Measurement of sustainable development progress for managing community tourism /
As an attempt of a monitoring system development for communities, the purpose of this study is twofold: 1) to develop indicators of sustainable tourism that will establish a basis for monitoring the impact of tourism and 2) to enhance the conventional model of tourism development within a social exc...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | As an attempt of a monitoring system development for communities, the purpose of this study is twofold: 1) to develop indicators of sustainable tourism that will establish a basis for monitoring the impact of tourism and 2) to enhance the conventional model of tourism development within a social exchange theory framework by including selected components of the sustainability paradigm. An expert panel comprised of 38 academic researchers in tourism using a Delphi technique reached consensus on the following set of 125 indicators: political (32), social (28), ecological (25), economic (24), technological (3), and cultural dimensions (13) for community tourism development. This set of sustainable tourism indicators can be used as a starting-point for devising a set of applicable indicators at the local and regional level. This study also constructed and initially validated a comprehensive scale of residents' attitudes toward sustainable tourism (SUS-TAS) incorporating all dimensions of the construct. After pre-testing an initially developed SUS-TAS, a fifty-one item scale of resident attitudes toward sustainable community tourism (SUS-TAS) was administered to eight hundred households in New Braunfels, Texas. The SUS-TAS displayed a highly acceptable internal consistency, and a principal component analysis strongly supported its multidimensionality. There are large primary components with relatively high loadings of most of items on the primary components. The study produced a forty-four item SUS-TAS. The second objective of the study is to propose an extended model of community tourism development that explains the relationships between several selected elements of SUS-TAS and constructs pertinent to social exchange theory. The household survey collected data in New Braunfels, Texas during September and December 2002. A total of eight hundred surveys were delivered, and a total of 427 useable surveys were returned. Fourteen hypotheses were tested using a series of multiple regression analysis and eight hypotheses were accepted. In conclusion, while further investigation will lay the philosophical foundation of sustainability, academic researchers also need to work on developing effective management tools and monitoring systems for sustainable development. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences". |
| Physical Description: | xv, 268 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 182-214). |