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Plog • Psychocentric • Mid Centric • Allocentric
Psychocentric Mid Centric Allocentric • Charter\Mass Incipient Mass\unusual\Offbeat\Elite\Experiential • Organized Mass Tourism\ Individual Mass Tourism\Explorer\Drifter • Recreational\ Diversionary\ Experiential\ Experimental\ Existential • Safety • Belongingness • Self Esteem • Self Esteem • Self Actualization
Psychocentric Mid Centric AllocentricEnvironments • Similar to Home Unique Place Attributes • Highly Modified Original Place Attributes • Imitation Authentic Attributes • Front Country Image Back Country Reality
Psychocentric Mid Centric AllocentricImpacts • Extreme Limited • But Contained But Unconstrained
Tourism CycleButler Stagnation Decline or Rejuvenation Consolidation No. of Visitors Development Involvement Exploration TIME
Exploration Stage • Small number of tourists - the aesthetics • Irregular visitation patterns - no charters or ‘mass’ flights • Attracted by unique natural or cultural features
Exploration Stage • No specific facilities - contact with local populations high • Basic impacts are low - low numbers but little control • Link to Allocentrics
2 - Involvement Stage • The number of visitors increase - word of mouth, media awareness • The visitation assumes a more regular pattern - greater numbers linked to time packages and patterns of access (airlines)
2 - Involvement Stage • Individual contact remains high and increases as local populations respond to greater numbers and open facilities • bars • restaurants • shops
2 - Involvement Stage • The basic market area can be defined (populations that are interested) • Initial advertising campaigns start • Basic tourist season commences - local life begins to adjust to the cycle
2 - Involvement Stage • The impacts are low but increasing • Government starts to exert more influence -taxes, regulations • Attraction to Near-Allocentrics and the more daring of the Mid Centrics
3 - Development Stage • Very well defined tourist ‘area’ • shaped partially by heavy advertising • Local Control begins to decline rapidly • Local services are replaced by well organized, more elaborate external services - especially in accommodation (chains)
3 - Development Stage • Natural or cultural attractions will be marketed explicitly • supplemented by man-made attractions To the extent of creating shipwrecks close to accommodation - harbours
3 - Development Stage • Regional or National government control may start - unified policies, tax structures • Number of visitors may exceed the local population • Imported labour (hotels) obvious • Tourism support industry is obvious
3 - Development Stage • The presence of Mid Centrics • Organized mass tourists • High return in the system though the Allocentrics are gone
4 - Consolidation Stage • Rate of growth in tourists declines But the absolute numbers of tourists still increases - no apparent problem
4 - Consolidation Stage • The number of tourists exceed the total population • The economic base shifts to primarily tourism - dependence increases • Broadening of market • 1. Spatially - search for greater numbers • 2. Temporally - extension of ‘season’
4 - Consolidation Stage • The facilities infrastructure takes on a franchise appearance • Possible negative reactions from local population - their action space is restricted
4 - Consolidation Stage • Development of well-defined recreation business districts (non-local - prices) • A quality hierarchy develops - ‘better’ and ‘worse’ attractions
5- Stagnation Stage • Peak number of visitors is reached - flat or negative growth rates • Carrying capacities for many variables are reached or exceeded - pressure on facilities felt by tourists and locals (wait times) • Well established image of ‘place’ - may work against development - ‘out of fashion’
5- Stagnation Stage • Increasing reliance on repeat business • swing to heavy traffic generators • conventions • discount travel • Surplus bed capacity - increasing downward pressure on prices • Less ‘authenticity’ as scramble for profit
5- Stagnation Stage • The resort image is divorced from it’s original geographic environment (anyplace) • New developments tend to be peripheral to the tourist industry (no growth) • facilities change ownership frequently • Psychocentrics and Mass Tourism