dc.contributor.author | Buckley, Ralf | |
dc.contributor.author | Shekari, Fatemeh | |
dc.contributor.author | Mohammadi, Zohre | |
dc.contributor.author | Azizi, Fatemeh | |
dc.contributor.author | Ziaee, Mahmood | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-26T23:43:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-26T23:43:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0047-2875 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0047287519853048 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/386344 | |
dc.description.abstract | We show that tourism to a World Heritage Area generates economic opportunities in nearby rural communities, sufficient to reverse migration to the city. To carry out this test, we used an isolated region with a simple economic structure and a newly declared WHA, and analyzed economic constraints, opportunities, and decision processes at the micro scale of individual households, through qualitative analysis of interviews and on-site audits. Tourism triggered a switch from accelerating decline of rural villages, with closing schools and abandoned buildings and farmland, to accelerating recovery and reinvigoration, with new ecolodges and adventure tours employing household members and other local residents. The switch was assisted by low-interest ecotourism loans. It has also generated new economic opportunities for women specifically, and these have created much greater social freedom and self-determination, now also accepted by men. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 14 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Travel Research | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Commercial services | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Marketing | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Tourism | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3504 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3506 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3508 | |
dc.title | World Heritage Tourism Triggers Urban–Rural Reverse Migration and Social Change | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.description.notepublic | This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version. | |
gro.rights.copyright | Buckley, et al., World Heritage Tourism Triggers Urban–Rural Reverse Migration and Social Change, Journal of Travel Research. Copyright 2019 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Buckley, Ralf | |