Perception Of Tourism Impact Research Articles

Understanding Perceptions of Tourism Impact on Quality of Life in Traditional Earthen–Wooden Villages: Insights from Residents and Tourists in Meishan

This study focuses on four traditional earthen–wooden villages in Hunan Province, exploring the multifaceted impacts of tourism development on the quality of life from the perspectives of both residents and tourists. Utilizing structural equation modeling, this research examines how macro-level cultural resources, meso-level spatial characteristics, and micro-level traditional architecture influence the development of cultural tourism and its subsequent effects on quality of life. The findings indicate that while cultural resources and spatial characteristics positively contribute to the quality of cultural tourism development, traditional architecture presents a complex challenge. Specifically, traditional architecture negatively impacts quality of life due to maintenance demands and modernization pressures, yet it also enhances cultural tourism through its intrinsic heritage value. Spatial characteristics are identified as the most significant positive factor, indirectly enhancing both tourism quality and overall life satisfaction by enriching the cultural landscape. Additionally, the study uncovers significant differences in how residents and tourists perceive the impacts of tourism. Tourists generally seek enriching and authentic experiences, while residents are more directly affected by the socio-economic and environmental changes brought by tourism. This divergence highlights the need for balanced and targeted management strategies that address the distinct needs and perceptions of both groups at various stages of tourism development. By addressing these dynamic factors, this study offers valuable insights for policymakers and administrators aiming to balance heritage preservation with sustainable economic growth in traditional earthen–wooden villages. The research also underscores the critical role of community engagement and adaptive strategies in fostering resilient and thriving rural communities in the 21st century.

Influence of Gender on Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Southeastern Nigeria

Influence of Gender on Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Southeastern Nigeria

Local community perceptions of tourism impact in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park ecotourism area

Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park (BTSNP) is one of the ecotourism in Indonesia that has been designated by UNESCO as one of the world's biosphere reserve. It is considered to have harmony between ecological and economic aspects. This study aims to analyze local community perceptions of tourism impact at BTSNP ecotourism based on economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts; and analyze the correlations between the impact of and the demographic characteristics of respondents. The data was obtained from Tengger community in Sapikerep Village, Sukapura Subdistrict, Probolinggo Regency using questionnaire and it was analyzed with descriptive statistic and correlation analysis using Kendall's tau-b test. The results of this study show that the residents’ perceived of the impact of tourism is mostly positive (80% agreed) towards three aspects of tourism impacts. Then, it was found that residents who own a business in a tourist area had a positive significant correlation with perception of tourism impact from the economic and socio-cultural dimension. As for other demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, income level, and education level, there is no significant correlation with perceived of tourism impacts. The existence of the BTSNP brings opportunities for local residents to become entrepreneurs. Local residents who own a business more likely to have better perception of tourism impact. The positive impact from the economic and socio-cultural side is enjoyed more by the people who are directly involved in tourism activities.

Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method in Comparing Stakeholder Perceptions of Tourism Impact in Mentawai Islands

Tourism has become one of the important industries in the Mentawai Islands. Some people depend on the tourism sector. The tourism sector does not come without any consequences or impacts, both positive and negative. Each tourism stakeholder has a perception of the tourism impact. It is necessary to trace stakeholders’ perceptions of the impact of tourism on a tourist destination so that these perceptions can be a reference in tourism development that can represent the interests of all parties. This study explored stakeholder perceptions of tourism impact in the Mentawai Islands. The stakeholders studied in this study are local governments and local communities. This quantitative research used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach to obtain priority impacts from both stakeholder groups. Analyzing stakeholder perceptions seldom use the AHP method. The method is different from quantitative methods in general. A mathematical approach determines stakeholder perceptions of tourism impacts instead of statistical approaches. The tourism impact focused on three main impacts, i.e., economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts. The study shows that local governments' perceptions of the tourism impact are dominant in the economic impact (40.14%). Meanwhile, the local community’s perceptions tend to the environmental impact (40.24%). When compared, several impact criteria are considered equally important by both stakeholder groups. Based on this, the comparison of these two stakeholder perceptions can be a reference in the development of tourism in the Mentawai Islands.

