The Mediating Role of Social Sustainability in the Relationship between Community Participation and Support for Tourism

Begum Dilara Emiroglu
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Begum Dilara Emiroglu: Sırnak University, Tourism and Hotel Management College

Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, 2025, vol. 13, issue 2, 105-125

Abstract: This study aims to evaluate the perceptions of residents in Mardin, one of Turkey’s most significant cultural tour ism destinations, regarding community participation, social sustainability, and support for tourism. The study also examines whether social sustainability mediates the relationship between community participation and support for tourism. In this context, data were collected from 617 residents using the convenience sampling method, and 537 of them were analyzed through reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results indicated that community participation negatively affects host-guest conflict and positively influences social acceptance. It was also found that community participation has no significant impact on social tolerance. Similarly, it was revealed that host-guest conflict negatively affects support for tourism, while social acceptance positively affects support for tourism. However, social tolerance was found to have no signif icant impact on support for tourism. Furthermore, the study revealed that host-guest conflict and social acceptance, as dimensions of social sustainability, mediate the relationship between community participation and support for tourism.

Keywords: Social Sustainability; Community Participation; Host-Guest Conflict; Social Tolerance; Social Accept (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Z32 Z39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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