Considering emotional solidarity and the theory of planned behavior in explaining behavioral intentions to support tourism development

By E. Erul, K. Woosnam, W. Mcintosh. 2020

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Abstract Though the tourism literature has experienced no shortage of research surrounding residents’ attitudinal support for tourism and tourism development, seldom has work focused on behavioral intentions of support, especially taking into consideration residents’ perceived relationship with tourists. That said, the aim of this study is to formulate a model that incorporates emotional solidarity and theory of planned behavior constructs to gauge residents’ behavioral intentions to support tourism. To test proposed model relationships between emotional solidarity, attitudinal support for tourism, perceived behavioral control, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions to support, data was collected from 740 residents of the widely-popular Mediterranean destination, Izmir (Turkey), and analyzed via structural equation modelling. Results revealed that each of the six proposed hypotheses were supported in the theoretical model. The three factors of emotional solidarity (i.e., welcoming nature, sympathetic understanding, and emotional closeness) uniquely explained 45% (R2SMC = 0.45) of the variance in attitudinal support for tourism. In turn, attitudinal support, along with perceived behavioral control and subjective norms, explained 42% (R2SMC = 0.42) of the variance in behavioral intentions to support tourism within Izmir. Implications for theory and practice along with limitations and future research opportunities are discussed at the close of the paper.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. E. Erul
2. K. Woosnam
3. Dongoh Joo
4. Choong‐Ki Lee
5. Kayode D. Aleshinloye
6. Yim King Penny Wan
7. Xiangping Li

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Erul
2. Dongoh Joo
3. K. Woosnam
4. Choong‐Ki Lee
5. Wenjie Xu
6. Ju‐Hee Lee
7. Xiangping Li
8. Yim King Penny Wan

Citations in the corpus

• The potential of virtual tourism in the recovery of tourism industry during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, methodology): “TPB can be used to explain people’s intentions in the field of tourism, for example, Erul et al. (2020) used TPB to explain residents’ behavioural intentions to support tourism; Soliman (2019) extended TPB to predict tourists’ intention to revisit Egypt.”
• Residents’ perceived risk, emotional solidarity, and support for tourism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, background): “Studies also identified a positive relationship between perceived safety and emotional solidarity (e.g. Simpson & Simpson, 2017; Suess, Woosnam, & Erul, 2020; Woosnam, Shafer, Scott, & Timothy, 2015), but the relationship is likely to change when residents see tourists’ presence as a source of…”
• Explaining Residents’ Behavioral Support for Tourism through Two Theoretical Frameworks (2021, methodology): “Complementing this work, a recent line of research (see Erul, Woosnam, and McIntosh 2020; Hasani, Moghavvemi, and Hamzah 2016; Juric, Lindenmeier, and Arnold 2021; Li and Wan 2017; Moghavvemi et al. 2017; Simpson and Simpson 2016; Suess, Woosnam, and Erul 2020; Woosnam 2012; Zheng et al. 2019) has…”