University students' perceptions of tourism impacts: a study in Vietnam

PurposeResearch about tourism impacts is abundant. However, existing studies often investigate tourism impacts from residents’ and tourists’ perspectives. The study targeting students is absent. The students’ perception and evaluation of tourism impact must be investigated independently to have more insights into improving the current education curriculum, which covertly addresses the impacts. Therefore, this study aims to examine university students’ perception of tourism impacts as young tourists to provide implications for better teaching of such content in the future.Design/methodology/approachVietnam was chosen as the context, and a mixed method was employed. First, free elicitation with 118 university students was carried out to identify the students’ perceived impacts (109 items, four categories). Second, structured surveys using the previously generated content with 243 and 224 university students were implemented to identify the latent structures of the impacts (3-4 factors per impact category).FindingsTourism impacts can be dually perceived. In other words, they can come in positive or negative forms or are directed toward the destinations or the residents. However, being positive or negative, or affecting the place or the people, tourism impacts have some general and universal elements concerning the economic, sociocultural and environmental ones. In addition, they have some specific and contextual aspects, such as cross-border marriages, child labor and economic autonomy loss.Originality/valueTourism impacts seen from the perspective of university students are relatable and valuable for tourism education. Educators in Vietnam should consider revising the current curriculum to address all the tourism impacts overtly.

Residents’ Perception of Tourism Impact, Participation and Support in Destinations under the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Intermediary Role of Government Trust

Community residents’ support is one of the key factors affecting the development of tourist destinations. A clear understanding of influencing factors and internal transmission mechanisms in community residents’ support for tourism can lend to a theoretical basis and reference for tourism management departments to formulate relevant policies. It is therefore conducive to the rapid recovery and sustainable development of tourism amidst the intermittent outbreaks of COVID-19 pandemic. Taking Guilin as the site for a case study, this study examined the effect of local residents’ perceptions of risks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, benefits of tourism and residents’ participation in it, government trust, and support for tourism. In particular, the intermediary role of residents’ tourism participation and the moderating role of government trust has been explored. A total of 383 residents in Guilin City were selected as the sample for hierarchical regression analysis. The results showed that perceived risks had a significant negative impact on support for tourism, but no significant impact on resident participation. Tourism’s perceived benefits had a significant positive impact on both support for and participation in tourism, and residents’ participation played a partial mediating role in the relationship between perceived benefits of and support for tourism. Government trust played a significant moderating role in the relationship between tourism’s perceived benefits and residents’ participation, between perceived benefits and support for tourism, and between residents’ participation in and support for tourism.

Determinants of residents’ preferences in local elections in a tourism destination

ABSTRACT Residents represent one of the main stakeholders in a tourism destination. They have the power to influence the planning and development of tourism destinations in many ways. They can contribute to destination development directly, via local initiatives and communities, or indirectly in local government elections. This paper focuses on the indirect method of influencing tourism development. It deals with the relationship among residents’ perception of tourism impact, economic, and socio-demographic profile, and their political preferences in local elections. This paper proposes an integrative model and uses the Generalized Linear Model (GLM) for testing this relationship in Český Krumlov, Czechia. The results confirm the relationships between the perception of tourism benefits and costs and residents’ political preferences in local elections. The main factors affecting residents’ voting decisions were identified as increasing quality of life, additional tax revenue, rising value of residents’ real estate, and overcrowding and disruption of everyday life.

Satisfaction of Tourism Communities in World Heritage Sites Based on Residents’ Perceptions—Study Area of Mount Sanqingshan National Park, PRC

Tourist communities have enjoyed the benefits of tourist development in various regions and have paid the associated costs, resulting in different attitudes towards tourism development in World Heritage Sites. On this basis, this study takes the Mount Sanqingshan National Park, a World Natural Heritage site, collects 330 examples of perceptions of residents of tourism communities, relies on social exchange theory and community participation theory, uses structural equation modeling as a technical methodology, and constructs a conceptual model, including perceived benefits and costs, community satisfaction, and place attachment as mediating variables from the view of tourism’s social, economic, environmental, and heritage protection impacts. The study shows that: first, the perceptions of benefits have a significant positive influence on place attachment and community satisfaction; second, the perceived cost has a significant negative influence on place attachment, and a negative influence on community satisfaction does not hold true; third, place attachment has a full mediating effect on tourist cost perception and satisfaction, a partial mediating effect on tourist benefit perception and satisfaction, and a significant positive effect on community satisfaction. Finally, we propose the ‘SHE-ABC’ framework of WHS tourist community satisfaction based on the perspectives of heritage tourism impact perception and place attachment. The results of the study have theoretical value and practical guidance to sustainable development, tourist industry, and community management of World Heritage Sites.

세계중요농업유산기반의 관광개발에 대한 지역주민의 애착도, 관광영향인식, 관광개발참여 및 관광개발지지 간의 영향관계에 관한 연구

This study aims to understand the relationship between tourism impact perception, development participation, and support intention of local residents on tourism development using Global Important Agricultural Heritage as tourism content. The survey was conducted on residents of Hadong for a month in October 2019, and the final 160 copies were used for empirical analysis of this study. For data analysis, exploratory factor analysis(CFA), and structural equation modeling(SEM), bootstraps were performed to analyze direct and indirect effects between variables.BR As a result, attachment has a positive significant effect on positive perception in relation to tourism development impact perception. Second, both positive and negative perceptions of tourism development have a significant influence on participation in tourism development. Third, as a result of applying the bootstrap to measure the direct and indirect effects between each path, it can be seen that only three paths: attachment→positive→participation→support path, attachment→positive→support path, attachment→participation→support path show significant mediating effects.

