A Spatial Method for Assessing Resident and Visitor Attitudes Towards Tourism Growth and Development

By Christopher M. Raymond, Gregory Brown. 2007

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Few tourism planning methods include spatial survey techniques that explicitly identify place-based development preferences. In this study, we compare attitudes towards tourism development in the Otways region of Victoria, Australia, using traditional survey research questions and a contemporary method for measuring spatial preferences for development. Results from the survey data show conditional support for tourism growth and development in the Otway Hinterland and along the Otway Coast irrespective of residence distance from the tourism core; however, results from spatial attribute data show there are place-specific differences in ‘acceptable development’ and ‘inappropriate development’ preferences. We suggest that the spatial attribute method is an inclusive process that can potentially bridge pro-development and anti-development responses that emerge during community consultation by providing development preference data that is scaleable to both local and regional scales.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Can Tourists Experience Emotional Solidarity with Residents? Testing Durkheim’s Model from a New Perspective (2013, background): “In addition, the relationship between residents and tourists from the perspective of the latter is still largely missing from the literature (Raymond and Brown 2007).”
Methods for identifying land use conflict potential using participatory mapping (2014, methodology): “The values typology was based on previous empirical work (Raymond & Brown, 2006, 2007), with the exception of natural significance and cultural significance.”
Integrating local and scientific knowledge for environmental management. (2010, background): “We then use this framework to compare three knowledge integration case studies: the United Kingdom Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) funded Sustainable Uplands Project, the Solomon Islands Livelihoods and Change project and the Otways Region (Victoria, Australia) social values mapping project.”
Public Participation GIS: A New Method for Use in National Forest Planning (2009, background): “…systems are closely linked (Alessa et al. 2008), to measure preferences for tourism and residential development (Brown 2006), to identify priority areas for conservation (Pfueller et al. 2006, Raymond and Brown 2007), and to identify park and open space values for urban park planning (Brown 2008).”
Linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing: A Nexus Webs approach (2018, background): “…relevant ideologies, 633 including values about nature and conservation, and even the acceptability of development in areas 634 of high ecosystem value, are not evenly distributed over space (Butz & Eyles, 1997; Hemson, 635 Maclennan, Mills, Johnson, & Macdonald, 2009; Raymond & Brown, 2007).”