Living with Tourists

The first in a 2 part documentary series entitled Living with Tourists was aired yesterday on BBC World Service radio station; Ros Atkins travelled back to the three places where he grew up, to explore the relationship between tourist and host. If you missed this, it can be heard again here. Part 2 airs at 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 8pm on Wednesday 14 April.

There's also an article which discusses the documentary ...

Where can I find...? Host-Guest Relationships

If you are currently researching the host-guest relationship, you will find many relevant resources and to help you along, I've listed some of them here. In the Library, useful titles include:

• Tourism: economic physical and social impacts (911.22 MAT)
• World tourism leaders meeting on the social impacts of tourism (911.92599 WTO)
• The economic impact of tourism (911 TOU)
• Hosts and Guests (911.301 SMI)

Similarly, there is a plenty of information to be found online; if you're after journal articles, Sciencedirect, Emerald and Sage will give good results. And don't forget ebooks - ' Economics of tourism destinations', 'Tourism area life cycle' and 'Tourism, globalisation and cultural change' which looks at how tourism can change a host community, can be read online at EBLibrary.

A good illustration of Doxey's Irridex model is given here and an article entitled 'A Framework for Monitoring Community Impacts of Tourism' (Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 1997, vol. 5, no. 1) which can be accessed in Multilingual Matters (articles accessible on-campus only, no login required). Please remember, I haven't included every possible source, but hopefully this'll be a start.