Community attachment, tourism impacts, quality of life and residents’ support for sustainable tourism development

ABSTRACT

This study examined the formation of residents’ support for sustainable tourism development based on the social exchange theory and bottom-up spillover theory. A self-administered survey along with a structural analysis was used. Our result revealed that overall quality of life satisfaction influenced support for sustainable tourism development, and that material life domains and non-material life domains were two important determinants of overall QoL. Perceived sociocultural impacts of tourism had a significant relationship with non-material life domains. Perceived economic impacts of tourism influenced both material and non-material life domains. Community attachment and residents’ perceived impacts of tourism were significantly associated.

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainable tourism
• social exchange theory (SET)
• bottom-up spillover theory
• material life
• non-material life
• quality of life (QoL)
• community attachment
• tourism impacts

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.