IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/zirebs/v23y2020is1p29-41n1003.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Well-Being and Residents’ Tourism Support – Mature Island Destination Perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Frleta Daniela Soldić

    (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Croatia)

  • Badurina Jelena Đurkin

    (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Croatia)

  • Dwyer Larry

    (Business School, University of Technology, Sydney; Griffith Institute for Tourism (GIFT), Griffith University, Australia; and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Abstract

Rapid tourism development accompanied by exponential increase in the number of tourists and visitors in destinations can disrupt the life of destination residents and negatively affect their support for (future) tourism development. On the other hand, residents economically dependent on tourism might have different attitudes toward tourism in comparison to those who are not economically involved in tourism. Several studies have found that economic dependence on tourism induces more positive perceptions of tourism impacts and higher degree of support than non-dependence. Another potential valuable predictor of tourism support could be residents’ subjective well-being, enhancing our understanding quality of life under the influence of tourism. The purpose of this study is to better understand local residents’ support for tourism development by exploring their well-being, involvement in tourism activities and perceived overall value of tourism development. In order to gain a specific perspective of island tourism destination, a sample of residents living on a small Adriatic island Vir (Croatia) was chosen. Vir is high seasonal and mature destination with annual number of visitors around 30 times bigger than the number of permanent residents. It was found that those residents who are directly or indirectly economically benefiting from tourism have significantly higher scores in personal and national well-being domains and also exhibit higher support towards future tourism development, than those who don’t experience economic benefits from tourism. Regression analysis of an island well-being perception index, revealed that tourism generates more benefits than costs and economical involvement in tourism positively affect residents’ tourism development support. On the other hand, demographic predictors (age, gender, education, income) and personal well-being index are not associated with tourism development support. The results provide important insights for researchers and practitioners on understanding residents’ perceptions of tourism in mature destinations and how those perceptions can be related both to subjective well-being and the level of involvement in tourism activities.

