Hosts' Perception of Economic and Socio-Cultural Tourism Impacts

  • Anton Ogorelc
  • David Kamšek
  • Borut Milfelner
Keywords: host community and tourism, gambling tourism, economic and socio-cultural impacts of tourism, residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts

Abstract

Analyzing tourism perceptions of host communities and residents’ attitudes toward tourism development has been gaining increasing attention in the tourism research. This paper examines how residents perceive positive and negative economic and socio-cultural impacts of tourism. The authors identify several differences betwe- en two groups of respondents: residents employed in tourism and other residents. The study provides tourism planners with useful information concerning specific ele- ments associated with residents’ positive and negative perception of the impact of tourism.

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Author Biographies

Anton Ogorelc

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: anton.ogorelc@uni-mb.si

Anton Ogorelc, PhD, is an associate professor of international business logistics and tourism at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor. He earned his PhD at the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Bayreuth, in the field of international trade in services. His core research areas are transporta- tion planning for manufacturing companies, transport systems with an emphasis on rail transport, and community-based tourism. As a member of the Institute for Transport and Business Logistics, he has participated in various national and in- ternational research projects to discover the potential of logistics in the manufac- turing as well as transport sectors.

David Kamšek

HIT d.d. Nova Gorica, IZC Korona, Slovenia
E-mail: david.kamsek@telemach.net

David Kamšek has honed his expertise in business administration and organiza- tion. He received his MSc degree at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, Faculty of Economics and Business, where he also received his BA in economics. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a casino manager in Casino Kristal, Umag, Croatia; in 2011, he was a table games manager in Casino Korona, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. He currently works as a table games supervisor in Casino Korona, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. In addition, he has servesd as a procurator in Kozmetika Herbanika since February 2013 and has been the owner and CEO of the business consultancy company Markplan, Ltd. since April 2013.

Borut Milfelner

Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, Slovenia
E-mail: borut.milfelner@uni-mb.si

Borut Milfelner is an assistant professor of marketing and tourism at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, Faculty of Economics and Business. He received his PhD degree from the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, in 2010. His research interests include marketing research, internal marketing, consumer behavior, tourism marketing, and the resource-based theory. His bibliography consists of 141 works, 20 published scientific articles (8 of them in JCR-indexed journals), 26 scientific conference contributions, and 2 scientific monographs. He has been a research team member on several projects for the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Slovenian Research Agency, Ministry of Economy, and Slovenian Tourist Board. He is also a member of the editorial board for two scientific journals in the field of marketing and a reviewer for several domestic and international scientific journals.

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Published
2013-08-04
How to Cite
Ogorelc A., Kamšek D., & Milfelner B. (2013). Hosts’ Perception of Economic and Socio-Cultural Tourism Impacts. Naše gospodarstvo/Our Economy, 59(3-4), 26-38. Retrieved from https://journals.um.si/index.php/oe/article/view/2305