Changing Communities, Community Satisfaction, and Quality of Life: A View of Multiple Perceived Indicators

Matarrita‐Cascante, David

doi:10.1007/s11205-009-9520-z

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“…According to Matarrita-Cascante (2010), interaction between residents and tourists promotes the exchange of ideas which can lead to economic and social progress, but as McCool and Martin (1994) should focus on providing jobs and attracting investments into the community, which can benefit resident quality of life. Aref (2011) suggests the strongest tourism impacts are often linked with emotional and community well-being, and income and employment.…”

Section: Resident Satisfaction and Tourism Development Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural tourism investment and resident quality of life: a case study of Indianapolis, Indiana

Gullion

Hji-Avgoustis

et al. 2015

International Journal of Tourism Cities

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore cultural tourism investment and resident quality of life in the Midwestern city of Indianapolis, Indiana. It is important to understand from a cultural tourism perspective how further attempts to grow and invest in tourism will affect resident perception of quality of life and future cultural tourism investment. Design/methodology/approach – To achieve this goal, data from the 2012 Indianapolis Quality of Life survey was statistically analyzed to specifically examine how residents’ perceived quality of life affects cultural tourism investment. This allows for the study of what city-service attributes (i.e. safety, attractions, transportation, etc.) identify as potential indicators of whether residents’ perception of quality of life affects cultural tourism investment and if there were any correlations between demographic factors of age, gender, ethnicity, and household income with the perception that investing in cultural events and attractions for tourists is good for residents. Findings – Results indicated that several key city-service attributes identify as potential indicators of whether residents’ perception of quality of life in Indianapolis affects residents’ perceptions that investing in cultural tourism for tourists is good for residents. Furthermore, excluding perceptions of cultural tourism investment, several key city-service attributes identified as potential indicators of residents’ perception of quality of life in Indianapolis. Finally, results indicated that demographic factors of gender, age, ethnicity, and income were not significant when it came to affecting the perception that investing in cultural events and attractions for tourists is good for residents. Research limitations/implications – The findings of this study have unique academic and applied implications in the continued study of tourism in Indianapolis, Indiana. This study provided research related to the study of quality of life in Indianapolis and reported statistics for the 2012 Indianapolis Quality of Life survey. The data and statistical analysis reported in this study will serve as valuable information for future endeavors concerning cultural tourism and quality of life in Indianapolis. The identification of city-service attributes that significantly impact resident perception of quality of life and city-service attributes that, in conjunction with resident perception of quality of life, affect how residents perceive cultural tourism investments is important information that can be utilized by future researchers, tourism planners, and policymakers in Indianapolis. The analysis revealed what city-service attributes are important to residents of Indianapolis and demographic factors that affect resident perception of quality of life. The continued examination of these city-service attributes may help to identify areas of public service that need to be improved. Practical implications – This study demonstrates that resident level of awareness pertaining to the benefits of cultural tourism investment are relatively low. Tourism planners, officials, and researchers can utilize this knowledge to better facilitate methods to gain resident support for cultural tourism investment and development. In addition, this research can be utilized to better understand the needs of residents and how tourism and various city-services impact their quality of life. If cultural tourism planners and other tourism officials better understand methods to gain resident support for cultural tourism investment then they can maximize economic and cultural tourism gains for the city. Originality/value – This case study specifically focussed on cultural tourism to better present data regarding this issue; however, the authors believe future studies that examine both cultural and sports tourism could be beneficial. Aspects such as city-services and resident perception of quality of life could be examined from both cultural and sports tourism perspectives. This approach could produce beneficial results regarding cultural and sports tourism investment and potentially highlight demographic characteristics unique to cultural tourism and sports tourism supporters in the city of Indianapolis.

