Social determinants of place attachment at a World Heritage Site

By K. Woosnam, Kayode D. Aleshinloye, Manuel Alector Ribeiro, D. Stylidis, Jingxian Jiang, E. Erul. Tourism Management, 2018

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Abstract While the work on place attachment is extensive, it neglects to focus on residents' and tourists' perspectives of the construct concurrently. Additionally, the role that social factors play in forging attachment to place is lacking within the tourism literature. This work focuses on whether residents' (n = 469) and tourists' (n = 461) degree of place attachment at the Osun Oshogbo Cultural Festival (Nigeria) were significantly different. Examining the psychometric properties of the place attachment scale in an international context was a second aim. The final purpose of this work was to assess whether social factors (i.e., frequency of interaction and emotional closeness) between residents and tourists could explain the resulting CFA place attachment factors. MANOVA results revealed tourists demonstrated a significantly higher degree of attachment. Each social determinant predicted the attachment factors for both samples, with the two independent variables explaining higher degrees of variance among residents.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Co-creation experience and place attachment: Festival evaluation (2019, background): “29 | Page destination, such as hosting a festival (Stokols & Shumaker, 1981; Woosnam et al., 2018).”
Explaining conative destination image through cognitive and affective destination image and emotional solidarity with residents (2020, background): “Though the roots of emotional solidarity come from preliminary macro-sociological work undertaken by Durkheim (1912/1995) ( and made more accessible by work in micro-sociology, see Bahr, Mitchell, Li, Walker, & Sucher, 2004; Clements, 2013 ), most recently, research has been well documented within t”
Destination loyalty explained through place attachment, destination familiarity and destination image (2020, background): “local residents while minimal attention has been given to attachment developed by tourists (Prayag & Ryan, 2012; Ramkissoon et al., 2013; Woosnam et al., 2018; Woosnam, Aleshinloye, Strzelecka, & Erul, 2018).”
The Influence of Place Attachment on Social Distance: Examining Mediating Effects of Emotional Solidarity and the Moderating Role of Interaction (2019, methodology): “Tourists’ bonding with a place can enhance their perception of solidarity and closeness with the local residents (Woosnam et al. 2018a), which ultimately fosters a greater understanding, reduces prejudice and hostility, and leads to a higher level of acceptance of people of another group.”
Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, background): “Positive interactions between residents and the host community have been explored in a recent study by Woosnam et al. (2018) and linked to place attachment.”
Individuals’ intentions to engage in last chance tourism: applying the value-belief-norm model (2020, background): “So as to trim this ‘ideal model,’ problematic items were purged from the model if their standardized factor loadings fell below 0.50 (Hair et al., 2018) or if they loaded onto incorrect factors (Woosnam et al., 2018).”