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Quantitative assessment of stakeholder perceptions for tourism development

  • Ram Ramanathan
    ,
  • Geetha Subramanian
    ,
  • Dipak Chaudhuri
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Abstract

Tourism development has both positive and negative impacts on an economy. Various studies have attempted to capture these impacts using sophisticated quantitative modelling tools such as input-output models or computable general equilibrium models. Other studies have been designed to understand the perceptions of stakeholders. These studies are essentially descriptive and have not applied modelling approaches to capture the perceptions systematically. In this paper, a relatively new modelling approach, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), is used to capture systematically the subjective perceptions of stakeholders about tourism development in the Jebel Akhdar region of the Sultanate of Oman. The results show that respondents generally prefer a huge increase in tourism activity in the region, although they also anticipate some negative impacts.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 99-116

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Tourism Economics (Volume 16, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2010

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2010

ISSN

1354-8166

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/295101
  • Scopus: 77952753769

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