Environmental orientations and environmental behaviour: Perceptions of protected area tourism stakeholders

Imran, Sophia; Alam, Khorshed; Beaumont, Narelle

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2013.07.003

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“…A small number of studies explore the perspectives of the community (Liu et al, 2014) and multiple stakeholders, such as government and park authorities (Imran, Alam & Beaumont, 2014). Even though heritage has sometimes been treated as a static commodity of tourism, its associated values are frequently changing (Hall & McArthur, 1998), which is why many heritage management issues are caused by a dearth of interaction among stakeholders (Aas, Ladkin & Fletcher, 2005).…”

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Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour

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. (2015) 'Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour.', Tourism management., 48 . pp. 399-413. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman. 2014.12.015 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Tourism Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Tourism Management, 48, June 2015, 10.1016/j.tourman.2014.12.015 . Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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“…Community residents are participants in the development of tourist destinations, and also the potential domestic tourist source market to support the sustainable development of destination tourism. The tourism practitioners are the executive subjects that maintain the operation of the destination tourism industry and achieve the supply of this industry [4,5]. This shows that the inbound tourists, community residents and tourism practitioners are participants in achieving the sustainable development of destination tourism and also evaluators of the status of the destination tourism supply.…”

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The Perceptual Differences among Stakeholders in the Tourism Supply of Xi’an City, China

Liu

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2017

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Abstract:The stakeholders' perceptual evaluations of the supply structure of destination tourism play an important role in promoting the sustainable development of regional tourism. However, the research on the structural perceptions of destination tourism supply is relatively insufficient in current research on the perceptions of tourism stakeholders. This paper analyzes the perceptual differences among inbound tourists, community residents and tourism practitioners from the core and auxiliary tourism supply dimensions. After having applied the structural equation model in this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of the tourism supply of Xi'an, a famous tourist city in China, were identified. In addition, the findings of this paper are: the inbound tourists have high perceptual sensitivity over the factors of the urban core tourism supply; the community residents have high perceptual sensitivity over the auxiliary tourist supply factors; the tourism practitioners have similar perceptual sensitivity over the factors of urban core and auxiliary tourism supply. The advantageous factors involve tourist attractions, tourist shopping, tourist entertainment, hospitality environment and tourist information. Furthermore, the moderately stable supply factors of Xi'an include tourist transportation, tourist catering, tourist accommodation, marketing as well as safety and security, while the natural environment is the limiting factor. The results support sustainable development and the coordination of different stakeholders in the destinations.

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“…Tourism, which is considered as an approach to enhance community development while conserving natural resources, has been receiving support from governments and academics to help achieve sustainable development. Sustainable tourism is increasingly being considered as a tool for environmental conservation and improving local livelihoods (Imran, Alam, & Beaumont, 2014;Sekhar, 2003). It is argued that sustainable tourism in protected areas has the power to enhance the economy which in turn can provide enough benefits to offset the conservation cost and improve local people's livelihoods (Eagles, 2013;Poudel, Nyaupane, & Budruk, 2016).…”

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“…Tourism development may also result in unwanted consequences such as negative environmental impacts or illegal displacement of local communities in the protected areas (Sharpley, 2009). This might occur because the outcomes of tourism development depend on the nature of tourism development, the characteristics of protected areas (Imran et al, 2014;Poudel et al, 2016;Ruschkowski, Burns, Arnberger, Smaldone, & Meybin, 2013), and the type of protected area management (Gorner & Cihar, 2013;Ruschkowski et al, 2013). Sharpley (2009, p. 141) suggests that environment in destination communities 'is defined by their values, perceptions and needs' which should be considered when it is utilised for tourism development.…”

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“…It is suggested that local resident attitudes play a vital role in the success or failure of tourism development in a destination (Akis, Peristianis, & Warner, 1996;Carmichael, 2000; H. C. Choi & Murray, 2010;Diedrich & García-Buades, 2009;Dowling, 2003;Getz, 1994;Gursoy, Jurowski, & Uysal, 2002;Harill, 2004;Hernandez, Cohen, & Garcia, 1996;Holden, 2010;Imran et al, 2014;D. Jones, Jurowski, & Uysal, 2000;Kuvan & Akan, 2005;Lepp, 2007Lepp, , 2008a; J. C. Liu & Var, 1986;Long, Perdue, & Allen, 1990;Mbaiwa & Stronza, 2011;Prayag, Hosany, Nunkoo, & Alders, 2013;Sharpley, 2014;Stylidis, Biran, Sit, & Szivas, 2014).…”

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Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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In many developing countries, there are protected areas with very strong natural resources and tourism development potential but in a poor conservation condition. Many of these areas are at pre or early stages of tourism development. These protected areas face problems including shortages of financial resources and park staff, and difficulty in enforcing conservation laws. Strict conservation laws have limited local residents' access to the natural resources and created problems such as increased poaching, habitat destruction and local people-park conflicts. This study adopts a case study approach, choosing two villages in rural Iran that are located near protected areas, one with no tourism and one at the early stage of tourism. Both these villages are experiencing challenges in striving for environmental protection and community development in a remote area of the country.There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of local resident attitudes and local people-park relationship roles in achieving both conservation goals and sustainable tourism development in and around protected areas. It is also suggested that incentives from tourism have a pivotal role in positively affecting local resident attitudes to the environment and consequently their behaviour.However, a challenge in the tourism literature is that most of the studies on local resident attitudes to the environment were conducted at a certain stage of development and their results cannot be applied to other stages. Although the literature indicates that tourism revenues improve local resident attitudes towards the environment and conservation, with no study comparing attitudes before and after tourism development, it is unclear whether these positive attitudes are due to tourism benefits or whether the local resident attitudes were positive even before tourism development.It is also widely discussed and hypothesised in the tourism literature that people with positive environmental attitudes are more likely to support environmental conservation activities.Local resident attitudes towards conservation have generally been studied as a single variable in the tourism literature. Importantly the environmental literature suggests that local resident attitudes towards environmental conservation and their attitudes towards protected area management might be different and a distinction has been made in studying these attitudes as separate variables.Consequently, this study aims to investigate the differences between local resident attitudes towards the environment, protected area management (PAM) and tourism at two early stages of tourism development by comparing attitudes in a community that has no prior experience of tourism and a community at an early stage of tourism development. This involved developing six ii hypotheses to assess the association between the three variables within and across a non-tourism setting and a setting with some tourism development in the two case study villages.A survey instrument was designed to mea...

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Environmental orientations and environmental behaviour: Perceptions of protected area tourism stakeholders

Cited by 185 publications

References 58 publications

Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour

Heritage tourism, CSR and the role of employee environmental behaviour

The Perceptual Differences among Stakeholders in the Tourism Supply of Xi’an City, China

Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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