 Place attachment and empowerment: Do residents need to be attached to be empowered?Marianna Strzelecka, Bynum B. Boley and Kyle M. Woosnam Annals of Tourism Research, 2017, vol. 66, issue C, 61-73 Abstract: Within resident attitude research, place attachment and empowerment are two of the most prominent non-economic constructs used to explain residents’ attitudes toward tourism. This research explores the relationship between the two and whether residents’ perceptions of place identity, place dependence and nature bonding affect perceptions of being empowered through tourism. The relationship is tested within the rural destination of Choczewo, Poland. Results reveal that place identity, place dependence, and nature bonding directly influence residents’ perceptions of psychological and social empowerment through tourism. However, only place dependence predicts residents’ ability to feel politically empowered through tourism. Results from this study extend the model of residents’ attitudes toward tourism by explaining how societal factors such as resident bonding with the socio-physical environment enable residents to become more empowered through tourism development. Keywords: Attitudes toward tourism; Resident empowerment; Place attachment; Sustainable tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:anture:v:66:y:2017:i:c:p:61-73 DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2017.06.002 Access Statistics for this article Annals of Tourism Research is currently edited by John Tribe More articles in Annals of Tourism Research from Elsevier |
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