Developing a tourism impact attitude scale

Lankford, Samuel V.; Howard, Dennis R.

doi:10.1016/0160-7383(94)90008-6

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“…For example, several studies have shown that people who benefit from tourism perceive greater economic but lesser social or environmental impact from tourism than those who do not (Lankford and Howard 1994;Milman and Pizam 1988;Pizam 1978;Prentice 1993). Some studies on rural communities have demonstrated predominantly positive perceptions of tourism development's impact on the local economy (Allen et al 1993).…”

Section: Diverse Community Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration theory and community tourism planning

Jamal¹,

Getz²

1995

Annals of Tourism Research

1,162

791

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This paper applies the theoretical constructs of collaboration to tourism destinations and offers insight into interorganizational collaboration for one specific tourism domain, the planning and development of local, community-based tourism destinations. Drawing primarily from the literature on interorganizational relations, the theoretical constructs of collaboration are discussed first. Challenges and considerations in the planning and development of local tourist destinations are then summarized, followed by examples of community-based collaboration research. Propositions are presented for guiding collaborative initiatives and for investigating the application of collaboration theory to the planning and development of tourism destinations, from a community-involvement perspective. Keywords: Collaboration; community-based tourism planning, stakeholders, propositions.R~sum& L'article applique les constructions th6oriques de la collaboration aux destinations touristiques et jette de la lumi~re sur la collaboration interorganisationnelle pour un domaine particulier du tourisme: la planification et le d6veloppement communautaire des destinations touristiques locales. On discute d'abord les constructions th~oriques de la collaboration en faisant appel 5. la litt6rature sur les relations interorganisationnelles. On r~sume les d6fis et les consid6ra-tions de la planification et du d6veloppement des destinations touristiques locales, et on donne ensuite des exemples de recherches sur la collaboration communautaire. On pr&ente des suggestions pour guider des initiatives collaboratives et pour investiguer l'application de la th~orie de la collaboration 5. la planification et au d~veloppement des destinations touristiques dans un contexte communautaire. Mots-cl~s: collaboration, planification touristique communautaire, d6positaires d'enjeux, propositions.

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Section: Diverse Community Viewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration theory and community tourism planning

Jamal¹,

Getz²

1995

Annals of Tourism Research

1,162

791

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“…Understanding and assessing tourism impacts in local communities is important in order to maintain sustainability and long-term success of the tourism industry (Diedrich & Garcı´a-Buades, 2008). A major reason for rising interest in the area has been the evidences that tourism leads not only to be positive, but also has the potential for negative, outcomes at the local level (Lankford & Howard, 1994). It is generally felt that community perceptions toward tourism impacts are likely to be an important planning and policy consideration for successful tourism development (Ap, 1992).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Perceptions toward Economic and Environmental Impacts of Tourism on Local Communities

Aref¹,

Redzuan²,

Gill³

2009

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This paper investigates the community perceptions toward economic and environmental impacts of tourism in Shiraz, Iran. Special focus is on the differences in perceptions between the Old and New Districts of Shiraz. The study demonstrates that there are broadly similar views among the community leaders and community residents from both districts of Shiraz. In fact, a high percentage of the answers obtained highlighted positive aspects environmental and economic impacts of tourism toward local communities. According to the survey, the strongest and favourable perceptions toward tourism impacts are found to be linked with environmental aspects and while economic matters are found to be the least favourable in terms of the perceived impacts on tourism. T-test analysis of the study indicates that there is no significant difference between community leaders' perceptions in both districts of Shiraz City. Results drew from discussion with the target group show that the community residents have positive perceptions toward economic and environmental impacts of tourism with only minor differences with each other.

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“…Though there have been a number of well-received attempts to develop an authoritative assessment scale to measure community attitudes to tourism-notably those developed by Lankford & Howard (1993), and Ap & Crompton (1998)-it was decided to reject the use of these and similar scales in favor of a direct test of respondents' level of agreement with each of the eight principles of resident attitude identified earlier. This approach was adopted to reflect a belief that the current research did not set out to gather resident opinion per se; rather it set out to assess Table the attitudes and beliefs of a range of case study communities in comparison with a synthesis of attitudes and beliefs established by earlier research.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%