Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts

Abstract

Please reference as: Stylidis, D., . Residents' support for tourism development: The role of residents' place image and perceived tourism impacts. Tourism Management, 45(0), 260-274. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016Management, 45(0), 260-274. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10. /j.tourman.2014 ABSTRACTDrawing on the triple bottom line approach for tourism impacts (economic, sociocultural and environmental) and adopting a non-forced approach for measuring residents' perception of these impacts, this study explores the role of residents' place image in shaping their support for tourism development. The tested model proposes that residents' place image affects their perceptions of tourism impacts and in turn their support for tourism development. The results stress the need for a more flexible and resident-oriented measurement of tourism impacts, revealing that more favorable perceptions of the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts lead to greater support. Moreover, while residents' place image has been largely neglected by tourism development studies, the findings of this study reveal its significance in shaping residents' perception of tourism impacts as well as their level of support. The practical implications of the findings for tourism planning and development are also discussed.

Multi-Criteria Approach for Measuring Stakeholder Perception on the Impacts of Tourism Policy

“…This data collection method is typical for non-forced approach to examining the perception of stakeholders on the impacts of tourism (e.g. Haley, Snaith & Miller, 2005;Dyer, Gursoy, Sharma & Carter, 2007;Stylidis, Biran, Sit & Szivas, 2014;Sinclair-Maragh, Gursoy & Vieregge, 2015). It enables researchers to explain all information about the research to the respondents, react to their questions, and clearly understand their answers within the context of the specific environment of a particular destination.…”

“…This approach is closely related to the concept of sustainable tourism development. Tourism has been seen as a means to sustain use of natural resources, social and cultural development of a local community, and provide income and economic security for a destination and its stakeholders (Stylidis, Biran, Sit & Szivas, 2014). However, tourism has the potential to create both positive and negative impacts.…”

“…Therefore, many researchers have examined the perceptions of stakeholders on the impacts of tourism on their communities in the hopes of better understanding them (e.g. Brida, Osti & Faccioli, 2011;Stylidis et al, 2014;Sinclair-Maragh, Gursoy & Vieregge, 2015).…”

“…As many authors emphasize, the tourism sector has multiple positive effects on tourism destinations in terms of the economic, sociocultural and environmental spheres (e.g. Gursoy, Jurowski & Uysal, 2002;Lu, Wu & Xiao, 2006;Brida, Osti & Faccioli, 2011;Vanhove, 2011;Stylidis, Biran, Sit & Szivas, 2014;Mazhenova, Choi & Chung, 2016). Sharma (2004) characterizes the effects of tourism as the positive outcomes of processes in a territory that have an influence on the developing new possibilities for local inhabitants, increasing utilities of local economies and decreasing some negative phenomena.…”

Spatio-temporal differentiation of residential land for coastal town: A case study of Dalian Jinshitan

“…Urbanization in the tourist resort areas promotes the formation of residential-space differentiation. As a result, the characteristics and trends affecting residential-space differentiation in tourist resorts embody a tourism urbanization effect that reflects the speed and deepening degree of economic development in this tourist resort, at least to a certain extent (Pons and Rullan, 2014;Stylidis et al, 2014;Xi et al, 2014).…”