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Author : Ercan Sirakayae, Linda J. Ingram & Hwan Suk Chris Choi
School/Work Place : Texas A&M University, USA (Ercan Sirakayae, Linda J. Ingram), University of Guelph, Canada (Hwan Suk Chris Choi)
Contact : ercan-sirakaya@tamu.edu
Year : 2005

Recognizing that tools developed solely to measure perceptions of positive/negative impacts of tourism within the traditional conceptual works are insufficient, recently Choi and Sirakaya (2005) developed and tested both an innovative framework and a new measurement tool that reflects the paradigm shift toward sustainability. This new scale, termed SUS-TAS, is a gauge to be used for measuring community sentiments toward tourism development. This study is an extension of their original study that utilizes this scale as a segmentation tool among the residents of a community. As with previous attitude studies, it is hypothesized that residents’ attitudes toward sustainable tourism development will not be uniform across the population stratum.

Specifically, the purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to identify relatively homogeneous resident segments within the sustainability framework, and (2) to profile and describe these resident segments using a factor-cluster segmentation approach and test whether there are any differences between various segments of the host population with regard to its socio-economic, socio-demographic characteristics, and selected behavioral and community variables. It is anticipated that this study will provide a benchmark for longitudinal comparative studies that trace the changes of attitudes and perceptions of community residents toward sustainable tourism.

The current study differs from earlier ones in at least one important aspect. It is the first attempt to examine attitudes toward sustainable tourism development using a segmentation tool. Earlier studies have consistently used traditional approaches to resident attitudes. This study recognizes the paradigm shift in society’s attitudes toward tourism and hence uses an alternative theoretical framework as a starting point as opposed to traditional approaches that use such theories as “the social exchange theory.” As the reader will notice, the SUS-TAS scale developed by Choi and Sirakaya takes into account benefits and costs associated with tourism activity. However, it goes a step further by enhancing current conceptual frameworks by explicitly recognizing intergenerational equity, a cornerstone of the sustainability paradigm. Therefore, the results of this research will contribute to the ever-increasing body of knowledge in the area of resident attitudes toward tourism while contributing a practical instrument to be used to monitor resident attitudes on sustainability over time.

For this study, a factor-cluster segmentation approach using a list of attitudes toward sustainable tourism was employed. The use of attitudes and perceptions in identifying resident segments as part of impact studies has been reported in the literature. Although the list of empirical attitude studies is rather extensive, these studies were not reviewed for this paper. Instead, given the context of this study, more recent studies dealing specifically with attitudes of residents and how those attitudes are used to segment residents were reviewed.


List of Articles
No. Subject Viewssort Date
102 Think Tank IX Tourism Relationship Model and Intermediary for Sustai... file 7885 Oct 13, 2013

This paper proposes a simple model that depicts the relationship between community and extra-community stakeholders that will enable the effective development of sustainable tourism. “Sustainable tourism” in this paper is defined as tourism ...

Author: Asami Shikida, Mami Yoda, Akiko Kino & Masayuki Morishige 

Year: 2009 

101 Think Tank X Implementation of the DIT-ACHIEV Model for Sustainable... file 7851 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 

100 Think Tank XII Creating Tourism Transport Flow Maps with GIS: A Pract... file 7850 Nov 06, 2013

This paper explores various options to visualize tourism transport flows with spatial analysis tools and show them on maps. To facilitate implementation of these options, procedures for data preparation and map creation are explained through...

Author: Martin Landré & Paul Peeters 

Year: 2012 

99 Think Tank XII A Global Tourism Geography - The Role of Transport file 7843 Nov 06, 2013

After decades of tourism research definitions and statistics of global tourism, flows are still not uniformly defined. A problem is that scholars, sector stakeholders and policy makers tend to have a biased image of the global tourism system...

Author: Paul Peeters & Martin Landré 

Year: 2012 

98 Think Tank XIV The Roles of the Public, Private and Voluntary Sector ... file 7782 Jun 26, 2014

Social tourism refers to initiatives that aim to include groups into tourism that would otherwise be excluded from it. The earliest definition of social tourism by Hunzicker (1951) described social tourism as ‘‘the relationships and phenomen...

Author: Lynn Minnaert 

Year: 2014 

97 Think Tank V Managing Risk and Crisis for Sustainable Tourism: Rese... file 7662 Dec 14, 2013

Many tourism professionals are afraid to speak about terms such as tourism security and tourism safety. There is a common feeling among tourism and travel professionals that these terms will frighten customers and that the less said the bett...

Author: Peter E. Tarlow 

Year: 2005 

OPA: Keynote Speech 

96 Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ... file 7657 Oct 13, 2013

The focus of this paper is to provide an overview of the current sustainability content in Irish tourism programmes and the identification of key trends in this regard. It is based on extensive research of secondary and tertiary education s...

