A region in China that maintains separate legal, administrative and judicial systems from the rest of the country. There are two SARs in China - Hong Kong and Macau.
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Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau
Hio Kuan Lai (Faculty of Economics, University of Algarve, Portugal), Patrícia Pinto (Faculty of Economics, Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability, and Well-Being (CinTurs), University of Algarve, Portugal), and Pedro Pintassilgo (Faculty of Economics, CEFAGE, University of Algarve, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch005
Abstract
The concept of overtourism has been popularly discussed in recent years, upon local residents starting to recognize the tourism disturbances in some high-profile destinations. For a sustainable tourism development, it is crucial to investigate potential impacts of overtourism towards the local residents living in the destination. Thus, this chapter employs the existing academic work on quality of life (QoL) concepts, to examine the correlations between residents' perception of tourism's impact to them in material, community, emotional, and health & safety life domains, and their satisfaction with QoL in corresponding life domains, and their overall life satisfaction. This chapter involves a survey taken place in Macau, which represents a case of plausible overtourism. The research reveals that residents who perceived more negative impact from tourism on QoL, were more unsatisfied with QoL. Thus, tourism planners and policy makers should be aware of such threat on sustainable tourism development and search out a solution balancing different stakeholders in overtourism destinations.