Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 11, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su11226248
Keywords
sustainable tourism development; community empowerment; community support; community-based tourism; Pakistan
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Though community empowerment and sustainable tourism development (STD) have been discussed in the existing literature, little research has focused on the elaborate mechanisms between these two variables. Therefore, the present study examines the relationship between community empowerment and STD, along with the mediating role played by community support for tourism. Using social exchange theory, this research establishes theoretical relationships between vital variables for STD. A survey of empirical study was undertaken, and data were collected from 353 local residents in the northern area of Pakistan. The results for data analyses demonstrated a significant relationship between community empowerment and STD initiatives, and community support for tourism was shown to partially mediate the relationship between the two variables. The findings imply that high community empowerment enables the community to establish successful sustainable tourism development through local people's support for tourism. This study contributes theoretically to identifying the idea that community members' support for tourism has a crucial function bridging the link from community empowerment to sustain tourism in a local area.
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