Adventure tourism and local livelihoods

•Does mobile or fixed-site tourism contribute more to local livelihoods?•Comparing surf charter boats with Dhonveli Resort, Maldives, provides a test.•The resort contributes 1.9x tax per surf tourist than boats, but similar local jobs.•Resorts have higher social and environmental impacts than boats.•This partly contradicts a previous analysis favouring resorts.

MoreLess

Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Buckley, Ralf ; Shakeela, Aishath ; Guitart, Daniela
Published in:	Annals of Tourism Research. - Elsevier, ISSN 0160-7383. - Vol. 48.2014, C, p. 269-272
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Surf \| Maldives \| Boats \| Resorts \| Jobs \| Tax

Online Resource

Check full text access |

More access options

Check Google Scholar

In libraries world-wide (WorldCat)

In German libraries (KVK)

subito order

I need help

More details

Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011049662