Suggested Citation

  • Frleta Daniela Soldić & Badurina Jelena Đurkin & Dwyer Larry, 2020. "Well-Being and Residents’ Tourism Support – Mature Island Destination Perspective," Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 23(s1), pages 29-41.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:zirebs:v:23:y:2020:i:s1:p:29-41:n:1003
    DOI: 10.2478/zireb-2020-0021
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/zireb-2020-0021
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2478/zireb-2020-0021?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Liang, Zeng-Xian & Hui, Tak-Kee, 2016. "Residents’ quality of life and attitudes toward tourism development in China," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 57(C), pages 56-67.
    2. Andreja Brajša-Žganec & Marina Merkaš & Iva Šverko, 2011. "Quality of Life and Leisure Activities: How do Leisure Activities Contribute to Subjective Well-Being?," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 102(1), pages 81-91, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sedef Nur Cankurt Semiz & Fatma Ahsen Özsoy, 2024. "Transmission of Spatial Experience in the Context of Sustainability of Urban Memory," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-36, November.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Bryan Cheng-Yu Hsu & Yu-Feng Wu & Hsin-Wei Chen & Man-Lai Cheung, 2020. "How Sport Tourism Event Image Fit Enhances Residents’ Perceptions of Place Image and Their Quality of Life," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-14, October.
    2. Fatih Terzi & Handan Türkoğlu & Fulin Bölen & Perver Baran & Tayfun Salihoğlu, 2015. "Residents’ Perception of Cultural Activities as Quality of Life in Istanbul," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(1), pages 211-234, May.
    3. Salvatore Bimonte & Antonella D’Agostino, 2021. "Tourism development and residents’ well-being: Comparing two seaside destinations in Italy," Tourism Economics, , vol. 27(7), pages 1508-1525, November.
    4. Change Zhu & Christine Walsh & Lulin Zhou & Xinjie Zhang, 2023. "Latent Classification Analysis of Leisure Activities and Their Impact on ADL, IADL and Cognitive Ability of Older Adults Based on CLHLS (2008–2018)," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(2), pages 1-19, January.
    5. Philipp Schulz & Julian Schulte & Sven Raube & Hala Disouky & Christian Kandler, 2018. "The Role of Leisure Interest and Engagement for Subjective Well-Being," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 19(4), pages 1135-1150, April.
    6. Marc Audi & Amjad Ali, 2023. "The Role of Environmental Conditions and Purchasing Power Parity in Determining Quality of Life among Big Asian Cities," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 13(3), pages 292-305, May.
    7. Bimonte, Salvatore & Faralla, Valeria, 2016. "Does residents' perceived life satisfaction vary with tourist season? A two-step survey in a Mediterranean destination," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 199-208.
    8. KangJae Jerry Lee & Seonghee Cho & Eui Kyung Kim & Sunhwan Hwang, 2020. "Do More Leisure Time and Leisure Repertoire Make Us Happier? An Investigation of the Curvilinear Relationships," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 21(5), pages 1727-1747, June.
    9. Çalişkan, Uğur & Gursoy, Dogan & Özer, Özgür & Chi, Oscar Hengxuan, 2022. "Effects of Tourism on Local Residents’ Quality of Life, Happiness and Life Satisfaction: Moderating Role of the COVID-19 Risk Perceptions," Journal of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, Cinturs - Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, University of Algarve, vol. 10(4), pages 274-291.
    10. Okay Gunes & Armagan Tuna Aktuna-Gunes, 2015. "Satisfactory time use elasticities of demand and measuring well-being inequality through superposed utilities," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 15019, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    11. Adongo, Charles A. & Taale, Francis & Adam, Issahaku, 2018. "Tourists' values and empathic attitude toward sustainable development in tourism," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 251-263.
    12. Xinyu (Judy) Hu & Larissa K. Barber & Alecia M. Santuzzi, 2021. "Does Active Leisure Improve Worker Well-Being? An Experimental Daily Diary Approach," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 2003-2029, June.
    13. M. Joseph Sirgy & Muzaffer Uysal & Stefan Kruger, 2017. "Towards a Benefits Theory of Leisure Well-Being," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 12(1), pages 205-228, March.
    14. Heung-Hee Choi, 2023. "The Relationships between Participation Motivation and Continuous Participation Intention: Mediating Effect of Sports Commitment among University Futsal Club Participants," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-15, March.
    15. Kin Wai Michael Siu & Jia Xin Xiao & Yi Lin Wong, 2021. "Quality Open Space Experiences for the Visually Impaired," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(1), pages 183-199, February.
    16. Yu-Chih Huang & Jen-Son Cheng & Lan Lan Chang, 2020. "Understanding Leisure Trip Experience and Subjective Well-Being: an Illustration of Creative Travel Experience," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 15(4), pages 1161-1182, September.
    17. María Ángeles Plaza-Mejía & Nuria Porras-Bueno & David Flores-Ruiz, 2020. "The Jungle of Support: What Do We Really Mean When We Say “Residents’ Support”?," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-27, September.
    18. Maria Anna Di Palma & Michele Gallo, 2019. "External Information Model in a Compositional Perspective: Evaluation of Campania Adolescents’ Preferences in the Allocation of Leisure-Time," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 146(1), pages 117-133, November.
    19. Hui Tao & Qing Zhou & Qian Yang, 2023. "A Study on the Localization of Urban Residents’ Recreation: A Moderated Mediation Model Based on Temporal Self-Regulation Theory," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(6), pages 1-19, March.
    20. Adalberto Santos-Júnior & Fernando Almeida-García & Paulo Morgado & Luiz Mendes-Filho, 2020. "Residents’ Quality of Life in Smart Tourism Destinations: A Theoretical Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-24, October.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    well-being; tourism; residents; tourism dependency; support; island Vir; Croatia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • Z3 - Other Special Topics - - Tourism Economics
    • L83 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:zirebs:v:23:y:2020:i:s1:p:29-41:n:1003. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.