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Section: Resident Satisfaction and Tourism Development Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural tourism investment and resident quality of life: a case study of Indianapolis, Indiana

Gullion

Hji-Avgoustis

et al. 2015

International Journal of Tourism Cities

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“…In addition to rapid growth in energy development, scholars have investigated changing community perceptions and behaviors in a range of other settings such as general rural community change [83][84][85], amenity-based development [86,87], wildland fire management [88,89], and natural or technological disasters [90,91]. Several studies particularly examined the potential causes of temporal community dynamics.…”

Section: Changing Community Perceptions and Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using community-level panel data from 99 small towns across Iowa, researchers participating in the Rural Development Initiative at Iowa State University found that higher perceived social integrity contributed to a smaller decline in community attachment and quality of life [84,85], while community structural factors (e.g., number of farms and town size) were related to local social capital and community involvement [83]. Similarly, Matarrita-Cascante [87] maintained that the effects of tourism-driven changes on community satisfaction and perceived quality of life depended on the socioeconomic and cultural settings of localities.…”

Section: Changing Community Perceptions and Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Community Variations in Perceptions and Activeness in Response to the Spruce Bark Beetle Outbreak in Alaska

Qin

Flint

2017

Sustainability

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Local sociocultural processes including community perceptions and actions represent the most visible social impacts of various economic and environmental changes. Comparative community analysis has been used to examine diverse community perspectives on a variety of socioeconomic and environmental issues. However, as the temporal dimension of community processes remains understudied, relatively little is known regarding how such community variations change over time. This study draws on longitudinal survey data from six communities on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska to explore temporal shifts in community differences in perceptions and activeness in response to forest disturbance associated with an extensive spruce bark beetle outbreak. The surveys were implemented in two phases over a 4-year study period. Results show that while community perceptions on the bark beetle condition waned and coalesced in some ways, significant differences remained or emerged with respect to other facets of local reactions. These shifting variances in community dimensions of the beetle disturbance were related to community positions along the beetle outbreak timeline and general community socioeconomic and biophysical situations (community context). The analysis also revealed community differences and contexts held an even more important role in predicting local responses to beetles in the re-survey. Taken together, findings from this research contribute a better understanding of the persistence and change in community variability as well as the continuity of community contextual effects.

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“…Considered the largest industry in the world, a "driving force" of economic growth, of inclusive development and environmental sustainability [1], tourism represents more than one third of the total value of global trade in services [2]. Most regional tourism plans and policies are based on the idea that tourism is a development option that is desirable for communities [3], as it causes both direct and indirect, positive effects on the economy and the well-being of communities [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]. In the latter part of the 20th century, tourism has become an important sector of economic activity and will continue to grow in the years to come, leading to a diversification of tourism products and destinations [12].…”

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The Role of Tourism in the Development of Local Economy in Romania

Grecu¹,

Karina²,

Simion³

et al. 2019

Proceedings 2019

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The importance of tourism in the development of local economy is a major concern of decision-makers, as well as the scientific world, tourism making a significant contribution to the sustainable development of the local economy. The study aims to identify adaptive patterns of tourist resorts from Romania, in accordance with the Decision no. 107 of 2018 approving the attestation of some localities or parts of localities as tourist resorts of national or local interest. The methodology consists of a series of statistical data analyzes for a period of 17 years, 2000-2016, which contains, at the level of territorial administrative unit, the evolution of two economic indicators considered relevant to the study, turnover and profit. This database was used in cartographic representations, to show the share of tourism from the two above-mentioned economic indicators, reported over the last year of analysis, as well as for graphical representations. The results obtained from the analyzes show different reporting patterns in which all tourist resorts from Romania fall, depending on the share of tourism in the development of the local economy.

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Changing Communities, Community Satisfaction, and Quality of Life: A View of Multiple Perceived Indicators

Abstract: Tourism’s impacts, Community satisfaction, Quality of life, Costa Rica,

Cited by 65 publications

References 38 publications

Cultural tourism investment and resident quality of life: a case study of Indianapolis, Indiana

Cultural tourism investment and resident quality of life: a case study of Indianapolis, Indiana

Changing Community Variations in Perceptions and Activeness in Response to the Spruce Bark Beetle Outbreak in Alaska

The Role of Tourism in the Development of Local Economy in Romania

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