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Community Attachment and Support for Sustainable Tourism Development through the Attitudes of the Local Population: A Case Study in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

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  • Morales Pablo Cañero

    (Ph.D Candidate University of Córdoba, Spain)

  • Agüera Francisco Orgaz

    (Ph.D. Vice-chancellor of Production and Scientific Research Technological University of Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic)

  • López-Guzmán Tomás

    (Ph.D. Departament of Applied Economics University of Córdoba, Spain)

  • Cuadra Salvador Moral

    (Ph.D. Technological University of Santiago, Santiago, Dominican Republic)

Abstract

The globalization that is currently suffering the world is applicable to tourism, where sustainable tourism practices are required and consistent with the environment in which they develop, so that tourism practices made aware of the local population are conformed as an important engine from the social and economic point of view where it is inserted. The objective of this research is to carry out an analysis between the possible relationships between the attachment of the residents to the community as well as the support of the local population to sustainable tourism and the environmental attitudes of the residents. For this purpose, a duly structured questionnaire was used to carry out a descriptive analysis through the statistical program IBM SPSS v.24.0 and an analysis through the technique of structural equations (Structural Equation Modeling) through the program SmartPLS v.3.2.6. (Partial Least Squares). The results obtained establish a positive influence of community attachment on support for sustainable tourism development.

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  • Morales Pablo Cañero & Agüera Francisco Orgaz & López-Guzmán Tomás & Cuadra Salvador Moral, 2018. "Community Attachment and Support for Sustainable Tourism Development through the Attitudes of the Local Population: A Case Study in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic," Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 173-184, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:mjsosc:v:9:y:2018:i:2:p:173-184:n:17
    DOI: 10.2478/mjss-2018-0037
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    1. Moayad Mohammad Alrwajfah & Fernando Almeida-García & Rafael Cortés-Macías, 2019. "Residents’ Perceptions and Satisfaction toward Tourism Development: A Case Study of Petra Region, Jordan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-19, March.

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