A taxonomy of hosts visiting friends and relatives

Young, Cheri A.; Corsun, David L.; Baloğlu, Şeyhmus

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2006.12.003

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“…Cluster analysis is widely used as the technique to separate respondents into mutually exclusive groups (Loker and Perdue, 1992;Mazanec, 1992;Mo et al, 1994;Shoemaker, 1994;Cha et al, 1995;Silverberg et al, 1996;Andriotis and Vaughan, 2003;Young et al, 2007;Oviedo-García et al, 2008). Moreover, recent studies use this methodology to separately examine the opinion of groups in order to fi nd out socio-demographic and behavioural determining factors (Aguiló and Roselló, 2005;Bernini, 2009;Roca et al, 2009).…”

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Segmenting resident perceptions towards tourism — a cluster analysis with a multinomial logit model of a mountain community

Brida

Osti

Barquet

2010

Journal of Tourism Research

107

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This study investigates aspects of host perception for the formulation of strategic tourism policies. A community segmentation framework with cluster analysis and multinomial logit model was applied to data of a mountain community in northern Italy to reveal the heterogeneity of residents' perception. The results of this study refl ect the overall opinions of the sample population and identify homogeneous opinion groups. Positive and negative perceptions about tourism in the region generate a division of residents in environmental supporters, development supporters, protectionist and ambivalent. This study identifi es the effect of demographic variation on the clusters and on residents' attitudes towards tourism.

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confidence: 98%

Segmenting resident perceptions towards tourism — a cluster analysis with a multinomial logit model of a mountain community

Brida

Osti

Barquet

2010

Journal of Tourism Research

107

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“…This paper aims to bridge this knowledge gap between residents' attitude and behaviour in an active or a passive way based on several notions by scholars [10,15,17,18] The study investigated how the impacts of tourism activities and development received local perception and determined local attitudes. Furthermore, the predisposition of linkage between attitude and behaviour is explored with the factors affecting residents' attitude towards tourism development identified.…”

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“…Since the 1970s, the interest in the residents and their perception towards tourism has increased considerably and thus academics and professionals have been studying residents' attitudes intensively [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In this context, an attitude is defined as a tendency to respond in a positive or negative way towards a particular idea, object, person or situation and it induces a person's reaction to such stimuli [11].…”

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Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

2018

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Local residents are always the recipients of economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts from tourism development. Residents' perceived impacts, attitudes towards tourism and the resultant supportive or opposing actions collectively affect the success of tourism, but are not thoroughly understood especially in small regions with rapid growth. The study investigated how the tourism impacts receive local perception, determine local attitudes and in turn lead to active or passive supportive action. The predisposition of linkage between attitude and behaviour is explored with the underlying aspects of impacts. Through the establishment of hypotheses of the relationship and an empirical survey-based study in Urlaubsregion Murtal (URM) in Austria, findings from local populations suggest that local attitude is significantly influenced by tourism impacts. In particular, socio-cultural impacts influenced attitude to a greater extent than the economic and environmental dimensions. The overall prevalent residents' attitude in the URM is highly positive as the respondents indicated a sense of openness towards tourism development and the vast majority agreed that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. A significant positive relationship between attitude and support is detected. However, the residents also intended to act more passively than actively to supporting tourism development, but the connection from attitude to specific active or passive actions is not apparent.

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“…Yet the nature of reciprocity has evolved whereby ceremonial exchange has integrated a monetary value (Young et al [3]) shifting from mutual benefit towards more individual benefit. Consequently the current research has contributed to recognising the importance of maintaining the intrinsic basis of reciprocal exchange process, controlling levels of monetary exchange.…”

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“…Research is criticized as failing to adequately explore socio-cultural and socio-demographic variables and behaviours of hosts and VFRs in host countries (Husbands [2], Young et al [3], McKercher [4]). Some studies even indicated that this relationship is not discernible (Belisle and Hoy [5], Liu et al [6], Lankford and Howard [7], Milman and Pizam [8], Ryan and Montgomery [9]).…”

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The socio-cultural impacts of visiting friends and relatives on hosts: a Samoan study

Taufatofua¹,

Craig-Smith

2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper considers and compares the key impacts of the visiting friends and relatives (VFR) traveller and the holiday tourist on the socio-cultural fabric of Pacific Island community's. Research was undertaken in the islands of Samoa. A socio-cultural capital approach provided recognition of the dynamic natures of the communities considered. The VFR traveller is a particularly important yet largely under-estimated visitor segment in many Pacific islands where VFR travellers comprise a considerable percentage of visitors. Socio-cultural and economic impacts can be significant on host communities, particularly as the VFR traveller can slip beneath the cultural barrier separating the local resident from the tourist/traveller. The current research suggested that VFR travellers impact the socio-cultural fabric in similar ways to holiday tourists. However, host respondents accorded less concern to VFR traveller impacts than to holiday tourists. Impacts were largely considered positive, enhanced by the importance of this traveller segment through overseas remittances.Elements impacted varied in strength of impact by traveller type. For example, reciprocity was considered impacted more so by VFR travellers, changing the nature of reciprocity from an intrinsic value to extrinsic value based on monetary exchanges. This research glimpses how the socio-cultural fabric operates particular resilience mechanisms to protect its integrity from undesirable external influences, yet embraces the more favourable influences. The research identifies that holiday and VFR tourism in Samoa does impact the socio-cultural fabric in a myriad of ways, some positive and others negative.

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A taxonomy of hosts visiting friends and relatives

Cited by 108 publications

References 25 publications

Segmenting resident perceptions towards tourism — a cluster analysis with a multinomial logit model of a mountain community

Segmenting resident perceptions towards tourism — a cluster analysis with a multinomial logit model of a mountain community

Local Perception of Impact-Attitudes-Actions towards Tourism Development in the Urlaubsregion Murtal in Austria

The socio-cultural impacts of visiting friends and relatives on hosts: a Samoan study

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