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Alternative Tourism as a Contestable Quality-of-Life Facilitator

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The formulation of alternative tourism as an ideal type in the 1980s implied various positive quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes, focused mainly on community empowerment. Evidence from farm-based tourism, volunteer tourism, and community-based ecotourism, however, indicates that expected QOL benefits are not always realized and that ideal-type characteristics may be an impeding factor. Transitional and transactional modes of alternative tourism, which attempt to incorporate the positive QOL effects of scale economies, are proposed as a more beneficial alternative to conventional alternative tourism.

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    Muzaffer Uysal

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    M. Joseph Sirgy

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Weaver, D. (2012). Alternative Tourism as a Contestable Quality-of-Life Facilitator. In: Uysal, M., Perdue, R., Sirgy, M. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2288-0_23

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