Destination Social Responsibility and Residents’ Quality of Life: The Mediating Role of Multidimensional Impacts of Tourism

ABSTRACT

This research explored the relationships between destination social responsibility, tourism impacts, and residents’ quality of life based on stakeholder and social exchange theories. We collected data from the responses of 452 inhabitants in Saudi Arabia. Our findings indicated that destination social responsibility positively affected residents’ perceptions of economic and socio-cultural impacts. Interestingly, we found that economic and socio-cultural tourism impacts mediated the link between destination social responsibility and quality of life. Our research contributes to the tourism development field and suggests that managers pay attention to tourism’s social responsibility and economic and socio-cultural impacts, improving quality of life.

KEYWORDS:

• Destination social responsibility
• tourism impacts
• quality of life
• mediating role
• the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Acknowledgements

The author(s) received no external funding for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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