The Mediating Effect of Quality of Life on Tourism Impact and Support Attitude in Alishan Tribes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was aimed to analyze the effect of indigenous people's perceived impact of tourism development on tribal quality of life and the support attitude toward tourism development. The research subjects were indigenous people who were at least 20 years old and came from one of eight Alishan tribes in Taiwan. This study conducted an investigation by random sampling, a total of 850 questionnaires were distributed and obtained 827 valid questionnaires. The valid return rate was 97.29%. Statistical analysis was performed on the valid questionnaires using descriptive statistics and partial least squares (PLS). According to the analytical result, Alishan indigenous people feel the negative environmental impact brought by tourism is the highest, but in terms of quality of life, they also maintain of nature and culture. When the positive economic, environmental, and sociocultural impact of tourism is higher, tribal quality of life and indigenous people's support attitude toward tourism development will be more significant; however, when the negative economic, environmental, and sociocultural tourism impact is higher, tribal quality of life will be lower and indigenous people will tend to resist tourism development. Quality of life was found to be a moderator between tourism impact and support attitude toward development. This study proposed suggestions for indigenous tribes and the government to develop the tourism sector and introduced specific research directions for future tribal tourism researchers.

Turizmin etkilerinin turizmin gelişimine destek üzerindeki etkisi: Yerel halkın yaşam kalitesinin aracı rolü

“…The most important finding of the research is that the quality of life has a partial mediation effect on the impact of tourism on support for tourism development. This result is also consistent with studies in the literature (Andereck and Nyaupane, 2011;Liang and Hui, 2016;Suess et al, 2018;Chang, Hung and Huang, 2019;Lai et al, 2021;Munanura and Kline, 2022) is supported. It is stated that overall satisfaction with the quality of life is an important predictor of the emotional solidarity of local people towards tourists.…”

Research on the Development of Religious Tourism and the Sustainable Development of Rural Environment and Health

“…According to the above-mentioned literature [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 ], the study investigated the economic, social, and environmental-related aspects and issues from the perception perspectives of different backgrounds, and the specific research framework is shown in Figure 1 .…”

“…There are two sources of environmental impacts, the first is the impact of the tourism activity itself, and the other is the impact of the facilities provided for the tourism activity [ 45 ]. The physical environment can be divided into the human-made environment and the natural environment, including soil erosion, vegetation destruction, and ecosystem changes [ 21 , 46 ].…”

“…Tourism development can promote the local economy, enhance the living conditions and quality of life of local residents, and improve existing facilities and infrastructure to increase tourists’ willingness to visit and spend money there [ 23 , 38 , 40 ]. A good experience of the effectiveness of decision-making and development will help residents to actively cooperate and generate the will to continuously promote participation in tourism decision-making [ 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 ], and a good tourism consumption experience will also increase tourists’ willingness to participate in tourism [ 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ]. The perceptions of decision effectiveness [ 54 , 55 ] and the current status of rural tourism development may also vary among different rights holders, genders, and ages [ 38 , 54 , 56 , 57 ].…”

Research on the Development of Religious Tourism and the Sustainable Development of Rural Environment and Health

“…Tourism development can promote the local economy, enhance the living conditions and quality of life of local residents, and improve existing facilities and infrastructure to increase tourists' willingness to visit and spend money there [23,38,40]. A good experience of the effectiveness of decision-making and development will help residents to actively cooperate and generate the will to continuously promote participation in tourism decision-making [47][48][49][50], and a good tourism consumption experience will also increase tourists' willingness to participate in tourism [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. The perceptions of decision effectiveness [54,55] and the current status of rural tourism development may also vary among different rights www.videleaf.com holders, genders, and ages [38,54,56,57].…”