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B. Bynum Boley

Researcher at University of Georgia

Publications -  78
Citations -  2563

B. Bynum Boley is an academic researcher from University of Georgia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Sustainable tourism. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 68 publications receiving 1800 citations. Previous affiliations of B. Bynum Boley include University of Montana & Pamplin College of Business.

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Empowerment and resident attitudes toward tourism: Strengthening the theoretical foundation through a Weberian lens

TL;DR: In this article, Weber's theory of formal and substantive rationality (WFSR) is used as a way to strengthen social exchange theory to support resident attitudes toward tourism. But it is not used in this study.
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Importance-performance analysis (IPA) of sustainable tourism initiatives: the resident perspective.

TL;DR: The authors conducted an importance-performance analysis (IPA) of resident attitudes towards sustainable tourism initiatives (STIs) across three U.S. counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia with varying levels of emphasis placed on sustainable tourism within their strategic plans.
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Measuring empowerment: Developing and validating the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS)

TL;DR: In this paper, the RETS is presented as a scale ready for use to measure the extent to which residents perceive themselves as being empowered or disempowered by tourism, and the data were initially analyzed using multiple exploratory factor analyses before being validated through confirmatory factor analysis.
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Modeling the psychological antecedents to tourists’ pro-sustainable behaviors: an application of the value-belief-norm model

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the internal attributes that lead tourists to adopt three dimensions of sustainable behavior drawing on the value-belief-norm model and found that pro-sustainable behavior is reflected in three dimensions related to behaviors that reduce environmental impacts, the consumption of local goods and services, and a willingness to sacrifice time and money to choose sustainable options.
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Place attachment and empowerment: Do residents need to be attached to be empowered?

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between the two and whether residents' perceptions of place identity, place dependence, and nature bonding affect perceptions of being empowered through tourism in rural destination of Choczewo, Poland.