Do Inhabitants’ Perceptions Support Tourism Sustainability? The Case of Khorramabad in Iran

Mousa Pazhuhan (Panahandeh Khah), Nabi Moradpour, Bahar Beishami, Rando Värnik, Yenny Katherine Parra-Acosta, Rytis Skominas, Maryam Pour and Hossein Azadi ()
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Mousa Pazhuhan (Panahandeh Khah): Independent Resilience Researcher, Tehran 1418733516, Iran
Nabi Moradpour: Department of Human Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran 1418733516, Iran
Bahar Beishami: Department of Tourism, Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), Tehran 1418733516, Iran
Rando Värnik: Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Rural Economics, Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51014 Tartu, Estonia
Yenny Katherine Parra-Acosta: Business Administration, Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Bogotá 110111, Colombia
Rytis Skominas: Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, 53361 Kaunas, Lithuania
Maryam Pour: Department of Economic and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Hossein Azadi: Department of Economic and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 14, 1-16

Abstract: The present study attempted to examine the impact of inhabitants’ perceptions and local community participation on supporting sustainable tourism development. The goal of the current study was to determine how local community involvement and local views affected the development of a sustainable tourism industry. Inhabitants’ positive/negative perceptions and local community participation had direct but differential effects on supporting sustainable tourism development. Findings revealed that positive perceptions of residents affected their support for tourism development at twice the rate than their negative perceptions did, which indicated their higher readiness for participating in the tourism development process. Moreover, findings showed that using 16 latent variables to form a structural model and a path analysis method was good enough in terms of covering the research questions and analyzing the dataset.

Keywords: sustainable tourism development; community support; Social Exchange Theory; path analysis; factor analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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