Understanding Community Attitudes Towards Tourism and Host—Guest Interaction in the Urban—Rural Border Region

Zhang, Jiaying; Inbakaran, Robert; Jackson, Mervyn

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“…This evidence suggests that PNBs play a regulating role in shaping volition, thus refining the mechanism for creating desirable images to support a totally favorable attitude, namely a holistic image of the destination image. The recognition of PNBs as a contributor to behavioral intention draws on the theory of reasoned action, as originally introduced by Fishbein (1967), and the theory of interpersonal behavior (TIB) (Sönmez et al, 2006;Triandis, 1977;Valois et al, 1988;Zhang et al, 2006). In fact, our findings support the argument advanced by researchers that PNBs are significant if one wishes to understand behavioral intentions (Budd & Spencer, 1985).…”

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“…Therefore, our expectation is: Overall, the perception of what should be done is shaped by the individual's evaluation of the proposed action, while he or she actually intends to do is driven by the emotional response to that action (Budd & Spencer, 1985). In addition, according to the Theory of Interpersonal Behavior (Triandis, 1977(Triandis, , 1980, PNBs contributes a great deal to the explanation of behavioral intentions (Bamberg & Schmidt, 2003;Gagnon et al, 2006;Sönmez, Apostolopoulos, Yu, Yang, Mattila, & Yu, 2006;Valois et al, 1988;Zhang, Inbakaran, & Jackson, 2006). Hence, PNBs are expected to influence intention to revisit a tourism destination.…”

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Destination images, holistic images and personal normative beliefs: Predictors of intention to revisit a destination

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This research examines the complex relationship between components of images of destinations and behavioral intentions, incorporating two pivotal constructs that have not been explored in the related literature, namely holistic image and personal normative beliefs (PNBs). Previous studies incorporating destination images as predictors of intention to revisit have mostly investigated their direct effect. This research integrates holistic image as a mediator and PNBs as a moderating variable. The findings verify the mediating role of holistic image for predicting tourists’ intentions to revisit a destination, supporting a model that incorporates a partial effect and two indirect mediations. Interestingly, only affective and conative images contribute to the prediction of tourists’ intentions to revisit a destination through the holistic image towards this destination. Moreover, PNBs moderate the effect that conative destination images have on tourists’ holistic images. Practically, the research sheds light to factors that affect tourists' tendency to select a tourism destination, which can serve as a basis for tailoring the effective positioning of destinations

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Destination images, holistic images and personal normative beliefs: Predictors of intention to revisit a destination

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“…In some studies, it is stated that the positive attitude is the result of the fact that tourism provides economics benefits for the region and the people [2]. Some other studies conclude that tourism is evaluated positively due to its economic contributions [16][17][18].…”

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Perception and Attitudes of Local People on Sustainable Cultural Tourism on the Islands: The Case of Nicosia

Yeniasır

Gökbulut

2018

Sustainability

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Today, for the sake of gaining tourism revenues, culture, nature and historical values are being ignored especially in island countries. As a result, tourism activities in the country decelerate and even vanish in time. According to the current tourism understanding, tourists are curious about the historical and cultural structure, which reflects the spirit of the region, and plan their travels accordingly. In this sense, it is essential that sustainable cultural tourism policies are determined by people-government-civil society cooperatively. One of the first steps of this action is to determine the opinions and attitudes of local people on sustainable cultural tourism. In this paper, Nicosia, the capital city of Cyprus, was chosen as the research area and a survey was conducted with 100 people living in this area in order to measure their perception and attitudes on sustainable cultural tourism and preservation of cultural heritage. SPSS 24.0 statistical package program was used in analyzing the obtained data. Frequency, percentage and chi-square calculations were made. Based on the results of the study, it can be claimed that an environment should be created where people of Nicosia would participate in tourism activities and some plans should be made to realize such an environment.

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“…In reference to the tourism experience, it is acknowledged that the host community plays an important role in the successful operation of tourism at the destination (Gursey et al 2002); for tourism to develop sustainably, harmonious relationships must be maintained between host and tourists (Zhang et al 2006). These form an important part of the destination image; the experiences tourists have at the destination may lead to change in image (Alvarez et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such studies have been categorised as community or "extrinsic" studies, where variables that affect the whole community are studied, and individual or "intrinsic" studies, which focus on individuals within the community and variations in their attitudes or opinions toward tourism (Williams and Lawson 2001;Faulkner and Tideswell, 1997). The latter studies recognize the fact that as tourism can create both positive and negative impacts on communities, residents are likely to hold different attitudes (Zhang et al 2006;Gursey et al2002;Williams and Lawson 2001;Ritchie & Inkari 2006), and researchers have studied many factors affecting individual attitudes, including: attachment to the community or length of residence, knowledge about the industry, contact with tourists, political and demographic position in society, sociodemographic characteristics, type and form of tourism, and economic benefits derived from tourism (see Gursey et al 2002 and Williams and Lawson for a detailed review).…”

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The British host: just how welcoming are we?

Brown

Richards

2012

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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Despite the rise in international education, there is a lack of literature on the domestic student perspective. This paper redresses the balance somewhat and reports findings from a qualitative study of British student attitudes to the presence in large numbers of international students on their tourism management programme. Analysis revealed home students to be empathetic, flexible and eager to learn about new cultures. This mindset was attributed by participants to their desire to work in the international tourism industry and their understanding that tourist satisfaction increases in line with host receptivity. A simultaneous trend of segregation in the home and international student body was revealed: this was interpreted as an inevitable desire to gravitate towards similarity in a multicultural setting.

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Understanding Community Attitudes Towards Tourism and Host—Guest Interaction in the Urban—Rural Border Region

Cited by 225 publications

References 55 publications

Destination images, holistic images and personal normative beliefs: Predictors of intention to revisit a destination

Destination images, holistic images and personal normative beliefs: Predictors of intention to revisit a destination

Perception and Attitudes of Local People on Sustainable Cultural Tourism on the Islands: The Case of Nicosia

The British host: just how welcoming are we?

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