Impacts of Tourism Activity on Tasmania's Host Community: Analysis

This annotated bibliography critically examines the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the host community in Tasmania, Australia, drawing from a range of academic and non-academic sources. It identifies and analyzes the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental effects of tourism activities, including job creation, infrastructure development, cultural preservation, pollution, and resource management challenges. The analysis covers the attitudes of residents towards tourism, the influence of tourism on their quality of life, and the role of sustainable tourism development in mitigating negative impacts. Furthermore, the bibliography explores the threats to Tasmania's wilderness areas and the potential of tourism to contribute to their conservation, highlighting the importance of government intervention and sustainable management practices. It also discusses the role of events and festivals in promoting tourism and their impact on the local economy and culture.

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Identify and analyze negative and positive impacts of tourism activity on the host
community at the location
Eventstasmania.com. (2018). [online] Available at:
http://www.eventstasmania.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/107007/Tasmania_Events_Strategy
_Web.pdf [Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].
Based on the article, it was found that various events were organized at Tasmania,
Australia, which attracted more than 70000 tourists to visit the place to experience the events.
The events created jobs for many people staying there and it was considered as a major source of
income for them. The article presented that the events were arranged not only for the sake of
enjoyment of the tourists, but also maintained the culture and diversity of the place, furthermore
provided a legacy of infrastructure and skills all throughout. The Government of Tasmania spent
a huge amount of money and most of the funding was administered or managed through the
events held at the place. The article focused the delivery of information regarding the boutique
events capital of Australia, which targeted at gaining more than 1.5 million tourists by the year
2020, promoted Tasmania as a business event destination, maintained the social values and
beliefs and even enriched the keen sense of the community. The articles presented necessary and
relevant information regarding the enrichment of community, created plans for a better future
and developed social cohesion too, which enabled people to participate in the community
programs. The article stated about the benefits tourists could obtain by visiting the place during
the events such as visiting the Gumboot tree in Cornima to experience the scallop pies and visit
the Edge of Bass strait to watch penguins. It was though ignored in the article about the negative
impacts caused such as pollution, feeding the penguins with foods and littering here and here,
which prevented the maintenance of an ecological balance in nature.

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García, F.A., Vázquez, A.B. and Macías, R.C., 2015. Resident's attitudes towards the impacts of
tourism. Tourism Management Perspectives, 13, pp.33-40.
The article discussed about the positive and negative impacts created by the tourism
activities on the residents’ attitudes staying at Tasmania, Australia. From this article, it could be
understood that the attitudes and behaviors of the residents tend to change with the probable
effects created by the tourism activities. The primary purpose of the article was to identify the
various models and theories needed for generalization of the results obtained along with the
development of a brief literature review to come to a conclusion. The residents of Tasmania
valued the positive effects of tourism such as creating more employment scopes and
opportunities and it had been a steady source of income for many residents. The article discussed
how they could benefit from the tourism activities by negotiating with them and created a local
business environment. The attitudes and behaviors of the residents changed and it made them do
certain changes and improvements in the community infrastructure and public facilities. This
improved the living standards of the people and thus the economic benefits were sought and
valued as important activities by the people staying at Tasmania, Australia. The article also
discussed about the attitudes and behaviors of the residents towards the socio-cultural impacts,
which could affect the values, beliefs, customs, social life and the people living in the place too.
Not only does the cultural activity gets influenced, but also there had been certain negative
impacts as well. It was found that people created pollution in the Tasmanian island and even
traffic congestion as created, which increased the level of vandalism, chaos and delinquency.
Environmental impacts were also negative, because pollution was caused and there was lack of
ability to preserve the natural resources properly. The tourism in Tasmania also supported
multiple jobs in industries such as training, education, manufacturing and production along with

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agriculture, fishing and forestry, construction, etc. It was also found that at the north area,
penguins came to visit the place, which was a major attraction for the tourists, but with increased
pollution, the penguins’ count seemed to get lowered too.
Kim, K., Uysal, M. and Sirgy, M.J., 2013. How does tourism in a community impact the quality
of life of community residents?. Tourism Management, 36, pp.527-540.
From the article, it could be understood that once the community become a tourist
destination, the lives of people living in that place could get affected as well by the tourism
activities. The paper discussed about the positive and negative impacts of the tourism activities
on the host community at Tasmania, Australia. Various researches were conducted to highlight
the impacts of the tourism activities including the poverty, per capita income, rate of criminal
activities and pollution level. The topic also discussed about the life satisfaction of the
individuals staying there along with the factors influencing their behaviors related to the safety,
health and wellbeing. The article consisted of theoretical models that were developed to
represent the perception of the people regarding their level of satisfaction with the life domains
including the emotional experience, materials, community, health and safety. From the article, it
was found that the life satisfaction of the residents within the community enhanced due to the
tourism activities, because it created enough scope and opportunities for them to provide services
to the tourists and gain a good amount of money. On the other hand, the article also depicted that
the tourism activities caused significant harm to the life habitat and even created pollution, which
created issues for the animals and aquatic life too. Based on the conceptual model and empirical
study results, the tourism activities preserved the culture of Tasmania, Australia and even the
areas went through significant transformation. This facilitated the change and certain
improvements in the visitors’ needs and preferences and even created possible replacement of

