Hosts and Guests
Host-guest relationships have been the subject of much research and theoretical debate within the study of tourism (Aramberri, 2001; Smith, 2003). The origins of the study of hosts and guests emerged from anthropological concerns with the impacts of tourism on local cultures, and since the 1970s researchers have been concerned with the subsequent conflicts that can arise, and the tensions that exist, between visitors and locals. One of the earliest edited works in the academic literature on the anthropology of tourism was the pioneering work of Smith (1977). Smith's book comprised a collection of essays examining host-guest relationships and cultural impact studies of tourism in a number of (predominantly non-Western) nations. A concern was directed towards the economic benefits that local communities can gain from being involved in tourism as well the nature of tourism and effect on the structure of society (Smith, 1989: ix) Due to its origins in anthropological and ethnographic research, the host-guest paradigm primarily on between hosts in societies and tourists of developed nations Aramberri, 2001). As a result