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Cultural Tourism in rural Communities: The Residents' Perspective
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In this article, the authors examined the psychometric characteristics of the tourism impact and attitude scale (TIAS) developed by Lankford and Howard and applied the four-quadrant model of Bjorklund and Philbrick of social impacts for elucidating the perceptual shifts from the initial to the follow-up study period.About:
This article is published in Journal of Business Research.The article was published on 1999-03-01. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cultural tourism & Tourism geography.read more
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Quality of life (QOL) and well-being research in tourism.
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the literature on quality of life and wellbeing in tourism is presented, focusing on two major constituency: residents of host communities and tourists, and they highlight sampling and data collection methods, and discuss issues of construct measurement.
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Tourism Destination Competitiveness: From Definition to Explanation?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the feasibility of using the World Travel and Tourism Council's Competitiveness Monitor (CM) as an explanatory model for tourism destination competitiveness and found that it tends to better explain the levels of tourism activity already achieved than sustained tourism growth.
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Integrated rural tourism:: Concepts and Practice
Mary Cawley,Desmond A. Gillmor +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model of integrated rural tourism, which took account of the various resources (cultural, social, environmental, economic), their use, and the role of pertinent stakeholders, was developed to explore effective methods of promoting tourism as part of a rural development strategy.
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The contribution of vacations to quality of life
TL;DR: The contribution of vacations to people's life satisfaction and quality of life (QOL) has recently attracted substantial attention among tourism researchers as discussed by the authors, however, most QOL scales do not include vacations: 7% explicitly measure vacations whereas 42% only include items relating to vacations within the broader Leisure domain.
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Cultural tourism: An analysis of engagement, cultural contact, memorable tourism experience and destination loyalty
TL;DR: In this paper, the interplay of visitor engagement, cultural contact, memorable tourism experience (MTE), and destination loyalty in cultural tourism was examined with 320 individuals who have visited cultural tourist destinations within the past five years.
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The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: implications for management of resources.
TL;DR: The concept of a recognizable cycle in the evolution of tourist areas is presented in this paper, using a basic s curve to illustrate their waving and waning popularity, and specific stages in the evolutionary sequence are described, along with a range of possible future trends.
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A general approach to representing multifaceted personality constructs: Application to state self‐esteem
TL;DR: This paper proposed a framework for representing personality constructs at four levels of abstraction, i.e., partial disaggregation, total aggregation, partial aggregation and total disaggregation models, where each dimension is either freely correlated with the other dimensions or loading on one or more order factors.
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Developing a tourism impact attitude scale
TL;DR: In this paper, a multiple item tourism impact attitude scale (TIAS) was developed in response to the need for standardized measurement of resident attitudes toward tourism development in the Columbia River Gorge region of Oregon and Washington, USA.
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Community Attachment and Attitudes Toward Tourism Development
Stephen F. McCool,Steven Martin +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined relationships between tourism attitudes, length of residency, level of tourism development, and feelings of community attachment in the state of Montana and found that people living in communities with higher tourism development have the shortest tenure in their community.
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Tourism's Impacts: The Social Costs to the Destination Community as Perceived by Its Residents
TL;DR: In this paper, a study conducted during the summer of 1976 in an attempt to examine empirically the existence of these negative impacts of tourism was conducted, where a total of 1,636 residents and 212 entrepreneurs of Cape Cod, Massa chusetts, were interviewed to measure their perception of how tourism impacts on different domains.