Highlights
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Positive impacts are well-being, sociocultural life and improvement in reserve protection.
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No evidence is found for the cultural disruption or prurient impacts on children.
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The leadership and the social cohesiveness of villages underlay its coping with tourism.
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The tourism benefits have outweighed the costs despite the high dependence on tourism activities.
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The village's homogeneity and the relationship with tourism entrepreneurs create empowerment.