The Tourist Area Life Cycle (TALC) and Its Effect on the Quality-of-Life (QOL) of Destination Community

This chapter examines the connection between tourism area life cycle (TALC) and its effects on the quality-of-life (QOL) of destination communities. We posit that as destinations go through structural changes over time, the extent to which the dynamics of change affect the QOL of the resident commun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Uysal, Muzaffer, Woo, E., Signal, M.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/61570