International Tourism System: Aspen, Colorado Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography analyzes the impact of tourism on Aspen, Colorado, drawing from multiple sources. Debarbieux et al. (2014) examine tourism's economic potential and associated risks in mountain regions like Aspen, highlighting both opportunities and challenges. Nepal and Chipeniuk (2005) provide a conceptual framework for understanding mountain tourism, focusing on resource specifications and planning implications. Gardner-Smith (2018) explores the socio-economic issues faced by Aspen's local communities, including racism and injustice. Aspentimes.com (2018) discusses the economic impact on Aspen's communities, focusing on employment instability. Swanson and Edgell (2013) address public policy implications for tourism. Wallace (2018) discusses water management policies. These sources collectively reveal the complex interplay of economic development, social equity, and environmental sustainability in Aspen's tourism industry, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic and related research.

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Debarbieux, B., Oiry Varacca, M., Rudaz, G., Maselli, D., Kohler, T. and Jurek, M.,
2014. Tourism in mountain regions: hopes, fears and realities. Department of Geography
and Environment, University of Geneva; Centre for Development and Environment,
University of Bern.
This article discusses the impact of tourism activities it in mountain regions such as
Aspen, Colorado. The authors of the article explicitly evaluate the economic potentialities
tourism holds in particularly for mountain communities inhabiting in the regions of Aspen.
Though a ski resort town like Aspen serves to a broad range of tourists for skiing, hiking as well
as climbing, several other tourists visit the place in order to comprehend and further appreciate
the scenic beauty of the Colorado landscapes along with the town’s history and contemporary art
works. The article further reviews the issues and risks that tourism activities bring by affecting
the ecological products and services further compromising the cultural recognitions of the
location and rising social disparities. Several issues have been observed in this paper to
comprehend the impact of tourism activities on the local inhabitants of Aspen. Though the
effective cooperation of tourists and stakeholders serve considerable growth and sustainability
within the Colorado region, it does not wholly ascertain genuine development or will provide
equitability as well as sustainability within the region. The article explains the dependency of
tourism development on factors such as the charisma of the destination, economic accessibility,
wellbeing as well as professionalism of the local trade. The article appears to have provided well
established analysis on the factors that are incompetent of ensuring effective sustainability
despite of the excess inflow of safeguarded natural regions in the regions of Elk Mountains range
of the Rocky Mountains in North America. Furthermore, it provides a full exploration of the
number of threats and challenges that this are experiences in regards to the exploitation,

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antagonism deriving from host communities who are less economically advantageous and often
condemn accessibilities to tourists thus curbing advancement of the region. The authors of this
paper further acknowledge the positive endeavours that contribute to the natural environmental
growth and sustainability.
Nepal, S.K. and Chipeniuk, R., 2005. Mountain tourism: Toward a conceptual
framework. Tourism Geographies, 7(3), pp.313-333.
The purpose of this article is to evaluate issues related to tourism in mountainous regions
such as the ski area of the western region of United States in Colorado. The paper explicitly
observes the mountain-centric resource specifications that incorporate several aspects of
multiplicity, peculiarity, complexities related to accessibility along with niche and aesthetics.
The paper further reviews the transforming nature of tourism activities and its relevant
implications of such actions for the strategic planning and approaches of Aspen as well as its
management. It should be noted here that the elevating global knowledge and awareness related
to problems have been highlighted in the policy outline of several domestic and global agencies
as well as governments. The authors of this paper examine the tourism standpoints regarding the
developmental guidelines and policies of mountain within the wide outline of human-nature
communication in the natural environments of Aspen region have been regarded as significant.
The strengths of the paper lies with its precise observation in understanding the struggles and
complexities faced by the weak and underdeveloped infrastructure within the Aspen Colorado
ski region which has been traditionally constrained from certain external associations of its
economies thereby leading to lack of progress and development within the region. However, for
instance, it is further to be noted that several remote mountain regions in Interior ranges and
forest ranges of Aspen which are distributed in inaccessible or distant mountainous regions of the

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Rocky mountain have been gathering tourists who are significantly contributing to the economic
development of the local environment. It is further to be taken into consideration that the article
has been unable to explore the certain issues that has led to the deliberate development of the
region. Wider arguments have been highlighted in the article whereby it reveals tourism not only
facilitates in developing an incorporated perspective on mountain tourism development and
management but give rise to certain socio-economic issues concerning the destination growth of
the region.
Gardner-Smith, B., 2018. "The Slums of Aspen". [online] Aspen Journalism. Available at:
https://www.aspenjournalism.org/2011/08/18/exploring-environmental-privilege-in-aspen/
[Accessed 29 Apr. 2018].
This article discusses key implications faced by the isolated regions of the Rocky
Mountain range of the USA because of the activities performed by the tourism sector. The region
well recognized for its ski resorts and contemporary art works has been struggling in order to
restabilise its economic standards. The author of this paper reviews the way the local
communities of this region have been struggling with excessive rate of dominant issues of
racism, multiculturalism and injustice that has further led to the Aspen host communities remain
underdeveloped and marginalized from the economies generated through tourism development.
The article further explains that in order to comprehend the socio-economic issues one must
require to develop knowledge about the Mexican border along with the political events related to
immigration. The Aspen tourism sector has been utilizing the resort’s slums in order to highlight
the magnetism and integrated culture of the mountainous region to gather a broad array of
tourists across the world. It should be noted here that certain slums of Aspen have been facing
the increased rate of environmental harm further resulting into a grave social concern. However,

