TOURISM

Tourism and Butler's TALC

Tourism and Butler's TALC

Introduction

Tourism is defined as those friendly tourist activities with the natural, cultural and social values, which enables people to enjoy a productive trade of experiences among the local residents and tourists. In addition, the interaction between tourists and local residents is fruitful and fives benefits to both the parties (Theobald, 2005). Tourism is fundamental for the economy of many regions, like Thailand. Because tourism involves attracting foreign exchange, it is generally the only means of economic development for some nations. It provides an opportunity for development, employment marketing and sale of local goods etc. It also helps in creating service industries, which are crucial for the development of a region. Many evolving nations like the overview of tourism as a vehicle for financial development, granted its promise to profit from foreign exchange, decrease earnings and paid work disparities, reinforce linkages amidst financial parts and assist to alleviate poverty. The dispute opposite policy maker is to have a broader viewpoint and better comprehending, that there can be both affirmative and contradictory consequences from tourism development.

Tourism, in fact, has a number of features that make it an activity to be considered in the development process, so that its eco proper management can generate a series of positive effects on economic development in any territory. Thus, tourism's development and planning of further improving is very essential for all the countries, especially those whose GDP mainly rely on the amount tourism that take place in the country (Theobald, 2005).

In 1980, Professor R. W. Butler developed a model, which defines that all tourist destinations mostly go through a six stage process where a destination starts its journey at a small scale, get bigger and continued until the stage of stagnancy comes in the overall cycle. The Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) consists of six important stages including Exploration that focuses on the people who prefer to explore something new and go to a place which does not have any tourism facilities and also ignored by the local community (Butler, 2006). The second stage is Involvement that emphasizes the interest of local residents who take notice of increasing tourists coming to their place, which also motivates local residents to start new businesses (Butler, 2006). Third stage of Butler's TALC is Development that explains how established businesses or companies spot the opportunity and start offering their services in that place by building large hotels and travel agencies. In addition, Consolidation can be defined as fourth stage of the TALC model that identifies the issues of local economy and old tourist places as many of the local residents move to new businesses and old industries suffer (Butler, 2006). Stagnation, the fifth stage of the model, explains the competition of the destination with other destinations that may affect the growth of the industry as well as destination, which could also affect the local businesses (Butler, 2006). The last stage of the model is Rejuvenation that explicitly focuses on the decline of the industry, which ...