Local Residents’ Responses to Tourism as a Framework to Understand Hosts’ Responses to Short-Term Missions

Authors

Jeremy Griffin, Asbury Theological SeminaryFollow

Abstract

The research on the perspectives of the hosts in short-term missions is beginning to gain a stronger presence in the literature on short-term missions. To analyze the hosts’ point of view in short-term missions, this article uses four theoretical frameworks from the anthropology of tourism that measure hosts’ attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions of tourism, its development and impacts. The result is that the hosts may show advocacy, concession, contention, or resignation towards short-term missions.

DOI

10.7252/Journal.01.2013F.09

Recommended Citation

Griffin, Jeremy (2013) "Local Residents’ Responses to Tourism as a Framework to Understand Hosts’ Responses to Short-Term Missions," The Asbury Journal: Vol. 68: No. 2, p. 134-159.
Available at: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/vol68/iss2/10