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physical plants and facilities, furthermore reflected evolution in terms of various stages such as
exploration, development, stagnation and decline. The importance of Government intervention
and maintaining sustainability while managing the tourism activities were also depicted here that
created positive impact on the quality of lives of residents within the community. The Tasmanian
Mona Foma arts festivals brought out the culture of the place and even created ease for the
residents to earn a significant amount of money by allowing the tourists to enjoy during their stay
at the place. The accommodation facilities provided were provided within budget, which was
another source of income for the residents.
Lee, T.H., 2013. Influence analysis of community resident support for sustainable tourism
development. Tourism management, 34, pp.37-46.
From the article, it was found that with the decline in traditional industries, the rural
communities in Tasmania managed to explore alternative means of strengthening the economic
resources and created better economic benefits for the residents. The article proposed a
hypothesis, both positive and negative, which showed that the perceived benefits of sustainable
tourism could positively affect the residents’ support for the sustainable tourism development
and the perceived costs of sustainable tourism could negatively affect the residents’ support for
sustainable tourism development as negative hypothesis. It was found from the article that the
host within the community at Tasmania, Australia was benefited through the enhancement in
economic growth and development along with improved quality of lives of people and protection
of the physical locations too. According to the ar6ticle, community based tourism development
had acted as an important tool for sustainable management. The article discussed about the social
exchange theory, which allowed for supporting the residents for the development of tourism
activities and even allowed to enhance the environmental quality, through improvement of lives

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of human beings, creating more opportunities for them and even preserving the natural resources
and habitats in the place. The article also evaluated the negative impacts that might arise when
the host residents would perceive that the community based tourism development could incur
more costs that the probable benefits achieved, then the tourism activities would likely to be
opposed by them. The article discussed about the data collection procedures such as survey
questionnaires distributed to the respondents and conducting interviews with the managers of the
tourism organizations to obtain both quantitative and qualitative data and information. The 11
item scale and SPSS tools were used according to the article, which further helped in articulating
the benefits and issues that might be generated due to the tourism activities at Tasmania,
Australia. The community resident support provided accommodation facilities and even
increased the visitors to more than 211600. Thus, a positive impact on the GDP was created
which further allowed the residents to maintain diversity and sustainability by preserving the
natural resources. Thus, the article provided a brief introduction to the topic, literature review
and various research methods along with data collection techniques too.
Parks.tas.gov.au. (2018). Parks & Wildlife Service - Threats to the Tasmanian Wilderness World
Heritage Area. [online] Available at: http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=667
[Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].
The Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife service presented the article, which promotes
conservation of wild life such as bars, penguin and many other species. The article discussed
about the natural and cultural heritage specialists who managed to maintain the values of the
wilderness and even focused on the threats such as introducing trout in the trout free lakes,
unlawful fire lighting and even carelessness by the tourists. The article is reliable and authentic
because the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife service have presented it and this even provided

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relevant information about the diseases such as plant diseases and dieback. According to the
article, unlawful actions were prevented and sustainable approaches were considered as effective
for increasing the tourism activities and improve the economic growth and success through
preservation of natural and cultural heritage values and beliefs .
The Conversation. (2018). Paradise gained – how tourism could help Tasmania's wilderness.
[online] Available at: https://theconversation.com/paradise-gained-how-tourism-could-help-
tasmanias-wilderness-36301 [Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].
The article presented at The Conversation stated about the benefits gained through the
maintenance of paradise at Tasmania. It also discussed about the tourists and their impacts on the
wilderness at Tasmania. According to the article, the wilderness zones were defined in the 1999
TWWHA management plan, which provided green light to the new tourism accommodation
development at the Tasmanian wilderness. The article is reliable and authentic because of its
updated and accurate information and data related to the topic regarding the negative and
positive impacts of the tourism activities at Tasmania, Australia. The article mainly focused on
the authenticity and reliability of the information considering the sustainable tourism at
Tasmania. The preservation of natural values, beliefs as well as the natural resources was
important, according to the article, which could reduce the chances of soil erosion and prevent
diseases, furthermore contribute to the health and wellbeing of the people staying there. The
tourism activities would promote conservation f natural resources while at the same time, there
might be chances of incidents when the tourists could make the place dirty and even disrespect
the culture and values of the community. The article further concluded that the state Government
had the role to protect the interests of the region and furthermore conserve the natural resources
to encourage the breeding of animals and enhance the World Heritage area too.

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References
Eventstasmania.com. (2018). [online] Available at:
http://www.eventstasmania.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/107007/Tasmania_Events_Strategy
_Web.pdf [Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].
García, F.A., Vázquez, A.B. and Macías, R.C., 2015. Resident's attitudes towards the impacts of
tourism. Tourism Management Perspectives, 13, pp.33-40.
Kim, K., Uysal, M. and Sirgy, M.J., 2013. How does tourism in a community impact the quality
of life of community residents?. Tourism Management, 36, pp.527-540.
Lee, T.H., 2013. Influence analysis of community resident support for sustainable tourism
development. Tourism management, 34, pp.37-46.
Parks.tas.gov.au. (2018). Parks & Wildlife Service - Threats to the Tasmanian Wilderness World
Heritage Area. [online] Available at: http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=667
[Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].
The Conversation. (2018). Paradise gained – how tourism could help Tasmania's wilderness.
[online] Available at: https://theconversation.com/paradise-gained-how-tourism-could-help-
tasmanias-wilderness-36301 [Accessed 24 Apr. 2018].