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Author : Girish Prayag & Talia Alders
School/Work Place : SKEMA Business School, France (Girish Prayag), National Trust, UK (Talia Alders)
Contact : girish.prayag@skema.edu
Year : 2012

Social exchange theory and the mobility paradigm are used to understand residents’ perceptions on the impacts of the 2012 Olympic Games and their relocation intentions. Confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 212 residents of London city, surveyed in four major parks, revealed that they mostly associated the event with positive economic impacts, negative environmental impacts, and positive socio-cultural impacts. Residents did not associate the Games with any of the negative socio-cultural impacts, negative economic impacts, and positive environmental impacts. Residents are unlikely to relocate if they perceive the event to contribute many positive economic impacts but are more likely to move away if they associate the event with many negative environmental impacts. Implications for event organizers and event impact studies are offered.


List of Articles
No. Subject Views Date
6 Think Tank XIII Assessing Community Quality of Life in the Context of ... file 4296 Nov 06, 2013

One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However...

Author: Chia-Pin Simo Yu, Shu Tian Cole & H. Charles Chancellor 

Year: 2013 

5 Think Tank XIII Visitors' and Residents' Perception of Tourism Impact ... file 20028 Nov 06, 2013

Tourism is one of the leading contributors to service industry in Malaysia and is gradually growing. The growth of this industry brings impact towards the environment, specifically the water quality of islands. This study views into the visi...

Author: Murugadas Ramdas & Badaruddin Mohamed 

Year: 2013 

» Think Tank XII Residents' Perceptions on Event Impacts an Relocation ... file 3405 Nov 06, 2013

Social exchange theory and the mobility paradigm are used to understand residents’ perceptions on the impacts of the 2012 Olympic Games and their relocation intentions. Confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of 212 residents of London city...

Author: Girish Prayag & Talia Alders 

Year: 2012 

3 Think Tank X Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable... file 5484 Oct 13, 2013

The DIT-ACHIEV Model is a model of sustainable tourism indicators developed in a previous research project undertaken by the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism, Dublin Institute of Technology. The indicators represent six fields o...

Author: Maeve Morrissey, Kevin Griffin & Sheila Flanagan 

Year: 2010 

2 Think Tank IX Community based sustainable tourism: Quality of life a... file 8041 Oct 13, 2013

This paper explores the concept of quality of life (QOL) as perceived by residents in tourism destinations and examines differences in perceptions of QOL among culturally different destinations. The perceived QOL of local community is an imp...

Author: Yvette Reisinger & Kwang-Soo Park 

Year: 2009 

1 Think Tank VIII Shared Playgrounds: Contrasting Visitor Perspectives o... file 7051 Oct 13, 2013

Tourism is forming an increasingly significant component of the social and economic fabric of many major cities around the world. The quality of life for the residents of a city can be both degraded and enhanced by tourism and its associated...

Author: Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards, Katie Schlenker & Bruce Hayllar 

Year: 2008 

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