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Tourism-Specific Quality-of-Life Index: The Budapest Model

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Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series ((SINS,volume 43))

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Tourism is a complex industry. It provides employment opportunities and tax revenues and supports economic diversity. It has very different impacts, both positive and negative, or even mixed ones. However, from a national, regional or local planning point of view, tourism should support the development of the quality of life of citizens too. If the implications of tourism have mainly negative impacts on the local community and environment, citizens will not support tourism and will not welcome visitors. This could mean a sad end to a destination.

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The authors would like to thank the Hungarian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for their permission to publish the data from this research which they funded.

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    László Puczkó & Melanie Smith

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Puczkó, L., Smith, M. (2011). Tourism-Specific Quality-of-Life Index: The Budapest Model . In: Budruk, M., Phillips, R. (eds) Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9861-0_9

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