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Intention to engage in ecotourism development: validation and extension of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (Version 2.1)

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  • Danny Castillo-Vizuete
  • Alex Gavilanes-Montoya
  • Kyle Maurice Woosnam
  • Manuel Alector Ribeiro
  • Carlos Chávez-Velásquez
  • Fausto O. Sarmiento
  • Chadley R. Hollas

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This work, based on the conceptual work by Scheyvens and van der Watt (2021), amends the original Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS) by including three new dimensions: economic empowerment, cultural empowerment, and environmental empowerment. In so doing, the modified scale is applied in a region of Ecuador not known for its ecotourism opportunities, to determine how residents’ (n = 500) perceived empowerment factors into their intent to engage in ecotourism endeavours through a modified theory of planned behaviour model. Psychometric properties of the 13-item modified RETS were strong. Six of the nine proposed hypotheses were supported via structural equation modelling using IBM Amos 28.0. The first-order model (of perceived empowerment) accounted for 33% of the variance in attitudes about engaging in ecotourism and 82% of the variance in behavioural intentions to engage in ecotourism. A second-order model increased variance explained in attitudes to 70% and in behavioural intentions to 89%.

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  • Danny Castillo-Vizuete & Alex Gavilanes-Montoya & Kyle Maurice Woosnam & Manuel Alector Ribeiro & Carlos Chávez-Velásquez & Fausto O. Sarmiento & Chadley R. Hollas, 2025. "Intention to engage in ecotourism development: validation and extension of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (Version 2.1)," Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(10), pages 1531-1547, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:28:y:2025:i:10:p:1531-1547
    DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2024.2343777
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