"The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resource"-Butler

W. Christaller
1. Tourists change within tourist areas
2. Tourists forever finding undiscovered or forgotten areas
3. Non local visitors that have been attracted to an area
A Hypothetical Cycle of Area Evolution
1. Stage 1: Exploration
2. Stage 2: Involvement
3. Stage 3: Development
4. Stage 4: Consolidation
5. Stage 5: Stagnation
6. Stage 6: Decline
7. Stage 6: Rejuvenation
S. C. Plog
1. Tourist areas evolve = Attracting different types of tourists
2. Centrics
  1. Allocentrics
  2. Mid-Centrics
  3. Pyschocentrics
3. Old tourist areas compete against newly developed tourist areas
4. "The most attractive and interesting areas in the world are doomed to become tourist relics"
Implications
1. Instant Resort
2. Not all tourist areas experience the stages of the cycle
3. Agencies
  1. Public
  2. Private

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