Research on Community Residents' Perception and Attitude towards Tourism Impacts in Ancient City of Xingcheng

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10.2991/iceep-17.2017.184How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tourism Impacts, Residents Perception and Attitude, Community participation, Ancient City of Xingcheng

Abstract

This paper employed the questionnaire method to research the community residents' perceptions and attitudes toward tourism impacts of residents in ancient city of Xingcheng. As indicated, the local residents believed that tourism development had not lead to environmental degradation, but improved community environment. Community residents adopted a neutral attitude on the negative influence of social cultural perception, which indicated that foreign culture had little influence on the local customs. Tourism increased employment and improved income level, which made community residents had a positive perception about the tourism economy. Price increasing had less impact on the community residents' life. Most local residents without highly educated are lack of capital and ability to participate in tourism operations, nevertheless they highly not only support the development of tourism, but also satisfy with the current situation of tourism.

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© 2017, 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  - Mei Han
AU  - Weikang Zhang
AU  - Huan Meng
AU  - Tong Zhang
AU  - Zhi Zhang
PY  - 2017/06
DA  - 2017/06
TI  - Research on Community Residents' Perception and Attitude towards Tourism Impacts in Ancient City of Xingcheng
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 6th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Protection (ICEEP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1065
EP  - 1070
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceep-17.2017.184
DO  - 10.2991/iceep-17.2017.184
ID  - Han2017/06
ER  -