Evaluating Residents’ Perceptions of Nature-Based Tourism with a Factor-Cluster Approach
| Autor: | Xiaoping Gu, Xiang Jia, Huiwen Wu, Michael L. Lengieza, Yue Wang, Lijun Niu, Carter A. Hunt |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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resident perceptions
media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development nature-based tourism TJ807-830 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Nature based tourism Perception 0502 economics and business Regional science GE1-350 tourism planning China 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 05 social sciences Exploratory factor analysis Environmental sciences Tourism planning Geography destination life cycle protected areas Protected area 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 13 Issue 1 Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 199, p 199 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su13010199 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the research presented here was to empirically assess resident perceptions of tourism development around the Changbai Mountain Biosphere Reserve (CMBR), a protected area straddling the China and North Korea border. Several theoretical approaches to the assessment of local resident attitudes towards tourism were reviewed and integrated into a novel factor-cluster assessment of residents in Erdaobaihe, the community most adjacent to CMBR. This analysis quantitatively grouped residents based on their perceptions of tourism&rsquo s economic, social, cultural, and environmental consequences for the town. An exploratory factor analysis of resident perceptual items first revealed six perception domains, and a subsequent cluster analysis then identified four distinct groups of residents based on these perceptions. A descriptive profile of each cluster and the significant differences among clusters are provided. Advancing our theoretical understanding of resident perspectives of tourism development, this cluster-based segmentation approach, demonstrated here, holds much promise for elaborating on the many ways that residents respond to new and long-standing forms of tourism in their communities. These theoretical and methodological contributions will be applicable to scholars as well as tourism practitioners and policy makers. |
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