Effect of residents’ place attachment on their participation intention in local tourism development

2013 ◽  
pp. 23-31
Author(s):  
H. Zhang ◽  
S. L. Lei
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Tourism Development

scholarly journals Using Destination Image and Place Attachment to Explore Support for Tourism Development: The Case of Tourism Versus Non-tourism Employees in EILAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 951-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Stylidis
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Destination Image ◽  
Behavior Support ◽  
Intentional Behavior ◽  
Two Factors

Apart from the economic motive, little attention has been given to factors such as destination image and place attachment in explaining how potential differences in intentional behavior (support for tourism, intention to recommend) develop between tourism employees and non-tourism employees in a community. This study, conducted in the remote resort of Eilat, explores whether these resident groups’ representations of and attachment to their place shape their intentional behavior toward tourism, and tests the explanatory ability of the two factors to account for potential differences in groups’ intentional behavior. Findings suggest that the relationships between: (a) place attachment and destination image, (b) place attachment and intention to recommend, and (c) between destination image and intention to recommend, vary across the two groups. The study contributes to tourism theory by empirically validating the role of image and attachment as antecedent of such differentiation. Additional implications to tourism theory and practice are discussed.

The effect of place image and place attachment on residents’ perceived value and support for tourism development

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Seyedeh Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji ◽  
Lester W. Johnson ◽  
Samaneh Sadeghian
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Place Image

scholarly journals City vs. Town residents’ place attachment, perceptions and support for tourism development in a linear World Cultural Heritage Site

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258365
Author(s):  
Wei Cao ◽  
Wendong Yu ◽  
Jinhai Xu
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Grand Canal ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Grand Canal ◽  
The City

This study examines local residents’ place attachment (PA) to the city or town they live and investigates how this attachment influences their perceptions and support for tourism development (ST), as well as comparing the differences of these relationships among the city and town residents in a linear World Heritage Site (WHS) setting. Structural equation model was used to analyze samples of 226 city residents and 235 town residents along the Grand Canal Yangzhou Section, China. The findings suggested that residents’ PA is positively correlated their ST. Results also suggested that the PA-ST effect is partially mediated by residents’ positive perceptions in the city area while fully mediated by residents’ positive and negative perceptions in the town areas. This study could help local governments make heritage development and management policies accordingly for cities and towns along the Grand Canal area.

Tourism-Induced Place Change: The Role of Place Attachment, Emotions, and Tourism Concern in Predicting Supportive or Oppositional Behavioral Responses

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728752096775
Author(s):  
Lidija Lalicic ◽  
Marion Garaus
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Oppositional Behavior

This study investigates residents’ emotional and behavioral responses to environmental changes caused by tourism development. Statistical analysis conducted on a comprehensive sample of 1,001 residents from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, explores emotional responses as an underlying mechanism used to explain residents’ behavioral responses as well as their tourism concern as boundary conditions for this mediating effect. In contributing to the extant debate on the role of place attachment (i.e., the bond between people and their environment) in predicting residents’ supportive behavior for tourism development, the findings reveal that high levels of place attachment generally result in oppositional behavior. Moreover, results confirm that emotions, as evoked by tourism-induced place change, explain residents’ supportive and oppositional responses. Positive emotional responses to tourism decrease the likelihood of residents’ oppositional behavior. High levels of tourism concern diminish the positive influence of place attachment on positive emotions.

Place attachment and residents’ perceptions of tourism development in small town destinations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Silva ◽  
Cláudia Seabra ◽  
José Luís Abrantes ◽  
Manuel Reis ◽  
Andreia Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Small Population ◽  
Tourism Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Community Residents ◽  
Resident Perception

Towns and cities have always been places where tourism and leisure experiences are constantly produced and consumed and a source of special fascination for visitors and tourists (Hall & Page, 2014). The development of tourism generates different degrees of impact on destination places, environments, and on the local population. Understanding resident perception of those impacts is crucial to the successful and sustainable development of tourism (Šegota, Mihalič & Kuščer, 2017). Residents are the most important destination stakeholders and, because of that, they should participate in the planning of sustainable tourism development in order to control the impacts of tourism on the places where they live (Lawton & Weaver, 2015; Garrod, Fyall, Leask & Reid, 2012). As a consequence, it is important to establish awareness of host communities’ experiences, perceptions, and attitudes towards sustainable tourism development, particularly in locations with a small population base (Thompson-Fawcett & McGregor, 2011). Once a community becomes a tourist destination, the lives of its residents become affected. Even though most of the studies conducted on tourism impacts focused on economic, social, and environmental wellbeing, the central question is still the need to understand how community residents perceive the impacts of tourism (Kim, Uysal, & Sirgy, 2013). Another crucial concept regarding sustainable tourism development is place attachment, commonly defined as the emotional bond between an individual and a specific place (Manzo, 2003). However, affection, emotions, and feelings are not the only concepts of place attachment. Cognition and practice are important as well (Low & Altman, 1992; Vorkinn & Riese, 2001). People may feel attached to a place because of emotional and social ties, but also because of the physical aspects of the place (Hidalgo & Hernández, 2001; Lewicka, 2011). Places are above all social constructions and include physical, social, and psychological connotations that help build attachment (Knez, 2014).

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