Tourism Community Relationships

• Acknowledgements. Why do we need to understand and manage the tourism--community relationship? What are social representations? Social representations and the tourism--community relationship. Social representations in action: international examples. Social representations in action: Australian examples. Community participation in tourism planning. The future of the tourism--community relationship. References. Appendices.

Jim Macbeth, Murdoch University, Australia ...There is a substantial review of tourism research (along with a useful appendix of sources). Importantly, the authors emphasize "the need for researchers...to understand the reality of tourism for host communities. While the book is fully at home in social psychology, important links are made to sociological theoretical perspectives, although post modern sociology does not figure in this analysis. Annals of Tourism Research Shalini Singh ...This monograph presents an intellectual and neat collage of the three disciplines of sociology, psychology and anthropology in the context of (community) tourism. Tourism Recreation Research