6.3 Rural and urban communities
Many scholars propose that the impacts of tourism are more obviously observed in small communities where tourism often plays a major part in the local economy (Sharpley, 1999). Conversely, the impacts in urban areas can be much less as tourism is small compared to other forces of social change.Therefore, local residents who live in urban areas have concerns with tourism that differ from residents in rural areas. (Long et al., 1990; Snepenger et al., 1998).