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Community leaders' perceptions toward tourism impacts and level of building community capacity in tourism development


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Aref, Fariborz and Redzuan, Ma'rof (2009) Community leaders' perceptions toward tourism impacts and level of building community capacity in tourism development. Journal of Sustainable Development, 2 (3). pp. 208-213. ISSN 1913-9063; ESSN: 1913-9071

Abstract

This paper investigates relationship between the community leaders’ perceptions toward tourism impacts and their support in building capacity for tourism development in local communities of Shiraz, Iran. Pearson correlation was used to examine relation between tourism impacts and level of community capacity building in tourism development. According to the survey, the strongest relationship between perceptions toward tourism impacts and level of community capacity building are found to be linked with its economic impacts of tourism, while environmental impacts are found to be significant negatively with level of community capacity building.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.5539/jsd.v2n3p208
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Keywords: Community perception; Tourism impacts; Community capacity building; Local communities
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 21 Apr 2016 06:51
Last Modified: 21 Apr 2016 06:51
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13647
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