Conceptualising State‐Controlled Resort Islands for an Environment‐Friendly Development of Tourism
The Maldivian Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20153779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manfred Domroes (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-137 |
| Publication date | 2001-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9493.00098 |
| OpenAlex | W1969964490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
The Maldives host a sophisticated and competitive international tourist industry which has replaced fishing as the dominant economic activity. With their rich tropical reef ecosystems and the abundant biodiversity of their marine environment, a total of 86 uninhabited islands had been converted into Resort Islands by the end of 2000. Resort Islands are equipped with comprehensive facilities for accommodation, food, recreation and leisure. They are also strictly reserved for foreign tourists and guarantee complete privacy. This gives the benefit of averting conflicts of acculturation with local islanders. In the arena of impacts on the physical environment, however, the consumptive leisure lifestyle of the tourists has been harmful to the Resort Islands as seen in sewage, garbage and waste pollution, as well as reef destruction and beach erosion. While the government of the Maldives takes great effort to harmonise tourism and the environment, the growth of mass tourism in the last 20 years has engendered grave environmental impacts. For future sustainable development of the Resort Islands , the tourists' environmental awareness must be increased to promote greater responsibility for the protection of the fragile coral and reef ecosystems of the Maldives
Business · Coral reef · Ecotourism · Environmental degradation · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Fishery · Garbage · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Recreation · Sustainability · Tourism · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Ecology · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
Sport and Tourism
Política, religião e gênero nas Ilhas Maldivas
Island destination workforce development and inclusion
Rethinking tourism conflict potential within and between groups using participatory mapping
Environmental management in the absence of participation
The challenge of solid waste on Small Islands
Deviant leisure
The challenge of sustainable tourism development in the Maldives
Environmental harm and environmental victims
Representations of Islam in Official Tourism Promotion
Tourists’ reviews of weather in five Indian Ocean islands
Islamic tourism and managing tourism development in Islamic societies
Not quite paradise
Core–periphery relationships and the sustainability paradox of small island tourism
Human Resource Policies
Human Resource Issues in a Small Island Setting The Case of the Maldivian Tourism Industry
Competing industries in islands a new tourism approach
Tourism and Poverty Reduction
Linkages between tourist resorts, local food production and the sustainable development goals
Islands within Islands?' The Maldivian resort, between segregation and integration
No change from climate change
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |