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Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau

Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau

Hio Kuan Lai, Patrícia Pinto, Pedro Pintassilgo
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781799822240|ISBN10: 1799822249|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799822257|EISBN13: 9781799822264
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch005
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Lai, Hio Kuan, et al. "Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau." Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism, edited by Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida, et al., IGI Global, 2020, pp. 75-93. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch005

APA

Lai, H. K., Pinto, P., & Pintassilgo, P. (2020). Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau. In C. Ribeiro de Almeida, A. Quintano, M. Simancas, R. Huete, & Z. Breda (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism (pp. 75-93). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch005

Chicago

Lai, Hio Kuan, Patrícia Pinto, and Pedro Pintassilgo. "Overtourism: Impacts on Residents' Quality of Life – Evidence From Macau." In Handbook of Research on the Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Responses to Overtourism, edited by Cláudia Ribeiro de Almeida, et al., 75-93. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2224-0.ch005

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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.

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