Exploring the Nature of Tourism and Quality of Life Perceptions among Residents

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Exploring the Nature of Tourism and Quality of Life Perceptions among Residents

01 May 2011-Journal of Travel Research (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 50, Iss: 3, pp 248-260

TL;DR: In this article, a mail survey was conducted with a random sample of residents throughout Arizona and the questionnaire included three sets of scales combined into an index to measure perceived QOL impacts of tourism.

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Abstract: Research on resident attitudes toward tourism has been under way for many years. Implicit in this research is the precept that tourism influences people’s quality of life (QOL). Few studies, however, have directly investigated residents’ perception of the impact tourism has on their QOL, and relationships between QOL perceptions and support for tourism in the community. This study is an attempt to go beyond attitude research and explicitly consider tourism’s influence on QOL. A mail survey was conducted with a random sample of residents throughout Arizona. The questionnaire included three sets of scales combined into an index to measure perceived QOL impacts of tourism. Eight QOL domains were developed. In addition, further analysis found that perceived personal benefit derived from tourism mediated the effect of the economic aspects of QOL, contact with tourists, and employment in tourism on the perceptions of the role of tourism in the local economy.

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Host perceptions of tourism: a review of the research.

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Richard Sharpley¹•Institutions (1)

University of Central Lancashire¹

01 Jun 2014-Tourism Management

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore critically the development of the research into residents' perceptions of tourism, highlighting key themes and trends in the literature, and identify a number of limitations in the research, including a narrow case study base, a dependence on quantitative methods, a focus on perceptions as opposed to responses, and the exclusion of the tourist from the majority of research.

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How does tourism in a community impact the quality of life of community residents

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Kyungmi Kim¹, Muzaffer Uysal², M. Joseph Sirgy²•Institutions (2)

Auburn University¹, Virginia Tech²

01 Jun 2013-Tourism Management

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test a theoretical model that links community residents' perceptions of tourism impact (economic, social, cultural, and environmental) with residents' satisfaction with particular life domains (material well-being, community wellbeing, emotional well being, and health and safety wellbeing) and overall life satisfaction.

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Residents’ support for tourism: An Identity Perspective

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Robin Nunkoo¹, Dogan Gursoy²•Institutions (2)

University of Waterloo¹, Washington State University²

01 Jan 2012-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed community support in the island economy of Mauritius by testing a model based on the social exchange theory and the identity theory, and found that the resource-based occupational identity, environmental identity, and gender identity of the residents influence attitudes to tourism impacts and support.

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Quality of life (QOL) and well-being research in tourism.

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Muzaffer Uysal¹, M. Joseph Sirgy¹, Eunju Woo², Hyelin (Lina) Kim³•Institutions (3)

Virginia Tech¹, College of Business Administration², University of Nevada, Las Vegas³

01 Apr 2016-Tourism Management

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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Developing a community support model for tourism

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Robin Nunkoo¹, Haywantee Ramkissoon²•Institutions (2)

University of Waterloo¹, Monash University²

01 Jul 2011-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model of community support based on the social exchange theory, which contained fourteen hypothesized relationships and was tested using the LISREL package from responses collected from residents of Grand-Baie, Mauritius.

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"Exploring the Nature of Tourism and..." refers methods in this paper

...The analysis follows the three-step mediator analysis outlined by Baron and Kenny (1986)....
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"Exploring the Nature of Tourism and..." refers background in this paper

...The subjective dimension of QOL is emotional and value laden, encompassing factors such as life satisfaction, happiness, feelings of well-being, and beliefs about standard of living (Davidson and Cotter 1991; Diener and Suh 1997; Dissart and Deller 2000; Grayson and Young 1994)....
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Residents' perceptions on tourism impacts

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John Ap¹•Institutions (1)

Texas A&M University¹

01 Jan 1992-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: This article presented a social exchange process model as a theoretical basis for some understanding of why residents perceive tourism impacts positively or negatively, and derived propositions from the model to test the relationships between the model's components.

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"Exploring the Nature of Tourism and..." refers background in this paper

...Over the past several years, a number of studies have considered residents’ attitudes toward tourism and the impacts tourism can have on a community (Andereck et al. 2005; Andereck and Vogt 2000; Ap 1992; Dyer et al. 2007; Gursoy, Jurowski, and Uysal 2002; Jurowski, Uysal, and Williams 1997; Lankford and Howard 1994; Liu, Sheldon, and Var 1987; McGehee and Andereck 2004; Perdue, Long, and Allen 1990; Wang and Pfister 2008)....
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...…have considered residents’ attitudes toward tourism and the impacts tourism can have on a community (Andereck et al. 2005; Andereck and Vogt 2000; Ap 1992; Dyer et al. 2007; Gursoy, Jurowski, and Uysal 2002; Jurowski, Uysal, and Williams 1997; Lankford and Howard 1994; Liu, Sheldon, and Var…...
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Residents' perceptions of community tourism impacts

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Kathleen L. Andereck¹, Karin M. Valentine, Richard C. Knopf¹, Christine A. Vogt²•Institutions (2)

Arizona State University¹, Michigan State University²

01 Oct 2005-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: The authors investigated residents' perceptions of tourism's impact on communities and found that those who feel tourism is important for economic development, benefit from it, and are knowledgeable about the greater positive impacts, but do not differ from others with respect to perceptions of tourists negative consequences.

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"Exploring the Nature of Tourism and..." refers background or methods in this paper

...The findings to date suggest that residents who are more engaged with tourism and tourists are more positively inclined toward tourism and express more positive attitudes (Andereck et al. 2005)....
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...Over the past several years, a number of studies have considered residents’ attitudes toward tourism and the impacts tourism can have on a community (Andereck et al. 2005; Andereck and Vogt 2000; Ap 1992; Dyer et al. 2007; Gursoy, Jurowski, and Uysal 2002; Jurowski, Uysal, and Williams 1997; Lankford and Howard 1994; Liu, Sheldon, and Var 1987; McGehee and Andereck 2004; Perdue, Long, and Allen 1990; Wang and Pfister 2008)....
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...Over the past several years, a number of studies have considered residents’ attitudes toward tourism and the impacts tourism can have on a community (Andereck et al. 2005; Andereck and Vogt 2000; Ap 1992; Dyer et al. 2007; Gursoy, Jurowski, and Uysal 2002; Jurowski, Uysal, and Williams 1997;…...
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...This article goes beyond the results presented by Andereck and Jurowski (2006) and Andereck et al. (2005) by further refining the calculation of the Tourism and Quality of Life (TQOL) measure and investigating the way in which the items related to perceptions about the role of tourism in the…...
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