The social and cultural impacts of tourism on the local community at Petra,Jordan.

Altwassi Madeleine Akef Mazin (2021) The social and cultural impacts of tourism on the local community at Petra,Jordan. Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism.

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Abstract

The local community's dissatisfaction with tourism may be damaging to tourism improvement and the stability of the tourism . Not only may the locals envy the tourists, but the locals who gain less tourism profit may become mad at the locals who gain great benefits from tourism. implementing good planning and management can help to decrease the local community dissatisfaction over the tourism industry and tourists. Of course, an effective plan, based on knowledge of local community response to the tourism impacts, how tourism affects the destination, and so on, is important. Researchers have also supported that it is necessary to know the local community’s perception and attitude during tourism planning (Wilkinson, 1976), which can allow the plan to go on without problems and that will maximize the benefits of tourism at the destination. 1.1 Aim The overall aim of this study is to identify the impact of tourism on the local community at Petra. and finally to put suggestions for sustainable tourism and to increase the awareness of the local community tourists and government of the social and cultural impacts of tourism on the locals . 1.2. Research Questions Question 1: How are the local community affected by the increasing number of tourists? Question 2: If they feel they have been negatively affected, what strategies to improve the interactions between the local community and tourists at Petra?

Institution

Budapest Business University

Kar

Faculty of Commerce, Catering and Tourism

Department

Turizmus Tanszék

Tudományterület/tudományág

UNSPECIFIED

Szak

Turizmus-menedzsment

Item Type: Thesis (UNSPECIFIED)
Uncontrolled Keywords: figures, localcommunity, locals, localspetra, tourism
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Date Deposited: 2021. Feb. 08. 14:12
Last Modified: 2021. Feb. 08. 14:12

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