Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate the differences between residents and visitors in their attitudes and behaviours towards sustainable tourism. The study examines the validity of the 21-item version of SUS-TAS, measuring invariance between residents’ and visitors’ attitudes in Madrid, a mature tourist destination with high use of accommodation-sharing platforms, in order to have a new testable tool for future sustainable planning. For multi-group invariance assessment, the Spanish version of the SUS-TAS for residents and the version for visitors are validated separately following a first-order, seven-factor model. The multi-group confirmatory factor analysis showed full configural invariance, partial metric invariance and partial scalar invariance across residents and visitors. Findings suggest that the main variations between residents and visitors were related to the “community-centered economy” and “maximizing community participation” constructs. To conclude, SUS-TAS can be used to measure residents’ and visitors’ attitudes towards sustainable tourism in a context with high use of accommodation-sharing platforms. Implications for future research and limitations are discussed.

摘要

本研究的目的是评估居民和游客对可持续旅游的态度和行为的差异。该研究检验了 SUS-TAS 的 21 项版本的有效性，测量马德里居民和游客态度之间的不变性，马德里是一个使用住宿共享平台的成熟旅游目的地，以便有一个新的可测试工具未来的可持续规划。对于多组不变性评估，西班牙语版本的居民 SUS-TAS 和访客版本分别按照一阶七因素模型进行验证。多组验证性因素分析显示居民和访客的完全配置不变性、部分度量不变性和部分标量不变性。调查结果表明，居民和游客之间的主要差异与“以社区为中心的经济”和“最大化社区参与”的结构有关。总之，SUS-TAS 可用于衡量居民和游客在住宿共享平台使用率较高的情况下对可持续旅游的态度。讨论了对未来研究的影响和局限性。