“…Residents' quality of life is well researched across disciplines notably in community health, social and environmental psychology, urban planning, design and infrastructure (Grum & Grum, 2020;Kim, 2013;Perlaviciute & Steg, 2018;Zhang & Ma, 2020) among others. It has also been attracting significant interest in tourism research for the past three decades (Croes et al, 2018;Kirillova et al, 2020;Sirgy et al, 2017;Uysal et al, 2020;Woo et al, 2016). Improving residents' quality of life remains one of the main concerns of several nations.…”