Foundations of Tourism Planning and Development

The demand-led approach promotes tourism as an instrument for economic development

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Trickle-down theory is a toursim development theory that believes in tourism growth as a tool for improvement of the lives affected by tourism

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The monetary policy instrument under the Bureaucratic or Government-Led Approach includes strategic plans, accreditation schemes, and investment schemes, among others

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The tourism planning approach that has no established tourism agenda and is planned on a case-by-case basis is called economic development

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Adaptancy platform is a tourism platform that relies on raw and rational information over personal opinions

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The knowledge-based platform is a type of tourism planning approach that criticizes tourism and focuses on its negative effects

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The adaptancy platform encourages the pursuance of alternative tourism, which is described as a low-volume and low-impact form of tourism

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The irridex model theory is mostly associated with Doxey's Irritation Index model

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The environmental approach uses the concept of carrying capacity in the tourism planing process

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The Laissez-faire theory believes that the tourism industry should be left to the responsibility of the market forces

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