The Relationship Between Resident Attitudes Toward Tourism and Support for Further General and Forest-Related Tourism Development

Author: Kuvan, Yalçin

Source: Tourism Analysis, Volume 9, Number 4, 2005 , pp. 309-320(12)

Publisher: Cognizant Communication Corporation

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Abstract:

This study explores resident reactions to tourism at the local level in Turkey with the case study of Antalya-Belek. More specifically, it tests the relationship between resident attitudes toward tourism and support for further general and forest-related tourism development. The reactions were measured by resident attitude toward general and forest-related tourism's impacts, and opinions about general and forest-related tourism development in the future. In this context, the main objective of the study was to investigate resident attitudes toward tourism's impacts and how they related to general and forest-related tourism development. Although residents in Belek recognized the existence of tourism's environmental and economic costs, more specifically forest-related costs, they supported further tourism development without the expansion on the forest lands resulting from mass tourism activities.

Keywords: FOREST; FOREST AND TOURISM; RESIDENT ATTITUDES; SUPPORT FOR TOURISM; FOREST-RELATED TOURISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/108354205789807247

Publication date: 2005-01-01

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The aim of Tourism Analysis is to promote a forum for practitioners and academicians in the fields of Leisure, Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality (LRTH). As a interdisciplinary journal, it is an appropriate outlet for articles, research notes, and computer software packages designed to be of interest, concern, and of applied value to its audience of professionals, scholars, and students of LRTH programs the world over.