Gender Differences: Perceived Tourism Impacts and Tourism Development Support

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-148
Author(s):  
Daniela Soldić Frleta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Development Support

scholarly journals The Impacts of Tourism Development in Rural Indigenous Destinations: An Investigation of the Local Residents’ Perception Using Choice Modeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaowen Chang ◽  
Hungju Chien ◽  
Hungyao Cheng ◽  
Hsin-i Chen
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Choice Modeling ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Development Support ◽  
Negative Impacts

Since indigenous areas have profound ethnic culture and ecological significance and sensitivity, successful tourism development must consider the perceptions of the indigenous community in order to build a mutual relationship grounded on respect and feasibility. The local indigenous communities are influenced by both the positive and negative impacts of tourism. To recognize which tourism impacts are most anticipated and concerning, we determined which and to what extent tourism impacts affect indigenous hosts’ support of alternatives for tourism plans. We used discrete choice modeling in the experiment design for empirical data collection and used mixed-logistic regression to evaluate the influence of each impact on local residents’ perceptions. We rank the effects of socio-culture, economic, and environmental tourism impacts. Our findings suggest that culture-related impacts most improve indigenous residents’ tourism development support. The residents expect economic impacts on both the regional and local scales. However, the results show a willingness to accept pollution following increased tourism. The residents have an adverse opinion of practices that are likely to cause environmental damage. The potential for conflict between local residents and tourists is not important to the local residents. This study contributes essential information to the understanding of tourism impacts from an indigenous perspective.

scholarly journals Well-Being and Residents’ Tourism Support – Mature Island Destination Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (s1) ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Daniela Soldić Frleta ◽  
Jelena Đurkin Badurina ◽  
Larry Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Development Support

Abstract Rapid tourism development accompanied by exponential increase in the number of tourists and visitors in destinations can disrupt the life of destination residents and negatively affect their support for (future) tourism development. On the other hand, residents economically dependent on tourism might have different attitudes toward tourism in comparison to those who are not economically involved in tourism. Several studies have found that economic dependence on tourism induces more positive perceptions of tourism impacts and higher degree of support than non-dependence. Another potential valuable predictor of tourism support could be residents’ subjective well-being, enhancing our understanding quality of life under the influence of tourism. The purpose of this study is to better understand local residents’ support for tourism development by exploring their well-being, involvement in tourism activities and perceived overall value of tourism development. In order to gain a specific perspective of island tourism destination, a sample of residents living on a small Adriatic island Vir (Croatia) was chosen. Vir is high seasonal and mature destination with annual number of visitors around 30 times bigger than the number of permanent residents. It was found that those residents who are directly or indirectly economically benefiting from tourism have significantly higher scores in personal and national well-being domains and also exhibit higher support towards future tourism development, than those who don’t experience economic benefits from tourism. Regression analysis of an island well-being perception index, revealed that tourism generates more benefits than costs and economical involvement in tourism positively affect residents’ tourism development support. On the other hand, demographic predictors (age, gender, education, income) and personal well-being index are not associated with tourism development support. The results provide important insights for researchers and practitioners on understanding residents’ perceptions of tourism in mature destinations and how those perceptions can be related both to subjective well-being and the level of involvement in tourism activities.

scholarly journals The Influence of Tourism Dependency on Tourism Impact and Development Support Attitude

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Hui Hung ◽  
Meen-Tsai Wu
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
The Family ◽  
Development Support ◽  
One Way Anova

The purpose of this study is to analyze the residents' dependence on the tourism industry, their perceptions of tourism impact, and the influence of tourism development supports attitude. This study takes Taiwan Alishan eight tribes aged over 18 indigenous people as the research object, carries on the investigation to the tribes of the proportion of households, a total of 776 valid questionnaires were collected. The effective questionnaires were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t test and one-way ANOVA, the results as follow as: 1. The tourism impacts on the tribe, with a negative impact on the environment is the highest, but also brought a positive social and culture impact. 2.The family members of the respondents did not work in the tourism industry, they are higher in the perception of tourism impact and development support attitude. Based on the above findings, this study not only provides some suggestions for the development of indigenous tribes, but also proposes the direction for the development of tourism planning. 

Residents’ perception towards tourism impacts in Kashmir

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asif Hamid Charag ◽  
Asif Iqbal Fazili ◽  
Irfan Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
City Tourism ◽  
Significant Difference

Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the residents’ perception towards environmental, social, cultural and economic impacts of tourism development in Kashmir. Design/methodology/approach The research instrument containing 27 items pertaining to six variables is adopted from the literature. A mix-method survey approach is used to solicit residents’ perceptions regarding environmental, social, cultural and economic impacts of the current level of tourism development. A total of 326 useful responses were subjected to descriptive statistics, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post hoc analysis using SPSS (Version 22.0). Findings In general, the negative and positive impacts of tourism development are well perceived by the residents. The results indicate that the residents display positive perception regarding economic impacts, however, social and environmental impacts are negatively perceived. Furthermore, barring level of education, the study found no significant difference in the residents’ perception towards tourism impacts (environmental, social, cultural, economic, quality of life and cost of living). Research limitations/implications The paper identifies perceived impacts and issues of tourism development thereby, proposing possible mitigating measures. Also, the study identifies the need to develop a comprehensive policy framework addressing the issues related to the resident’s negative feelings towards tourism impacts. Further, the study envisages the need for engaging residents in developing a progressive and participatory planning process for future tourism activities in the area. Social implications The study offers critical social implications for city tourism development. It suggests a community-based approach should be adopted to sensitize residents about the positive benefits of tourism. Originality/value The study is a novel attempt concerning residents’ residents perceptual differences towards tourism impacts. Furthermore, this study investigated socio-cultural impacts of tourism under two separate categories for better understanding. in doing so, this study provides finer understanding of perception of residents towards tourism impacts in Indian context. The findings of the study will prove critical for different stakeholders in developing future tourism framework and policies in the region.

