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The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development recognizes the importance of sustainable tourism development, which promotes local communities’ culture and ensures environmentally responsible use of natural resources. Tourism has the potential to impact the quality of life of both tourists and residents. Management of impacts for sustainable development requires a community-based understanding of impact perception. This chapter focuses on and integrates several approaches to delineate the effects of tourism development on communities’ quality of life. It presents a case study from Northern Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Drawing on this empirical research, the chapter further discusses the Ecosystem Approach and DPSIR (Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, Response) framework. The combination of these tools provides a defensible and transparent methodology to overcome challenges associated with this line of research, namely, how is quality of life impacted by tourism? how can impacts be measured objectively? and ultimately, what are the management implications? This chapter focuses on research theory and methodology from current literature and provides pragmatic contributions for future research as well as achievable recommendations for government, tourism operators, and the local community.
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We express our sincerest gratitude to the Northern Vancouver Island Community Residents and for their time and valuable input in survey development and participation. Thank you so much to Dr. Alice Newton (UAlg, PT) and Dr. William Rees (UBC, CAD), M.Sc. co-supervisors and Dr. Viviane Fonseca for statistics guidance.
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Rempel, J.M., Berbekova, A. (2023). Exploring the Causal Nexus of Tourism Impacts on Quality of Life. In: Uysal, M., Sirgy, M.J. (eds) Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research II. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31513-8_24
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