Title: Differences between Tourism and Recreation in Parks - ScienceDirect
Headings: Differences between Tourism and Recreation in Parks
Annals of Tourism Research
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Differences between Tourism and Recreation in Parks
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Content: These villages, surrounded by, but excluded from the ANP, are managed under the development-oriented Alpine Resorts Act (1983). Collectively, they provide in excess of 10,000 beds of commercial and quasicommercial accommodation and attract over 1 million downhill skiers in a good snow year (Alpine Resorts Commission 1993). Recently, the Alpine Resorts Commission (ARC) has begun to promote summer use of the Alps. The management of the Alpine villages has been contentious for many years, as the ARC'S strong development orientation has led it into ongoing conflicts with the conservation movement. Recreation/Tourism Continuum It is widely accepted that tourism in a natural setting is most closely attuned to the leisure and recreation paradigm, with tourism being regarded as an extreme form of recreation (Leiper 1979; Mathieson and Wall 1982; Murphy 1986). Therefore, it follows that at some point or series of points along a continuum, recreation ceases and tourism begins. A number of precis