Exploring tourists' perceptions of tourism impacts

By Dongoh Joo, Heetae Cho, K. Woosnam. Tourism Management Perspectives, 2019

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Abstract Unlike how tourism is viewed by residents, little is known about how tourists feel about tourism in the destination. Nevertheless, studies have shown that tourists' emotional bonds with the destination positively affect their perceptions of and reactions to tourism in the destination. Such emotional bonds often vary based on tourists' previous experience in the destination. Thus, this study explored how tourists' emotional solidarity with residents influences their perceptions of tourism and how first-timers and repeat tourists differ in their views. To this end, 404 responses from South Korean sport tourists were analyzed. Though differences were not evident between first-timers and repeat tourists in their emotional solidarity or attitudes toward tourism, a positive relationship was confirmed between emotional solidarity and perceptions of tourism. The findings suggest that attitudes toward tourism is no longer a construct exclusive to residents and destination managers should also consider tourists' views.

Subfields: Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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Perceived social impacts of tourism and quality-of-life: a new conceptual model (2020, background): “…include community benefits, increased community pride and value, cultural exchanges, community participation, sharing cultural knowledge; some common negative impacts are increase in vandalism and crime, alcohol abuse, prostitution (Joo et al., 2019; Ribeiro, et al., 2017; Nunkoo et al., 2013).”
Measuring Tourists’ Emotional Solidarity with One Another—A Modification of the Emotional Solidarity Scale (2020, background): “More recently, studies outside of the United States, in nations like Cape Verde (Ribeiro et al. 2018), Japan (Woosnam, Maruyama, and Boley 2016), Macau (Lai and Hitchcock 2017; Li and Wan 2017), Malaysia (Hasani, Moghavvemi, and Hamzah 2016), Nigeria (Woosnam, Aleshinloye, and Maruyama 2016; Woosnam”