Influence of Residents’ Perception of Tourism’s Impact on Supporting Tourism Development in a GIAHS Site: The Mediating Role of Perceived Justice and Community Identity

How we scientifically measure residents’ perception of tourism developments and earn their understanding and support have an important impact on the scientific management and sustainable utilization of tourist attractions. This study analyzes the mediating role of perceived justice and community identity between residents’ perceptions of tourism’s impact and their support for tourism development by integrating the theories of social exchange theory (SET) and ‘cognition–affection–conation’ (CAC) relationship theory. We surveyed 334 interviewees in the Xinghua Duotian Agrosystem (XHDA), a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) site in Jiangsu Province, China. The findings of our study are as follows: (1) Residents’ perceptions had both a direct and indirect influence over behavioral intentions. Specifically, benefit perception of tourism had a significant positive influence, while cost perception had a significant negative influence on residents’ support for tourism development. (2) Perceived justice and community identity played an intermediary role in the relationship between tourism impact perception and support for tourism development. (3) The mediating role of emotions had strong effects on their behavioral intentions via its psychological transmission chain of perceptions. The results suggest that community-based tourism (CBT) may be an effective tool for local residents to diversify their livelihoods in the GIAHS site, and the mediating role of perceived justice and community identity should be taken seriously for the development of CBT in GIAHS sites.

지역주민의 관광영향 인식과 관광 목적지의 사회적 책임 간 영향관계 연구: 제주지역 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and destination social responsibility. A total of 280 residents living in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province were surveyed and finally 237 samples were analyzed by multiple regression analysis for this study. The findings are as follow. First, it was found that the destination social responsibility is not affected by the positive perception of tourism impact. Second, the negative perception of tourism impact influences the destination social responsibility, especially negative environmental perception. Finally, it is identified that local residents are dissatisfied with the environmental impact of tourism development. And this research is distinguished from preceding studies in that it attempted to investigate the entire tourism destination(Jeju) not the individual corporate. The result suggest that it is important for sustainable destination social responsibility policy and strategy to increase the residents’ positive perception and reduce the negative perception of tourism impacts.

제주지역주민의 관광영향 인식과 정서에 대한 연구

제주지역주민의 관광영향 인식과 정서에 대한 연구

The Role of Local People’s Perceptions of Tourism Impact, Community Participation and Support for Tourism Development in the Development of Sustainable Tourism: Case of Beypazarı

Turizm endüstrisinin gelişimi ve sürdürülebilirliği açısından yerel halkın katılımı ve desteği oldukça önemlidir. Bu nedenle yerel halkın turizmin etkilerini nasıl algıladığının, görüşlerinin, bakış açılarının, tutumlarının izlenmesi ve elde edilen verilerin turizm gelişimine katkı sağlayacak şekilde kullanılması gerekmektedir. Çalışmada yerel halkın turizmin ekonomik, sosyokültürel ve çevresel etkilerine ilişkin algıları belirlenerek toplum katılımının ve turizm gelişimine desteğin söz konusu algılar ile olan ilişkisi incelenmiştir. Beypazarı’nda 418 kişi ile yapılan araştırmada yerel halkın turizmin etkilerini olumlu algıladıkları saptanmıştır. Çalışmanın diğer bir sonucuna göre toplum katılımının düşük olmasına rağmen yerel halk turizmin etkilerini olumlu algılamakta ve turizm gelişimine destek olmaktadır. Turizmin sürdürülebilir gelişimi açısından yerel halkın katılımının sağlanması oldukça önemlidir.

Community Perceptions of Tourism Impacts on Coastal Protected Areas

The Dominican Republic is one of the countries with the highest growing number of tourists in coastal protected areas. The objective of this study was to examine the perceived impact of tourism on three coastal national parks, involving all the sectors related to these protected areas and tourism. Workshops were carried out in the coastal protected areas studied. The results revealed the poor integration of local communities in the management plans, the lack of information on protected areas, and the poverty of the majority of the resident families despite income of tourism. The findings of this study highlighted the concept of a carrying capacity or threshold for tourism development. Lower to moderate levels of tourism development appeared beneficial, but as tourism development increased, perceptions of the community worsened. The results also confirmed that tourism contributes to environmental degradation, mainly due to contamination of rivers and coastlines, accumulation of waste, and over-exploitation of natural resources. A series of strategies is proposed to minimize this impact.

