A Study of Relationship between Individual Benefit and Tourism Impact Perceptions for Residents from Historical & Cultural Metropolis of China

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10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tourism impact; resident perception, social exchange, individual benefit

Abstract

On the basis of literature review and the social exchange theory, this study directed at the residents’ tourism correlation of tourism destinations, the utilization of tourism resources, the participation in local decision-making, the attitude to environmental protection, the perception of individual benefit and loss as well as the variate model and hypothesis path of the variable of resident tourism impact. Based on the above-mentioned, this research employed the questionnaire survey in a case study of Nanjing City in China to obtain primary data as analysis resources. Meanwhile, in order to analyze the individual benefit and the collective model of tourism impact perception, this research tested variables by using the sub-model confirmatory analysis. This study could provide the prospective, healthy and sustainable development of tourism destinations with scientific evidence along with encouragement strategies on residents in tourism destinations.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yingzhi Guo
AU  - Xiaoming Li
AU  - Qiulin Wang
AU  - Chun Zhou
PY  - 2013/10
DA  - 2013/10
TI  - A Study of Relationship between Individual Benefit and Tourism Impact Perceptions for Residents from Historical & Cultural Metropolis of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Academic Workshop on Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 197
EP  - 201
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.42
DO  - 10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.42
ID  - Guo2013/10
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