ABSTRACT

Though residents’ involvement is extremely important to foster sustainable tourism, explanations as to why locals become involved are rather scant. This research explores the role that emotional solidarity and empowerment play in explaining residents’ involvement in planning for tourism. We collected a sample of 415 residents residing in three counties highly impacted from tourism in Central Florida – Orange, Osceola, and Seminole. Using structural equation modelling, we found that constructs tested in the model, including welcoming nature, sympathetic understanding, social empowerment, and political empowerment, explained 54% of the variance in residents’ involvement in tourism planning. Furthermore, two relationships including the effect of resident emotional closeness on their involvement in tourism planning and the effect of resident psychological empowerment on their involvement in tourism planning were not significant. Interestingly, standardized regression coefficients were stronger for the two social and political empowerment factors in explaining resident involvement in tourism planning than for welcoming nature and sympathetic understanding factors. Our results thus contribute to empirically-rigorous, holistic modelling of residents’ attitudes.

摘要

尽管居民的参与对于促进可持续旅游业极为重要，但关于当地人为何参与的解释却很少。本研究探讨了情感团结和赋权在解释居民参与旅游规划方面的作用。我们收集了居住在佛罗里达州中部受旅游业严重影响的三个县（奥兰治、奥西奥拉和塞米诺尔）的 415 名居民样本。使用结构方程模型，我们发现模型中测试的结构，包括欢迎自然、同情理解、社会赋权和政治赋权，解释了 54% 的居民参与旅游规划的差异。此外，居民情感亲密度对其参与旅游规划的影响和居民心理授权对其参与旅游规划的影响这两个关系不显着。有趣的是，在解释居民参与旅游规划方面，这两个社会和政治赋权因素的标准化回归系数比欢迎自然和同情理解因素更强。因此，我们的结果有助于对居民态度进行实证严谨的整体建模。在解释居民参与旅游规划方面，这两个社会和政治赋权因素的标准化回归系数比欢迎自然和同情理解因素更强。因此，我们的结果有助于对居民态度进行实证严谨的整体建模。在解释居民参与旅游规划方面，这两个社会和政治赋权因素的标准化回归系数比欢迎自然和同情理解因素更强。因此，我们的结果有助于对居民态度进行实证严谨的整体建模。