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the articles reviews the way tourism sector has been drawing benefits from such environmental
impact and further enhancing the level of their economy. The article appears to be a well-
evaluated as well as well-discussed paper and has analysed the anguish and seclusion the local
communities experiencing because of lack of recognition and proper identity in the domain of
tourism that is considered as one of important source of capitalization of the Aspen region.
Several immigrants working in Aspen have revealed the bigotry and discrimination faced by
them whereby the elites have been positioned on an advantageous position of the society than the
ones who travel to the resort town of Aspen from down valley.
Aspentimes.com. 2018. Report offers critical look at Aspen economy. [online] Available at:
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/report-offers-critical-look-at-aspen-economy/ [Accessed
29 Apr. 2018].
The paper aims to discuss the economic impact on Aspen local communities over the past
decade and the way it is experiencing severe barriers to its future economic condition because of
the improper distribution of tourism economies among the host communities. The article
evaluates previous researches on the Economic Sustainability Report which has revealed the
significant employment instability within the local communities along with declining
remuneration because of the elevating inflow of migrants from other parts of the county. Such
abundance of migrants have gradually occupied a major section of tourism sector further
resulting lack of job opportunities to the indigenous communities. Furthermore, the paper
explores hostile economic stagnation of recent times by shedding light on the unsteady
employment levels, declining earnings of local Aspen communities, along with the decreased
retail sales development. The strength of the paper can be comprehended by focusing on the way
it has observed the efforts the host communities of Aspen have been producing in order to

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stabilise, reinstate and further refurbish the complex policies and regulations pertaining within
the area. However, the author further evaluated the approaches developed by the host
communities to respond effectively to the proposals outlined in 2002. It is further to be noted that
though the tourism industry has been experiencing certain amounts of growth and improvements
by establishing hotels, resorts and major remodels of other asset and properties, the scenario of
the host communities have relatively experienced growth as well. The paper furthermore
reviewed the incompetence to regenerate the mountainous regions of Aspen whereby certain
strategies of hotel and town constructions have been considered. The author further examines the
concern of host community growth and progress by focusing on the recent development and
refurbishment proposals and initiatives. The report has also observed the propositions offered by
the tourism sector of Aspen to continue performing in order to enhance the significance of
business fundamentals and safeguard the natural energy of the region.
Swanson, J.R. and Edgell Sr, D.L., 2013. Tourism policy and planning: Yesterday, today, and
tomorrow. Routledge.
The paper discusses the public policy implications that pose severe threats to the tourism
experts who often recognize themselves to be on the less qualified or incomprehensive positions
related to the issues and further express incompetence to receive governmental aid to solve the
issues. The authors have reviewed the way US have applied to national tourism regulations and
policy advancements in other parts of the world. It incorporates the political and foreign policy
implications by focusing on the tourism agreements that the US has been negotiating since past
three decades with several other nations. These political policy implications primarily
concentrates on improvement of dual tourism, supporting efforts by the National Tourism
Organization travel endorsement office and further acknowledging the reciprocal funding in the

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tourism industries of both nations. Furthermore, the environmental policies promote the
significant historical structures, magnificent mountainous range and the lovely flora and fauna of
the Rocky mountain range that would facilitate in developing the tourism economy. As the
tourism sector is identified as one of the significant industries of Aspen, Colorado its concurrent
growth and progress practices have served particular demand on sustainable tourism planning as
well as policy. The authors of this article has effectively established this paper as it explicitly
reviews the implications of each regulation that enhance the tourism outcome of Aspen by
further highlighting the policy of education and training in the tourism industry. It further
enlightens the industry-wide growth that has been resulted in the areas of improved service and
customer engagement and satisfaction.
Wallace,J.R.,2018. Endocrinology. [online] Available at:
http://rockymountainclimate.org/website%20pictures/2014-First%20Draft-Colorado
%27sWaterPlan.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2018].
The article explicitly discusses water management policies and further maintaining the
health and sustainability of the people inhabiting in Aspen region of Colorado that would further
facilitate the tourism growth and development of the region. The article reviews the US federal
Clean Water Act that necessitate each state to effectively conduct water quality evaluation inn
order to determine whether the streams and estuaries meet the adequate health standards for both
the local communities and the tourists. The paper proves to be well observed with its integrated
reviews on the natural approach of regulating glacier water of North America. Furthermore, the
paper has reviewed the sustainability opportunities highlighted by the global amenity of
migration centre that related to the human migration for environmental as well as cultural
facilities in particular to the mountain environmental areas of Rocky mountain range in North

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America that would further enhance the growth of tourism consequences for the Aspen mountain
region.

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References
Aspentimes.com. 2018. Report offers critical look at Aspen economy. [online] Available at:
https://www.aspentimes.com/news/report-offers-critical-look-at-aspen-economy/ [Accessed 29
Apr. 2018].
Debarbieux, B., Oiry Varacca, M., Rudaz, G., Maselli, D., Kohler, T. and Jurek, M.,
2014. Tourism in mountain regions: hopes, fears and realities. Department of Geography and
Environment, University of Geneva; Centre for Development and Environment, University of
Bern.
Gardner-Smith, B., 2018. "The Slums of Aspen". [online] Aspen Journalism. Available at:
https://www.aspenjournalism.org/2011/08/18/exploring-environmental-privilege-in-aspen/
[Accessed 29 Apr. 2018].
Nepal, S.K. and Chipeniuk, R., 2005. Mountain tourism: Toward a conceptual
framework. Tourism Geographies, 7(3), pp.313-333.
Swanson, J.R. and Edgell Sr, D.L., 2013. Tourism policy and planning: Yesterday, today, and
tomorrow. Routledge.
Wallace,J.R.,2018. Endocrinology. [online] Available at:
http://rockymountainclimate.org/website%20pictures/2014-First%20Draft-Colorado
%27sWaterPlan.pdf [Accessed 29 Apr. 2018].