Exploring tourists' perceptions of tourism impacts

Joo, Dongoh; Cho, Heetae; Woosnam, Kyle M.

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2019.05.008

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“…The social impact of tourism is nowadays acknowledged by a number of studies with negative overtourism situations shown as the extreme case (UNWTO 2019). The cultural impact of tourism on local societies is also an interesting recent line of research with standardization and globalization issues outstanding in this debate, where the local culture becomes highly impacted for the extension of tourism activities (Joo, Chob, and Woosnamc 2019). These two issues appear to be well addressed by the PI model.…”

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Tourism Business, Place Identity, Sustainable Development, and Urban Resilience: A Focus on the Sociocultural Dimension

Jiménez-Medina

Artal-Tur

Sánchez-Casado

2020

International Regional Science Review

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La Unión is a city located in the southeast of Spain with a long mining tradition. Along the twentieth century, this place faced a severe industrial crisis. Building on its history, heritage, and resources, the local economy changed towards the mining heritage tourism business. This article describes such a process of sustainable development and urban resilience through a two-stage approach. First, the focus is on explaining how the locality moved from being a mining industrial area to a mining heritage tourism place. In doing so, the study highlights the key role played by the cooperation of the local government and the nearby university. The second stage shows how the new economic model is firmly rooted on the mining identity of the place and what provides higher levels of sustainability to the destination from a social and cultural view. In this context, the article shows how the place identity model of tourism would be eager to limit the negative impacts usually associated with the spread of tourism, consequently receiving further support by the local population. To better understand the second-stage process, the study defines a theoretical framework and tests it empirically through a structural equation modeling approach. Results of the research provide regional policy advices.

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Tourism Business, Place Identity, Sustainable Development, and Urban Resilience: A Focus on the Sociocultural Dimension

Jiménez-Medina

Artal-Tur

Sánchez-Casado

2020

International Regional Science Review

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“…Such a gradual expansion to new contexts and inclusion of new variables is the path that other scales also followed. For instance, the Emotional Solidarity Scale (Woosnam & Norman, 2010) has been constantly tested in newer contexts (e.g., Joo et al, 2019; Woosnam et al, 2015) to enhance its psychometric properties and empirical utility.…”

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Sport Tourists’ Team Identification and Revisit Intention: Looking at the Relationship through a Nostalgic Lens

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Joo

Woosnam

2020

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This study explored the relationships among sport tourists’ team identification, sport nostalgia, and revisit intention. In addressing the research goal, survey data were collected from 487 sport tourists to professional baseball games in South Korea, which were then analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results revealed that team identification positively affected sport nostalgia, and sport nostalgia had a positive effect on revisit intention. Further analysis showed team identification had an indirect influence on revisit intention, suggesting full mediation by sport nostalgia. This study provides greater insights into how sport tourists’ team identification contributes to sport nostalgia and how the two constructs collectively influence revisit intention. The findings can be used in developing more effective marketing strategies in sport tourism.

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“…The two-factor structure of the modified ESS departs from what others have found. Studies have constantly identified the same three factors of emotional closeness, feeling welcomed (or welcoming nature ), and sympathetic understanding whether the focus was on tourists (e.g., Joo et al 2018; Joo, Cho, and Woosnam 2019; Ribeiro et al 2018; Woosnam and Aleshinloye 2013) or residents (e.g., Lai and Hitchcock 2017; Li and Wan 2017; Woosnam 2012). This deviation from the three-factor structure can be attributed to at least two causes.…”

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“…Since then, extensive efforts have been made to test the validity and the reliability of the ESS (e.g., Ribeiro et al 2018; Woosnam 2011a, 2011b, 2012; Woosnam and Aleshinloye 2013), and the scale has been found appropriate in measuring emotional solidarity of both residents (Woosnam 2011b, 2012) and tourists (Woosnam and Aleshinloye 2013; Woosnam, Dudensing, and Walker 2015; Woosnam et al 2015) within the United States. More recently, studies outside of the United States, in nations like Cape Verde (Ribeiro et al 2018), Japan (Woosnam, Maruyama, and Boley 2016), Macau (Lai and Hitchcock 2017; Li and Wan 2017), Malaysia (Hasani, Moghavvemi, and Hamzah 2016), Nigeria (Woosnam, Aleshinloye, and Maruyama 2016; Woosnam et al 2016), and South Korea (Joo, Cho, and Woosnam 2019), have demonstrated the cross-cultural applicability of the scale as well.…”

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Measuring Tourists’ Emotional Solidarity with One Another—A Modification of the Emotional Solidarity Scale

Joo

Woosnam

2019

Journal of Travel Research

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Although tourists’ affective bonds with one another are essential to their travel experiences as well as their pretrip anticipations, it nevertheless remains as an underexplored topic in tourism research. Responding to this research gap, this study modified the Emotional Solidarity Scale (ESS), which is originally intended to measure affective bonds between tourists and residents and developed new scales for its theoretical antecedents (i.e., shared beliefs, shared behaviors, and propensity to interact), using potential faith-based tourists in the United States as the target population. For scale modification and development, both qualitative and quantitative research methods were used. The modified ESS (resulting in two unique factors— communality and fairness) along with the new scales for its antecedents demonstrated strong psychometric properties. Further studies are suggested to confirm the two-dimensional structure of the modified ESS and the relationships between the three antecedents in tourists’ intragroup relationship settings.

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Exploring tourists' perceptions of tourism impacts

Cited by 76 publications

References 42 publications

Tourism Business, Place Identity, Sustainable Development, and Urban Resilience: A Focus on the Sociocultural Dimension

Tourism Business, Place Identity, Sustainable Development, and Urban Resilience: A Focus on the Sociocultural Dimension

Sport Tourists’ Team Identification and Revisit Intention: Looking at the Relationship through a Nostalgic Lens

Measuring Tourists’ Emotional Solidarity with One Another—A Modification of the Emotional Solidarity Scale

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