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The Impacts Of Tourism On Space And Place In Jonesborough, Tennessee, Elizabeth E. Van Horn
The Impacts Of Tourism On Space And Place In Jonesborough, Tennessee, Elizabeth E. Van Horn
Masters Theses
Small towns have increasingly begun to look to tourism as a means of promoting economic growth and development. While the positive economic impacts of tourism development have been widely recognized, the sociocultural impacts (which are often negative) have traditionally been overlooked. The transformation of sense of place for residents of small towns represents one of the many sociocultural impacts essential to the understanding of tourism's overall impact. Transformation of sense of place has been largely disregarded as a consideration in tourism development (and other development strategies), but the alteration of sense of place should be included in the evaluation of …