstract

Tourism is a popular economic development strategy. The author reviews three diverse books that study tourism from various social science perspectives-economic, sociological, psychological, and anthropological. Ryan's book is multidisciplinary, in approach and covers all major topics of tourism study-economic, cultural, and environmental impacts; demand for tourism; tourist experience; and marketing. Michal Smith details the negative effects of tourism development in rural areas of the southeastern United States. Finally, Valene Smith's book presents international case studies that document cultural changes caused by tourism development. Despite their different focuses, all three books agree that tourism development has its benefits and costs and that changes to the destination areas are inevitable. Careful planning and marketing can lessen the harmful effects of tourism development.

Suggested Citation

  • Martha Frederick, 1993. "Rural Tourism and Economic Development," Economic Development Quarterly, , vol. 7(2), pages 215-224, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:7:y:1993:i:2:p:215-224
    DOI: 10.1177/089124249300700207
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/089124249300700207
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/089124249300700207?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dudensing, Rebekka M. & Hughes, David W. & Shields, Martin, 2011. "Perceptions of tourism promotion and business challenges: A survey-based comparison of tourism businesses and promotion organizations," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 1453-1462.
    2. Green, Gary Paul, 2001. "Amenities and Community Economic Development: Strategies for Sustainability," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 31(2), pages 1-15.
    3. Mastura Jaafar & Norjanah Bakri & S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, 2015. "Local Community and Tourism Development: A Study of Rural Mountainous Destinations," Modern Applied Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(8), pages 399-399, August.
    4. Jiaxing Cui & Ruihao Li & Lingyu Zhang & Ying Jing, 2021. "Spatially Illustrating Leisure Agriculture: Empirical Evidence from Picking Orchards in China," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-20, June.
    5. Jennifer C. H. MIN & Hsien-Hung KUNG & Tsangyao CHANG, 2019. "Testing the Structural Break of Taiwan Inbound Tourism Markets," Journal for Economic Forecasting, Institute for Economic Forecasting, vol. 0(2), pages 117-130, June.
    6. Andrew M. Isserman, 1993. "State Economic Development Policy and Practice in the United States: A Survey Article," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 16(1-2), pages 49-100, April.
    7. Paul M. Jakus & Paul B. Siegel, 1997. "The Effect of Individual and Community Attributes On Residents' Attitudes Toward Tourism-Based Development," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 27(1), pages 49-64, Summer.
    8. Ellingson, Lindsey & Seidl, Andrew F. & Mucklow, C.J., 2007. "Tourists' Value of Ranch Open Space Over Time: A Panel Data Estimation," 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon 10258, Western Agricultural Economics Association.
    9. Tisdell, Clement A. & Bandara, Ranjith, 2003. "Wildlife-based recreation and local economic development: The case of the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka," Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers 48965, University of Queensland, School of Economics.
    10. Marcouiller, David W. & Prey, Jeff, 2005. "The Tourism Supply Linkage: Recreational Sites and their Related Natural Amenities," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 35(1), pages 1-10.
    11. Paresh Kumar Narayan, 2005. "Testing the Unit Root Hypothesis When the Alternative is a Trend Break Stationary Process: An Application to Tourist Arrivals in Fiji," Tourism Economics, , vol. 11(3), pages 351-364, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:7:y:1993:i:2:p:215-224. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.