ABSTRACT
The impact of tourism on local communities has formed a large part of tourism and interdisciplinary studies based on the cultural, social, and economic impact of the sector.2 In the same vein, but with a more specialist focus, this chapter will explore the interaction between the tourism industry and local communities by examining the sociospatial effects of tourism development on local residents’ contact with the ‘tourism space.’3 Previous studies on the spatial effects of tourism development have been explored through studies related to the tourism-built environment and have been commonly associated with the ‘enclavic’ model of tourism development. These discussions have centred on the destructive effects of ‘enclave tourism’ on local communities through case studies of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America (Brohman 1996; Oppermann 1993; Britton 1982; Kermath and Thomas 1992; Sindiga 1996; Clancy 1999; Henshall Momson 1985).
