Description
Book SynopsisThis book offers a fresh perspective of on some of the cutting-edge methodological approaches being used among scholars conducting work on social impacts of tourism. These works are international in focus, spanning across Europe (e.g., Austria, Croatia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey) and Asia (e.g., Hong Kong, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Turkey). The authors employ qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs and some of the notable focus areas include comparative studies of residents' perspectives of tourism (i.e., involving impacts of various forms of tourism and community children's perceptions of tourism); statistical techniques such as multigroup invariance analysis and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis; and the employment of novel measurement tools such as the implicit association test involving residents' implicit stereotypes of visitors from multiple countries and the utilization of the human-scale development to identify
Table of Contents
Introduction: Methodological advancements in social impacts of tourism research 1. Do residents differentiate between the impacts of tourism, cruise tourism, and Airbnb tourism? 2. Towards advancing theory and methods on tourism development from residents’ perspectives: Developing a framework on the pathway to impact 3. The effect of minority residents’ attitudes and emotional solidarity on ethnic neighborhood tourism: a multigroup invariance analysis 4. Assessing explicit and implicit stereotypes in tourism: self-reports and implicit association test 5. Interferences generated on the well-being of local communities by the activity of online platforms for tourist accommodation 6. Towards sustainable tourism development in a mature destination: measuring multi-group in variance between residents and visitors’ attitudes with high use of accommodation-sharing platforms 7. Social impacts of mega-events: a systematic narrative review and research agenda 8. Exploring the neglected voices of children in sustainable tourism development: a comparative study in six European tourist destinations
