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Can Personal Values Modulate the Perception of Tourism Impacts by Local Population?: Testing for the Role of Product Identity in a Mining Tourism Destination

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Tourism industry presents a remarkable development, with more than 1185 million international travels in 2016. This situation poses enormous pressure on world tourism destinations. The impact of tourist activities is increasingly perceived as a negative question by local residents, affecting their quality of life. In this context, the present chapter investigates how linkages between personal values and tourism development can modulate the perception of tourism impacts by local residents. Social and physical attributes of a given place help to conform the sense of being of the local population. This sense is known as place identity in literature. Mining heritage destinations deeply root on that sense while developing their tourism activities. In the analysis of the mining heritage destination of La Unión in Spain, we employ structural equations modelling in testing for this main research hypothesis. Results of the investigation show that place/product identity helps to modulate the perceptions of tourism impacts by residents. Main effects are found to arise on attitudes toward socio-cultural impacts, where identity issues seem to exert the highest influence, increasing the quality of life standards of local population. In this regard, research findings recommend building on local identity issues to increase the level of sustainability of tourism destinations.

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    See Sect. 8.5.3 for results and discussion of test on H7.

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Dr. Andres Artal-Tur wants to acknowledge financial support from Groups of Excellence Program of Fundación Séneca, Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia, project 19884/GERM/15.

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Appendix: Questionnaire Items

Appendix: Questionnaire Items

 

Product Identity (PI)

PI_1

The Mining Heritage Tourism (MHT) is key to preserve the mining tradition

PI_2

MHT helps to revitalize the mining culture and heritage in the area

PI_3

MHT remarkably represents the mining tradition in the area

 

Economic Tourism Impacts (ECTI)

ECTI_1

MHT generates economic revenues

ECTI_2

MHT makes an impact in the regional economy

ECTI_3

MHT creates local employment

ECTI_4

MHT creates employment in the local tourism sector

ECTI_5

MHT attracts new investments

ECTI_6

MHT generates new expenditures in the local hospitality industry

ECTI_7

MHT generates new expenditures in the local retailing sector

 

Socio-cultural Tourism Impacts (STI)

STI_1

MHT improves socio-cultural infrastructure

STI_2

MHT improves the cultural spirit

STI_3

MHT improves the leisure activities and entertainment

STI_4

MHT improves educational level of people

STI_5

MHT helps to recover the cultural and industrial heritage

 

Environmental Tourism Impacts (ENTI)

ENTI_1

MHT improves the wildlife state of conservation

ENTI_2

MHTimproves the indigenous plants

ENTI_3

MHT recovers the environmentally degraded areas

ENTI_4

MHTreduces pollution level

 

Support for Tourism (ST)

ST_1

MHT is considered a good use of the land and territory

ST_2

MHT has significantly improved the quality of life of residents

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Artal-Tur, A., Jiménez-Medina, P., Sánchez-Casado, N. (2019). Can Personal Values Modulate the Perception of Tourism Impacts by Local Population?: Testing for the Role of Product Identity in a Mining Tourism Destination. In: Campón-Cerro, A.M., Hernández-Mogollón, J.M., Folgado-Fernández, J.A. (eds) Best Practices in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing and Management. Applying Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91692-7_8

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