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Building Social Capital to Enhance the Quality-of-Life of Destination Residents

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There has been growing recognition of the need to have better ways to analyse and understand the idea of ‘Quality-of-Life’ (QOL). One approach has been to see QOL as based on a range of different forms of capital. This chapter will argue that such an approach could be particularly valuable for assessing the relationships between tourism and the QOL of destination residents. It will focus specifically on destination residents and on one of the proposed forms of capital, social capital. After defining and describing social capital, the chapter will examine how tourism can affect the social capital of destination residents through a case study analysis before concluding with a discussion of how tourism could be used to build social capital.

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  1. School of Business, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia

    Gianna Moscardo

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  1. State University, Dept. Hospitality & Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &, Blacksburg, 24061, Virgin Islands, USA

    Muzaffer Uysal

  2. State University, Dept. Hospitality & Tourism Management, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &, Blacksburg, 24061, Virgin Islands, USA

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  3. Pamlin College of Business, Dept. Marketing, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Pamplin Hall 2025, Blacksburg, 24061-0236, Virgin Islands, USA

    M. Joseph Sirgy

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Moscardo, G. (2012). Building Social Capital to Enhance the Quality-of-Life of Destination Residents. 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_24

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