Tourism Carrying Capacity: Tempting Fantasy or Useful Reality?

By S. McCool, D. Lime. 2001

469 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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In Social Psychology

1. M. Hughes
2. Zhenhua Liu
3. B. B. Boley
4. T. Lee
5. Fen‐Hauh Jan

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Kir Kuščer
2. M. Strzelecka
3. Celina Strzelecka
4. M. Hughes
5. Zhenhua Liu
6. Jim Macbeth
7. T. Mihalič
8. B. B. Boley

In Transportation

1. Zhenhua Liu
2. T. Mihalič
3. B. B. Boley
4. Antonello Romano
5. Filippo Celata

Citations in the corpus

• Is Overtourism Overused? Understanding the Impact of Tourism in a City Context (2018, background): “The main issue is its focus on tourism numbers, which brings with it that negative effects are equated with mass tourism or increasing visitor numbers [14].”
• Picking up litter: an application of theory-based communication to influence tourist behaviour in protected areas (2010, background): “There is abundant research to show that all types of recreational activity can cause environmental degradation, even at low use levels ( Hammitt & Cole, 1998 ; Liddle, 1997 ), and that visitor behaviour and visitor density levels can influence the quality of the visitor experience ( Manning, 2007 ;”
• Empowerment and resident support for tourism in rural Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the case of Pomerania, Poland (2017, background): “…by it, through increased economic opportunity, preservation of the local community’s cultural and natural heritage, and an enhanced quality of life” (McCool & Lime, 2001, p. 385) The sustainable tourism literature takes this emphasis on economic development a step further and asserts that…”
• Residents’ Attitudes towards Overtourism from the Perspective of Tourism Impacts and Cooperation–The Case of Ljubljana (2019, background): “Numerous tourism ‘kinds’ and concepts have been developed to address tourism’s negative impacts almost 50 years ago; such as the book titled Tourism, Blessing or Blight [6], Doxey’s irritation index [7], Butler’s destination life cycle [8], tourism social costs to destinations [9], limits of accepta”
• Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique (2003, background): “Therefore, the primary question underlying carrying capacity should not be ‘howmany is toomany?’ but rather determining howmany changes to environmental conditions are acceptable given the development objectives of a destination (McCool & Lime, 2001).”
• Conceptualizing yield: Sustainable Tourism Management (2006, background): “At a certain point, changes to the resource pool may fall short of or exceed the limits defined by stakeholders (Bosselman, Peterson and McCarthy 1999; McCool and Lime 2001).”