Exploring Tourists’ Emotional Solidarity with Residents of Galveston County, Texas

This study examines tourists’ level of emotional solidarity with residents, which has never been done before. A similar factor structure comprised of three dimensions (sympathetic understanding, welcoming nature, and emotional closeness) was found as in previous studies. In addition, each factor yielded a high cronbach coefficient. Three separate linear regressions were conducted to determine if degree of interaction between residents and tourists predicted each of the dimensions within the emotional solidarity scale. Each test was significant (p \u3c 0.05). Implications and future research opportunities are discussed

Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research

This lead article introduces the double special issue dedicated to methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research. We begin by providing an overview of five key developmental stages of research within this area: Definitions, typologies, and conceptual model development; the advent of case study-based, atheoretical empirical inquiry; scale design, development, and testing; further scale development/refinement and theoretical application; and theoretical model development and testing. Brief evolutionary histories of the methodological and theoretical advancements of research dedicated to social impacts of tourism are then discussed. This includes a review of the most pertinent predictor variables (along with a visual display of each and key studies) in explaining residents’ perceptions of social impacts of tourism and a thorough review of most frequently used theoretical frameworks. Following this, brief synopses of the articles are provided along with key themes (e.g. resident-tourist relationships, social impacts and residents’ attitudes, residents’ empowerment, overtourism, and methodologies) and salient points of each work. In closing, we suggest numerous lines of inquiry that will continue to advance research into social impacts of tourism. Though these studies were undertaken prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we emphasize that future work should be designed with the pandemic in mind.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Considering residents’ level of emotional solidarity with visitors to a cultural festival

Given the framework of emotional solidarity has never been considered in the context of festivals concerning the relationship between community residents and visitors, the purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) to confirm the factor structure of the emotional solidarity scale—ESS (while examining psychometric properties of the scale) and 2) to examine whether length of residency significantly predicts the degree of emotional solidarity (as measured by the resulting three factors of the ESS) residents experience with visitors to a festival

Mediating the relationship between emotional solidarity and intentions to revisit a UNESCO World Heritage Site: The effects of perceived safety at the Osun Osogbo Cultural Festival in Osogbo, Nigeria

Kayode D. Aleshinloye is a doctor candidate in the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences at Texas A&M University. Kayode’s research interests focuses on the social and cultural impacts of festivals and resident-tourist interactions. Kyle M. Woosnam is associate professor in that the same department. His research specializations include examining the social-cultural and economic impacts of tourism, resident-tourist interactions within tourist destinations, and sustainable tourism development and planning.Oral Presentatio

A Citation Analysis of Articles Published in the Top-Ranking Tourism Journals (2001-2010)

This paper analyses the citations received by research papers in the three top-tier tourism journals, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research, and Tourism Management from 2001 to 2010. ANOVA tests and post-hoc tests shows that mean citation counts in both SSCI and Scopus received by research papers in the three journals were significantly different from each other. Similarly, mean numbers of tourism articles citing the same research papers were also significant for both SSCI and Scopus. Furthermore, OLS regression analysis revealed that the issue in which the article appeared, its order in the issue, and the number of pages significantly influenced total citation counts as well as citations from tourism articles received by research papers in all three journals

Modifying the Inclusion of Other in Self (IOS) Scale and comparing residents’ and tourists’ perceived closeness with one another

A limitation of the IOS is that it does not account for distances individuals feel apart from one another. This work seeks to add an additional category to the traditional 7-point scale to account for no overlap between residents and tourists. The modified IOS displayed high reliability. An independent samples t-test revealed a significant difference between tourists’ (M = 4.58) and residents’ (M = 4.13) emotional closeness with one another. Future research opportunities are offered including further modification of the IOS to provide an equal number of response categories of a negative relationship (i.e., dislike) and positive relationship (i.e., closeness)

Measuring Resident Perceptions of Economically Benefiting from Tourism

At the core of the resident attitudes literature is the general understanding that the more residents benefit financially from tourism, the more they tend to support it. While this relationship is a central tenet of the resident attitude literature, previous research has approached the measurement of resident perceptions of economically benefiting from tourism rather haphazardly using four disparate directions without a common reliable and valid scale. With this in mind, this study seeks to develop the Economic Benefit from Tourism Scale (EBTS). The scale’s development follows Churchill’s (1979) recommendations for scale development and uses three separate data collections across the United States of America and Poland to purify the scale and demonstrate its reliability and validity within an international context. Results from the confirmatory factor analyses confirm the EBTS’ international validity. Suggestions for how to include the scale within future data collections to strengthen Social Exchange Theory are presented

Introduction to the handbook on the tourist experience: Design, marketing and management

This chapter introduces the Handbook on the Tourist Experience: Design, Marketing and Management. In so doing, it reflects on the experiential approach to tourism and the rationale of designing, marketing and managing tourism experiences. The chapter introduces concepts, elaborates around the current concern in tourism research and practice of adopting a responsible managerial approach to tourist experiences, and synthesises the compilation of chapters presented in the handbook.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Self-efficacy mechanism at work : the context of environmental volunteer travel

This article contributes the first utilization of Bandura’s self-efficacy (SE) mechanism in the context of environmental volunteer travel demonstrating how environmental stewardship, hedonic experience, and environmental SE relate to one another in this particular settin

Reversed polarity items in tourism scales

Disciplines such as marketing and education have begun to question the benefits of incorporating reverse polarity items (e.g., a mixture of negatively and positively worded items) into multi-item scales due to such items’ degradation of scale dimensionality. The tourism literature however, has yet to critique this practice due to the commonly held belief that reverse polarity items reduce acquiescence bias. With limited critique of its practice within the tourism literature, the purpose of this “Methods and Practice’ paper is to provide a literature review of the topic and to conduct psychometric analyses on four tourism scales including reversed polarity items. EFA and CFA results from 703 responses to the Psychological, Social, and Political Empowerment Scales of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale and 300 responses to the Perceived Stress Scale reveal that the inclusion of reversed polarity items had significant negative impacts on unidimensionality, model fit, factor loadings, and AVE in each instance. Differences were also found in the strength of regression coefficients and variance explained between reverse and non-reverse polarity scales when regressed on theoretically relevant dependent variables. Implications for future scale development are discussed highlighting the need to simultaneously reduce acquiescence bias and ensure scales demonstrate construct validity