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Next, September/October. Residents’ Strategies for Responding to Tourism Impacts JOHN AP AND JOHN L. CROMPTON This article reports four strategies that comprise a continuum for responding to tourism impacts: embracement, tolerance, adjustment, and withdrawal. The behaviors seem to result from reactions to tourists’ numbers and behavior rather than from a cultural gap. Two directions for future research are suggested: to relate residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts to the behavioral strategies they adopt, and to develop an instrument for measuring the strategies continuum described. Tourism has emerged as a forceful agent of change in John Ap Is in the Department of Hotel and Tourism Manage- ment at Hong Kong Polytechnic John L Crompton Is in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University many of the communities in which it has been encouraged. Mathieson and Wall (1982) have noted, &dquo;The consequences of tourism have become increasingly complex and contradic- tory... (and) are manifested in subtle and often unexpected ways&dquo; (p. 4). In recognition of these consequences, a body of research findings has emerged over the past decade on