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A Geographic Analysis Of The Characteristics And Development Trends Of The Non-Metropolitan Tourist-Recreation Industry Of Southern Appalachia, Jeffrey Wayne Neff
A Geographic Analysis Of The Characteristics And Development Trends Of The Non-Metropolitan Tourist-Recreation Industry Of Southern Appalachia, Jeffrey Wayne Neff
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the significance of actual place-to-place structural and organizational differences within the non-metropolitan tourist-recreation industry of southern Appalachia and to discover how these differences affected the industry's development and growth in selected locations.
Eight countries with statistically important tourist industries were used as case study areas, so that spatial variation or uniformity in the industry's characteristics could be identified and examined. Those counties were: Rabun, Georgia; Graham, North Carolina; Jackson, North Carolina; Swain, North Carolina; Watauga, North Carolina; Clay, Tennessee; Sevier, Tennessee; and Bath, Virginia. Field investigation and subsequent distribution of questionnaires to …
The Changing Control Of Economic Activity In The Gatlinburg, Tennessee Area, 1930-1973, Jerome Eric Dobson
The Changing Control Of Economic Activity In The Gatlinburg, Tennessee Area, 1930-1973, Jerome Eric Dobson
Doctoral Dissertations
Among Government officials, planners, and citizens there is an almost universal belief that any economic growth will benefit the people of the area in which it occurs. This research tests that assumption through an analysis of resort development in the Gatlinburg, Tennessee area from 1930 to 1973. Its purpose is to investigate the processes of change accompanying rapid economic growth with a particular emphasis on how indigenous land owners and entrepreneurs have fared as participants in the economic system.
A geographic approach is employed to examine the processes which shape the economic character of the area and affect indigenous participation. …