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ORIGINAL PAPER
Tourism vs well-being of hosting communities – gaps and challenges
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Durban University of Technology, Faculty of Management Sciences, Durban, South Africa
Submission date: 2024-03-09
Final revision date: 2024-07-16
Acceptance date: 2024-07-22
Publication date: 2024-09-22
Corresponding author
Anna Dłużewska
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
JoMS 2024;58(4):138-155
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ABSTRACT
Objectives:
identifying the most important concepts that can be used in research on the well-being of reception communities in tourist destinations, ii) identifying the most important threats and challenges to the well-being of reception communities in the light of the indicated concepts.
Material and methods:
The article is of a theoretical nature. It is based on academic literature from various disciplines and on program documents published by leading international organizations.
Results:
In the light of economic sciences (where well-being refers to objective indicators), the most important dysfunctions (threats to the well-being of reception communities) include the leakage of capital outside the destination (tourism as neo-colonialism), deepening disproportions in regional development, deepening social disproportions, and even an increase poverty. This even applies to the so-called tourist powers (Maldives, Seychelles) In the light of social and psychological sciences (objective and subjective indicators), the challenge is different patterns of well-being in different cultural areas, a change in the point of reference for comparison (tourists) - hedonic concepts, normal when determining one's own position, a lower sense of agency, local ties and other factors mentioned in eudaimoic concepts.
Conclusions:
Well-being is a state to which we all strive and which we have the right to achieve. Host communities of tourist destinations also have the right to well-being. This fits into the ideology of sustainable development. For tourism to have a positive impact on the well-being of host communities, it is definitely necessary to take into account a wider range of concepts regarding the mechanisms of well-being, including subjective well-being, in tourism development strategies.
identifying the most important concepts that can be used in research on the well-being of reception communities in tourist destinations, ii) identifying the most important threats and challenges to the well-being of reception communities in the light of the indicated concepts.
Material and methods:
The article is of a theoretical nature. It is based on academic literature from various disciplines and on program documents published by leading international organizations.
Results:
In the light of economic sciences (where well-being refers to objective indicators), the most important dysfunctions (threats to the well-being of reception communities) include the leakage of capital outside the destination (tourism as neo-colonialism), deepening disproportions in regional development, deepening social disproportions, and even an increase poverty. This even applies to the so-called tourist powers (Maldives, Seychelles) In the light of social and psychological sciences (objective and subjective indicators), the challenge is different patterns of well-being in different cultural areas, a change in the point of reference for comparison (tourists) - hedonic concepts, normal when determining one's own position, a lower sense of agency, local ties and other factors mentioned in eudaimoic concepts.
Conclusions:
Well-being is a state to which we all strive and which we have the right to achieve. Host communities of tourist destinations also have the right to well-being. This fits into the ideology of sustainable development. For tourism to have a positive impact on the well-being of host communities, it is definitely necessary to take into account a wider range of concepts regarding the mechanisms of well-being, including subjective well-being, in tourism development strategies.
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