Jeelani Peer, Shah Shamim Ahmad, Dar Sajad Nabi, Rashid Huma
Department of Geography and Regional Development, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India.
School of Humanities, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara Jalandhar, Punjab India.
Environ Dev Sustain. 2022 Jul 28:1-19. doi: 10.1007/s10668-022-02401-8.
The success of sustainable tourism is inter-woven with the participation of different stakeholders in general and communities in particular. Participation becomes more important in the mountain ecosystems with a fragile resource base and limited capacities of the local people to accommodate rapid changes. The fundamental focus of this work is to measure the attitude of local communities concerning sustainable tourism development and assess the reliability and validity of the SUS-TAS. The research objective required both quantitative and qualitative research strategies. A survey of households was carried out to gather information from respondents. Yamane's formula was employed to select the sample size of respondents. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the data and SUS-TAS was applied to serve as a foundation for the analysis of local communities' attitudes to sustainable tourism development. Delineation of dimensions of SUS-TAS was done by principal component analysis with a varimax rotation. Community members exhibited their agreement to six constructs of sustainable tourism development among seven. This study validates the sustainable tourism attitude scale as one of the premier tools for monitoring sustainable tourism development.
可持续旅游的成功与不同利益相关者的参与交织在一起，尤其是社区的参与。在资源基础脆弱、当地居民适应快速变化能力有限的山区生态系统中，参与变得更为重要。这项工作的基本重点是衡量当地社区对可持续旅游发展的态度，并评估可持续旅游态度量表（SUS-TAS）的可靠性和有效性。研究目标需要定量和定性研究策略。对家庭进行了调查，以收集受访者的信息。采用山根公式来选择受访者的样本量。使用结构化问卷收集数据，并应用SUS-TAS作为分析当地社区对可持续旅游发展态度的基础。通过主成分分析和方差最大化旋转来确定SUS-TAS的维度。社区成员对七个可持续旅游发展构想中的六个表示认同。本研究验证了可持续旅游态度量表是监测可持续旅游发展的首要工具之一。