scholarly journals Indicators of sustainable tourism

2010 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dobrica Jovicic ◽  
Tatjana Ilic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Base

The indicators, precisely describing the linkages between tourism and the environment, social and cultural base, are not easily available. How ever, some relevant organizations (WTO, EU, OECD, etc.), institutions and experts, have been hardly working to create the indicators of sustainable tourism. Whereas the economic objectives are easily defined by the use of the traditional indicators used in national and business economics, it is very difficult to identify widely applicable environmental, social and cultural indicators. In order to stimulate and alleviate the process of sustainable tourism development, EU created the list of comparative indicators of sustainable tourism. In preparing this list, special attention is paid to identification of valid indicators of real tourism impacts on the social and cultural environment (the entire set of traditions, customs, history, hospitality and culture that characterize a given area), that is a very complex task. Assuming the fact that the related indicators have been analyzed in many European countries, this paper is focused on applying the related indicators in research of tourism development in villages of the Kosjeric community. .

scholarly journals More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Petrevska ◽  
Aleksandra Terzić ◽  
Cvetko Andreeski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Policy Perceptions

Sustainability of tourism destinations has become the main focus in planning and managing tourism development. Despite existing legislation and an institutional framework to safeguard balanced tourism growth, many destinations fail to properly address it. So far, studies are limited in exploring sustainable tourism impacts from a policy perspective. This study follows previous ones in using the triple bottom line sustainability approach to define tourism impacts. It argues, in particular, for a nexus between understanding of policy perception and sustainability, and it applies this to tourist destinations in Serbia to determine whether they are operating sustainably. For this purpose, the data were collected using a combination of multiple methods, involving interviews with policymakers and content analysis of strategic documents. This study further suggests a model that assesses the extent of the sustainability of tourist destinations. The results illustrate the importance of understanding policy perceptions in shaping and facilitating sustainability and informing policy enablers on how to improve and reform current tourism development. The model can be adopted and applied to any tourist destination facing an inevitable need to re-shape their tourism development plans and policies, while the implications address the need to build a participative policy approach to sustainable tourism development.

scholarly journals Spatial Distributive Differences in Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Support for Sustainable Tourism Development—Lu-Kang Destination Case

Environments ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-Hsien Lin ◽  
Wei-Ching Wang ◽  
Yuan-I Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Spatial Clusters ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Point Analysis ◽  
High Level

Few empirical studies on the effect of tourism impacts on residents’ support for tourism development have linked an environmental justice perspective with sustainable tourism. This study aims to explore spatial distributive differences in residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts to understand their support for sustainable tourism development. A total of 1057 residents of the Lu-Kang destination in Taiwan were surveyed using an on-site questionnaire. Employing the kernel density method and the local K function for spatial point analysis, the results indicated that spatial clustering of residents’ perceptions of both positive and negative tourism impacts occurred in the specific locations. Further, high household income, high education, and more personal benefits from tourism promoted the formation of localized spatial clusters where residents had positive perceptions of tourism impacts which, in turn, led to a high level of support for tourism development. Conversely, low income, low education, and less personal benefits from tourism cultivated the development of spatial clusters with negative perceptions of tourism impacts which, in turn, caused a low level of support for tourism development. The implications for sustainable tourism planning and strategies are discussed.

scholarly journals Urban resident perceptions of the impacts of tourism development in Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (43) ◽  
pp. 25-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tembi M. Tichaawa ◽  
Sakhile Moyo
Keyword(s):  
Length Of Stay ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Urban Resident ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Urban Households ◽  
Resident Perceptions ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Geographic Context ◽  
Gender Education

AbstractThis study examines the perceptions of urban residents towards the socio-economic and environmental consequences of tourism development in Zimbabwe. Perceptions were tested using empirical data that were gathered from a sample of 384 adult members, representing urban households in Bulawayo. The results from a semi-structured survey revealed that such sociodemographic variables as gender, education, length of stay and income are relatively predictable of their attitude towards tourism. Further, although the urban residents tended to perceive tourism impacts positively, they reacted more strongly to the environmental impacts involved than to the economic and sociocultural impacts. The urban geographic context of this study makes this finding significant, as it indicates that urban residents have an environmental consciousness with regard to tourism. The study has implications for tourism development planners and destination managers, in terms of enhanced engagement with the urban residents regarding tourism development, irrespective of the likelihood of residents supporting future development.

Tourism Development Support Questionnaire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Stylidis ◽  
Avital Biran ◽  
Jason Sit ◽  
Edith M. Szivas
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Development ◽  
Development Support
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