Residents’ impact perceptions of and attitudes towards tourism development: a meta-analysis

ABSTRACT

Applying a meta-analysis approach, this study examines the applicability of SET on explaining residents’ impact perceptions of and attitudes toward tourism development. Findings confirm the applicability of SET in tourism impact studies when assessing the impacts of perceived benefits (positive impacts) on support. Findings reveal that perceived benefits produce substantial effects on support while perceived costs (negative impacts) have trivial effects, which suggest that measures and indicators used to assess residents perceptions of perceived costs (negative impacts) may have validity problems. Moreover, a closer examination of the mean effects of five exogenous determinants of impact perceptions reveal that none of those variables have significant effects on the perceptions of negative impacts further suggesting possible problems with the operationalization of negative impact perceptions. Findings clearly suggest that a closer examination of the measurement items used to assess the negative impact perceptions of tourism impacts is needed.

摘要

本研究采用元分析方法，探讨SET在解释居民对旅游发展的影响认知与态度上的适用性。研究结果证实了SET在评估感知利益（正面影响）对支持的影响时对旅游影响研究的适用性。研究结果显示，知觉利益对支持有显著影响，而知觉成本（负面影响）影响不大，这表明用于评估居民知觉成本（负面影响）的措施和指标可能有效性问题。此外，对影响知觉的五个外生决定因素的平均效应进行更仔细的检查表明，这些变量中没有一个对负面影响的知觉有显著影响，进一步表明负面影响知觉的操作可能存在问题。研究结果清楚地表明，需要更仔细地检查用于评估旅游影响的负面影响感知的测量项目。

KEYWORDS:

• Tourism impacts
• resident’s support
• resident’s attitudes
• meta-analysis

Additional information

Funding

1. Graduate Education Innovation Program, by Guangdong Department of Education, China, 2017, No. 2017JGXM-ZD03.2. Graduate English Course, by South China University of Technology, 2018.