초등학생의 관광 영향 인식이 관광객에 대한 정서와 태도에 미치는 영향

This study examined the influence of elementary school children’s perception of tourism impact on affect and attitudes toward tourists. The research was conducted under the assumption that there will be differences in the 107perception of tourism impacts as well as affect and attitudes of tourists depending on the frequency level of contact with tourists. It was found that the high contact frequency group had lower perception scores of positive tourism impact than the low contact frequency group. In contrast, the high contact frequency group showed higher perception scores of negative tourism impact. Similarly, the high contact frequency group had lower positive affect scores and higher negative affect scores toward tourists than the low contact frequency group. The attitude toward tourists also showed similar results which the high contact frequency group with visitors had lower attitude scores than the low contact frequency group. These results suggest that schools, community and tourists need to work together for preventing emotional hurts by tourists. Second, it is suggested that efforts should be made to minimize the damage to the real life of the local residents.

Residents’ Perceptions of Tourism Impact on Community in National Parks in Serbia

Abstract The research involved a comparison of two case studies dealing with the perceptions of the local population to tourism. The effects and the control of tourism development were analyzed, as well as the availability of information on sustainable tourism and impact on the community in two national parks (NPs) in Serbia. The survey method was applied on a sample of 227 (NP Đerdap) and 210 (NP Tara) respondents. The survey results identified the strong positive perception of the presence of tourists among the two categories of respondents and also certain differences regarding economic benefits of tourism. Research also recognized a poor impact of tourism on the local community in terms of their knowledge and personal involvement. Education and employment in tourism industry were found to be strong factors affecting the residents’ perceptions. Some independent variables significantly predicted the level of local population’s support for tourism in both national parks (tourism impact on job creation, tourism impact on fostering a local culture, etc.). This comparative analysis provides inputs for directing future tourism programmes and devising a development policies adjusted to the needs of the local community.

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

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.

Residents' Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Miaoli, Taiwan

Residents' Perceptions of Tourism Impacts in Miaoli, Taiwan Hsiang- Yung Feng Abstract Under the rush of global tourism and the "Taiwan Romantic Route 3" national plan, it hopes to promote the economy of traditional Hakka village with a "cultural value-added" and tourism development strategy. This study attempts to examine the relationships between local residents' perceptions of tourism impacts and attitudes of tourism development. It adopts the method of quantitative measurement by using questionnaires and interviews 372 residents. Findings from this study reveal that residents of different backgrounds have some significant differences in their perceptions of tourism impacts and tourism development attitudes, older people have greater perceptions of the socio-cultural impact of tourism development, while younger people have greater perceptions of economic and environmental impacts. These results reinforce some of the past findings of tourism impacts and local tourism development relationship literatures. Therefore, to ensure the positive correlation between perceptions of tourism impacts and attitudes of tourism development. Despite these research findings, author emphasizes the importance of thinking of local residents before developing local tourism. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jthm.v7n2a13

제주도 지역주민의 관광영향인식과 지속적 관광개발 지지의사 간 관계에서 지역애착도의 조절효과

The purpose of this study was to examine the direct influential relationship between residents’ perception toward tourism development in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province and development support, and to investigate whether local resident attachment played a moderating role. A total of 380 questionnaires were distributed to local residents who lived in Jeju city. The usable 373 samples were analyzed by multiple regression analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. The findings from this study are as follows. First, it was found that the willingness to support tourism development was significantly affected by the positive perception of economic/environmental impact and the positive/negative perception of sociocultural impact. Second, it was identified that local attachment (dependency) had a moderating effect on the relationship between tourism impact perception and its support. The paper concludes with recommendations for sustainable and successful strategies for Jeju’s further tourism development with theoretical and practical implications discussed.

Host Perceptions of Tourism Impact and Stage of Destination Development in a Developing Country

This study makes two important contributions to the existing literature. On the one hand, it investigated tourism impacts as perceived by residents in two important historic cities in India (Puri and Varanasi). On the other hand, it analysed residents’ perceived tourism impacts in relation to their evaluation of stage of destination development. A survey collected valid responses from 570 local residents, who display a high level of agreement concerning the positive economic and sociocultural contributions of tourism. Despite environmental concerns, respondents wish to attract more tourists and further develop infrastructure for tourism. Residents who perceive tourism to be in the development and full development/stagnation stages agree more strongly than those who consider tourism to be in the beginning stage that it increases employment opportunities and seasonality and stipulates cultural activities. In contrast, those who think tourism is in the beginning stage are more concerned about environmental pollution and thus advocate restrictions on the industry. Implications are suggested for tourism research, policy making, and planning.