Residents’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Tourism Impacts and Their Policy Implications

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a quantitative survey among residing families of a small mountain community on their attitudes and perceptions towards tourism impacts and policies. In total 295 questionnaires accounting for approximately 20% of the population were collected. A factor analysis was performed on residents’ agreement with different policies to obtain four different components. These components were used as dependent variables for a regression analysis showing that residents’ perceptions of economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts of tourism affect their attitudes towards different tourism policies.