Spatial distribution of tourism resources has a lot of implications in terms of development, economic and job creation. But the way and manner it is distributed can equally affect regional development in a given locality, and neglect of development of other tourism resources.
Therefore result of previous academic articles done in this regards needed.
Thanks for your anticipated contributions and suggestions
Dear Odum, in this conference paper I wrote about spatial aspects of tourism on p.3. The general idea is as follows. First, there is attraction point (for example, waterfall Victoria) or cluster of them (interesting architectural monuments in locations at short distance from each other, so that a tourist can live in a hotel and travel every day by bus to different location of interest). They may attract tourists, but infrastructure is needed (hotels, connection by air or roads). The problem is that this investment is too costly if the flow of tourists is small. One should think where to invest first when there are several competing attractions. If you invest everywhere, it is possible that flows will split, and none of locations will have critical mass of tourists to make investment profitable. This will be a failure. Once this investment generates profitable flow of tourists, there is positive externality for local jobs, etc.
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Dear Odum,
These links may be helpful for you.
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-JJDL200905036.htm
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-JJDL200503027.htm
http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/wever/302137
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-DLKX200806006.htm
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