PERIPHERAL TOURISM - DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

This article outlines the economic, environmental, and social problems encountered in developing and managing tourism in peripheral regions. These include large economic leakages from tourism expenditures, diff iculties in providing and maintaining touristic infrastructure, and ma naging its environmental conservation and social impacts. The growth o f tourism on Cape York Peninsula (Australia) is taken as an example an d use made of the results of a survey of tourists and of tourism opera tors. This region is distant from large urban centers, is relatively u nderdeveloped, and contains a proportionately high aboriginal populati on.