Tourism, economic transition and ecosystem degradation
Interacting processes in a Tanzanian coastal community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5942485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gössling (0000-0001-9074-318X), Stefan Gößling (0000-0003-0505-9207, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 430-453 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tourism Geographies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-6688 • E-ISSN: 1470-1340 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/146166800110070504 |
| OpenAlex | W2069605136 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 12 |
In this article, tourism development in the village of Kiwengwa on the east coast of Unguja Island (Zanzibar), Tanzania is investigated. The results show that tourism has caused complex changes in the coastal community. Economically, local income has increased substantially, but tourism has also led to a focus on indi vidual benefit and dissolving kinship relationships, encouraged the abandonment of traditional resource-use strategies, contributed to the commodification of local natural resources, and spread the idea that these resources can be replaced with imports. Overall, tourism has fundamentally disrupted the local socioeconomic system and led to a self-reinforcing cycle of ecosystem degradation. Tourism devel opment is nevertheless perceived as sustainable because: (i) changes are complex and damage becomes perceptible only in the medium- or long-term future; (ii) the tourist industry tends to shift its impacts to remote areas, i.e. a supplying periphery; and (iii) the village has become a centre of resource allocation itself, with imports compensating for the losses in local ecosystem capacity
Business · Commodification · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Ecosystem · Ecotourism · Environmental degradation · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Exploitation of natural resources · Geography · Local community · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Resource (disambiguation · Sustainability · Tanzania · Tourism · Tourism geography · Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
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| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2023 (55) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |