The Relationship Between Tourism And Tourism In Tourism

Once a community becomes a destination, the lives of residents in the community are affected by tourism, and the support of the entire population in the tourism community is essential for the development, planning, successful operation and sustainability of tourism (Jurowski, 1994). When tourists feel that they are welcome by the host community, they are more likely to return and recommend the destination to others. The relationship between residents and foreign tourists is created by the ratio between the behaviour of foreign tourists in the tourist destination and the way local people perceive this behaviour. How the local people perceive the behaviour of foreign tourists, and evaluate it as positive or negative, is determined primarily by

Wall and Mathieson (2006) defined tourism as “the study of people away from their usual habitat, of the establishment which responds to the requirement of travellers and of the impacts that they have on the economic, physical and social wellbeing of their host”. This definition recognizes the key players in the industry as tourists (people who travel out of their usual place of residence), tourism industry (establishments that responds to the needs of travellers), impacts (economic, environmental, social and cultural) and the host community whose tourism resource the tourist have come to enjoy. Moreover, the community a tourist visits is often termed the host community. Cook et al., (2006), defines the host community as towns or cities that welcome visitors and provide them with the desired services. Smith (2001) also defines host communities as people who live in the vicinity of the tourist attraction and are either directly or indirectly involved with, and/or affected by the tourism activities. Tourism involves some elements of interaction between the tourist and the destination

At community levels, tourism offers opportunities for direct, indirect, and induced employment and income, spurring regional and local economic development (Aref, 2010). Tourism usually involves some elements of contact among the tourist and the destination environment. The consequences of these interactions are often referred to as the impacts/ effect of tourism. Most people think of tourism in terms of economic impacts, jobs and taxes. However, Kreag (2001) claims that the range of impacts from tourism is broad and often influences areas beyond those commonly associated with tourism. Leaders as well as residents who understand the potential impacts of tourism can integrate this industry into their community in the most positive way. The impacts of tourism can be sorted into several categories, the most common ones are; economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts (Cook et al., 2006). Each of these categories includes positive and negative impacts. Recent studies indicate that tourism as a factor of change can affect traditional family values (Kousis, 1989), cause cultural commercialization (Cohen, 1988), increase the crime rate (Nicholls, 1976), and lead to negative elements such as prostitution (Cohen, 1988), and gambling (Pizam and Pokela, 1985). According to Peake (1989), before