Local lives in historical districts: residents’ perceptions of the objects of visitors’ gaze

This study examines residents’ perceptions of objects that visitors could focus on in a historical district as the aspects of the local lives. Aspects elicited from visitors’ responses in a preceding study were rated by residents in terms of the extent to which each portrays the local lives and to which it depicts an intention to attract visitors. Cluster analysis of the ratings surfaced two types of aspects, which are touristic and non-touristic local lives, and analysis of variance illustrated that some touristic and non-touristic aspects were rated as so more clearly by residents in rigidly preserved areas. The results also imply some similarities between visitors’ and residents’ perceptions

Visitors’ Gaze on the Local Living Culture of a Historical District: its Perceptual and Behavioral Aspects

A historical district as a tourism destination encompasses various aspects, including ones as heritage, as an attraction for visitors, and as a living place for the locals. For investigations of visitors’ gaze on aspects that depict lives of the locals in such a district, this study aims to present some of the theoretical backgrounds and the outlines of the potential methods. This study, which is the first step of a long-term investigation, discusses the nature of the local living culture of a historical district and proposes the use of techniques to obtain verbal responses related to visitors’ perceptions, to capture objects of their focus as projected in photographs, and to record the traits of their behaviors. The difference in visitors’ levels of previous visits is also considered as a variable that may affect their perceptions of the local living culture and the manners in which they interact with it

Eliciting the aspects of local lives in a historical district as perceived by visitors

This study aims to extract the elements that visitors could focus on in a historical district as the aspects of the local lives and visitors’ evaluation of them by analyzing respondents’ open-ended responses about things that they thought attractive in the targeted historical districts and objects through which they sensed the lives of the locals. The visitors are grouped based on their ratings of their overall impression of the historical districts on Semantic Differential Scales, and comparison between the open-ended responses of the two groups is also attempted to obtain insights into the effects of their visiting experiences. The results imply the importance of visitors’ perception of the ways in which the districts are utilized. The areas that the respondents visited are also suggested to relate to their views of the district’s features, including the facets of the local lives

How others\u27 behaviours affect visitors\u27 pro-environmental behavioural intention : a research model based on the case of beach cleaning

This study proposed a model that could elucidate the effects of others’ pro-environmental behaviour on visitors’ proenvironmental behavioural intention, using beach cleaning as others’ behaviour. The model relied on knowledge of tourism studies and environmental psychology, especially the concept of Motivation Towards the Environment (MTE) as well as the effects of others’ pro-environmental behaviour, as suggested with reference to social dilemma theory and the concept of social norm. The model aimed to examine the effects of information regarding others’ pro-environmental behaviour on visitors’ MTE and ‘desire to be away’, effects of the motivations on visitors’ pro-environmental behavioural intention, and indirect effects of the intervention on visitors’ pro-environmental behavioural intention