Doxey Irridex Analysis
Doxey's Irritation Index, or Irridex, is a framework for understanding how a host community's attitude toward tourism changes as the destination grows. Proposed by George Doxey in 1975 as a causation theory of visitor-resident irritants, it holds that residents pass through four sequential states as tourist numbers and impacts intensify: euphoria, when tourism is new and welcomed; apathy, when it becomes routine and purely commercial; irritation, when saturation strains local life; and antagonism, when residents openly resent and blame tourists. The model's enduring appeal is that it frames resident hostility not as random but as the predictable end of an unmanaged growth process, and it pairs naturally with the Tourism Area Life Cycle to explain the social side of a destination's evolution and to warn managers to act before goodwill turns to antagonism.
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- Doxey, G. V. (1975). A causation theory of visitor-resident irritants: methodology and research inferences. In The Impact of Tourism: Sixth Annual Conference Proceedings of the Travel Research Association (pp. 195-198). San Diego, CA: Travel Research Association. · URL
- Jafari, J., & Xiao, H. (Eds.) (2016). Irritation index. In Encyclopedia of Tourism. Cham: Springer. · DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01384-8_564
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