ABSTRACT

This methodologically focused paper introduces construal level theory of psychological distance (CLT) as a useful framework for tourism and community researchers and planners. This paper compares how residents’ affective responses of satisfaction vary across envisioned scenarios pertaining to local tourism sites, presented with varying degrees of detail and geographic specificity. Two scenarios are tested across three sites of interest, comparing residents’ responses to the sites envisioned generally to the same sites envisioned with tourists visiting. To pinpoint endogenous factors influencing differences in responses, resident subgroups pertaining to neighborhood, work sector, and frequency encountering tourists are compared, reflecting the specific context of a re-emerging, post-war destination. This research suggests that CLT can be a valuable tool to help tourism planners understand the complexities of affective dimensions that may be present in destination communities and identify root causes of support or resistance for tourism development and projects.

摘要

这篇以方法论为重点的论文介绍了心理距离 (CLT) 的解释水平理论，作为旅游和社区研究人员和规划者的有用框架。本文比较了居民对满意度的情感反应在与当地旅游景点有关的设想情景中如何变化，并以不同程度的细节和地理特异性呈现。在三个感兴趣的地点测试了两种情景，将居民对一般设想的地点的反应与设想的游客访问的相同地点的反应进行比较。为了查明影响反应差异的内生因素，比较了与邻里、工作部门和遇到游客的频率有关的居民亚组，反映了战后重新出现的目的地的具体背景。