Author: Jane Stacey, Sheila Flanagan, Kevin Griffin & Anna Tottle 

Year: 2008 

95 Think Tank XII Encouraging Environmentally Friendly Transport Mode Ch... file 7648 Nov 06, 2013

The travel between home and destination is a key element of any holiday and has received increasing attention by tourism scholars as its environmental and particularly its climatic impacts have become widely recognized (Gössling 2002; Metz, ...

Author: Astrid Dickinger & Anja Hergesell 

Year: 2012 

94 Think Tank XIV Exploring Policy, Politics and Governance through Stak... file 7579 Jun 27, 2014

This paper looks at the development of an ecotrekking industry on the Kokoda Track and demonstrates how the use of participatory methods in community based tourism can align two different “regimes of truth” (that of the community and of the ...

Author: Stephen Wearing, Paul Chatterton & Amy Reggers 

Year: 2014 

93 Think Tank VII Getting Fit to Innovate: TUI's InnOlympics file 7571 Oct 13, 2013

Tether (2003) describes innovation within service industries as having a Cinderella status - marginal and neglected. The traditional approach to thinking about innovation has been to concentrate on manufacturing and within that, the role of...

Author: Graham Miller & Caroline Scarles 

Year: 2007 

92 Think Tank XIV Current Global Initiatives to Address the Sustainabili... file 7565 Jul 07, 2014

A number of ongoing and new initiatives aim at the tourism sector with the intention of improving sustainability within the sector and through tourism in other economic and social activities. Dirk's presentation reflects on UNWTO’s position ...

Author: Dirk Glaesser 

Year: 2014 

91 Think Tank XIII Measuring Tourism: Developing a Regional Level Framewo... file 7539 Nov 06, 2013

In the field of tourism impacts research it is often assumed that certain characteristics of tourism are related to the nature and extent of tourism impacts on the destination’s community well-being. However, a standard set of measures for t...

Author: Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo 

Year: 2013 

90 Think Tank XI Learning Network Sustainable Tourism (LNST) for Touris... file 7483 Oct 14, 2013

Since 2002 the Flemish Tourism Board, the executive agency of the Flemish Ministry of Tourism, has implemented different actions to introduce the principles of sustainable tourism into tourism education in Flanders. The general objective is...

Author: Griet Geudens & Manuel Minne 

Year: 2011 

89 Think Tank IV It's Mostly About Me: Reasons why Volunteers contribut... file 7379 Oct 13, 2013

This paper contributes to the debate by reporting on inital findings from a wider study of volunteers in museums and art museums that was designed to empirically explore volunteer motivation, expectations, values and commitment. The aim of t...

Author: Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2004 

88 Think Tank IV Possibilities for Sustainable Tourism Management in Ac... file 7351 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainability is an inevitable concept in tourism which heavily depends on natural resources and environment with its products and services. Here prevention and controlling water, air and noise pollution, habitat degradation is more importa...

Author: Meryem Atik, Türker Altan & A. Akin Aksu 

Year: 2004 

87 Think Tank XIV The Emergence of Cross-border Governance Structures: t... file 7317 Jun 26, 2014

It is well recognized that the local borders of a tourism destination are not easy to delineate as they are constantly changing through complex practices and discourses due to historical, political, and economic factors. In fact, recent stud...

Author: Dani Blasco, Jaume Guia & Lluís Prats 

Year: 2014 

86 Think Tank XIII Resident Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism in Majo... file 7249 Nov 06, 2013

Despite the importance of cities and tourism flows to cities, the literature which explores the effect of tourism on host communities tends to focus on non-urban locations. As different types of tourists place different demands upon the reso...

Author: Tony Griffin & Deborah Edwards 

Year: 2013 

85 Think Tank VI How Sophisticated is the level of E-Commerce Adoption ... file 7247 Oct 13, 2013

The research aims to develop a conceptual model of e-commerce adoption in tourism enterprises. The paper begins with a literature review identifying the opportunities and competitive advantage for tourism enterprises associated with E-commer...

Author: Nina Mistilis & John D’Ambra 

Year: 2006 

84 Think Tank XII Causality Between Inbound Tourism and Economic Growth:... file 7191 Nov 06, 2013

This paper examines the existing studies of the relationship between inbound tourism and economic growth. After a brief discussion of general economic growth theory and the reasons why a positive causal relationship may exist between export ...

Author: Mondher Sahli & Simon Carey 

Year: 2012 

83 Think Tank XIV The Bukit Jalil Legacy: Local Residents' Perceptions o... file 7077 Jun 26, 2014

This paper explores local population’s perceptions of the development of the Bukit Jalil area after the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games. The work on which this study is based is important because it provides a fundamental insight for th...

Author: Rui Qi Chong & Paolo Mura 

Year: 2014 

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