Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model
By Haywantee Ramkissoon. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020
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Abstract Residents’ overall well-being and quality-of-life require a deeper understanding of their perceived social impacts of tourism to determine appropriate management strategies to promote behaviours in support of tourism development. Aligning with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, this paper proposes a new framework for residents’ quality-of-life. Bringing together multi-disciplinary evidence from environmental, social and cognitive psychology, political science and tourism, this study critically examines how residents’ perceived social impacts of tourism and their interpersonal trust can make them become more place attached and protect their tourism resources. The framework proposes that residents’ perceived social impacts of tourism exerts a direct influence on residents’ interpersonal trust. It further posits that residents’ perceived social impacts of tourism and their interpersonal trust exert a direct influence on residents’ place attachment. The proposed model further considers place attachment to exert a direct influence on residents’ pro-social and pro-environmental behavioural intentions. Pro-social behaviour is proposed to influence pro-environmental behaviour. Further pro-social and pro-environmental behaviours are proposed to influence residents’ support for tourism development. The framework then considers residents’ support for tourism development to exert a direct influence on residents’ overall quality-of-life. The theoretical contributions, practical implications for sustainable community tourism and sustainable tourism in general and the limitations of the study are discussed.
Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Antecedents and Outcomes of Resident Empowerment through Tourism (2021, neutral): “The pandemic has reinforced the need for residents to be recognized as an important stakeholder in tourism (Ramkissoon 2020a, 2020b); this further demands that we investigate how residents’ empowerment influences their place attachment to better prepare for the post-pandemic context.”
- Rural tourism: A systematic literature review on definitions and challenges (2021, positive): “Although the residents tend to be more supportive of tourism development in the pandemic situation (Ramkissoon, 2020), empowering them to be self-aware of health risks and mitigation could be more challenging.”