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On a sequence of population densities, the location of tourism industries seems to represent a bi-nodal pattern: on the one hand, tourism facilities tend to concentrate in the large urban centres and on the other hand they exhibit a tendency towards isolated and sparsely populated areas in the countryside or on small islands. However, while small islands tend to become crowded due to the influx of mass tourism (Benchley, 1982), the isolated environment of arid lands, still remains largely untapped.
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Krakover, S. (1985). Development of Tourism Resort Areas in Arid Regions. In: Gradus, Y. (eds) Desert Development. The GeoJournal Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5396-3_17
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