Linking Culture and the Environment
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K.L. Andereck <strong>and</strong> N.G. McGehee 253<br />
Table 14.7. Model direct <strong>and</strong> indirect relationships for support for tourism based on <strong>the</strong><br />
Arizona study.<br />
Dependent<br />
variables<br />
Independent variables<br />
Direct effect<br />
(beta) Indirect effects Total effects<br />
Support for<br />
tourism<br />
Gender – −0.03 −0.03<br />
Age – 0.01 0.01<br />
Education – 0.03 0.03<br />
Visits to tourism area 0.12* 0.24 0.36<br />
Distance of residence 0.08* −0.01 0.07<br />
Live in area as child – −0.01 −0.01<br />
Tourism development – −0.09 −0.09<br />
Involvement – −0.03 −0.03<br />
Personal benefit 0.15* 0.31 0.46<br />
Community enhancement 0.38* – 0.38<br />
Community degeneration −0.13* – −0.13<br />
Economic improvement 0.31* – 0.31<br />
*p < 0.001.<br />
involvement variable as well as indirect effects of visit frequency, age <strong>and</strong><br />
distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area via personal benefit.<br />
Among <strong>the</strong> Arizona respondents, community degeneration is also predicted<br />
by age, benefit from tourism <strong>and</strong> level of community development but<br />
in <strong>the</strong> opposite direction from community enhancement. Having lived in <strong>the</strong><br />
area as a child also emerges in this model with those who did not live in <strong>the</strong> area<br />
during childhood being more likely to agree that tourism results in <strong>the</strong>se kinds<br />
of negative impacts. There are also indirect effects by visit frequency, age <strong>and</strong><br />
distance of residence via personal benefit.<br />
The positive attitude variable of economic improvement is explained by<br />
a number of variables in <strong>the</strong> Arizona study: education <strong>and</strong> age, with those<br />
having more education <strong>and</strong> being older feeling tourism results in economic<br />
improvement; frequency of visits to <strong>the</strong> tourism area, with those who visit<br />
more often being more likely to perceive economic improvements; distance<br />
of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area, with those living closer perceiving more<br />
economic improvement; <strong>and</strong> personal benefit from tourism, with those who<br />
perceive more benefit also feeling tourism results in economic improvement<br />
in <strong>the</strong> community. There are positive indirect effects by visitation frequency,<br />
distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism area <strong>and</strong> negative indirect effects by<br />
age via personal benefit from tourism.<br />
Analysis of <strong>the</strong> last attitude construct of lifestyle costs in <strong>the</strong> Arizona<br />
study finds positive relationships with distance of residence from <strong>the</strong> tourism<br />
area of <strong>the</strong> community <strong>and</strong> level of tourism development. In o<strong>the</strong>r words,<br />
those who live far<strong>the</strong>r from <strong>the</strong> tourism area <strong>and</strong> those in communities with<br />
higher levels of tourism development in Arizona also tend to feel tourism<br />
has lifestyle costs. It is negatively related to age, whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> resident lived in