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Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts

The purpose of this paper is to review and compare the development of an attitudinal scale for measuring residents' attitudes toward tourism in the context of the Eastern and Western community. To date, two standardized scales which focused on the Western community were developed by Lankford an...

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Main Author: Mohd Shariff, Nurhazani
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Language:English
Published: Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia 2005
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spelling my.uum.repo.82672013-07-01T06:56:13Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/8267/ Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts Mohd Shariff, Nurhazani G Geography (General) The purpose of this paper is to review and compare the development of an attitudinal scale for measuring residents' attitudes toward tourism in the context of the Eastern and Western community. To date, two standardized scales which focused on the Western community were developed by Lankford and Howard (1994) and Ap and Crompton (1998). None, however has been developed in the context of the Eastern community. Since both the communities have different culture and beliefs toward certain aspects, the development of the scale is important in order to understand resident attitudes. Thus, a study was undertaken in Langkawi Island, Malaysia for the purpose of developing the scale and the results were compared with the existing scale.Several similarities and differences of items are found in the scale developed for both the Eastern and Western contexts. Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia 2005-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/8267/1/Nurha.pdf Mohd Shariff, Nurhazani (2005) Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts. ASEAN Journal on Hospitality and Tourism, 4 (2). pp. 103-113. ISSN 1412-2073 http://www.aseanjournal.com/
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Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
description The purpose of this paper is to review and compare the development of an attitudinal scale for measuring residents' attitudes toward tourism in the context of the Eastern and Western community. To date, two standardized scales which focused on the Western community were developed by Lankford and Howard (1994) and Ap and Crompton (1998). None, however has been developed in the context of the Eastern community. Since both the communities have different culture and beliefs toward certain aspects, the development of the scale is important in order to understand resident attitudes. Thus, a study was undertaken in Langkawi Island, Malaysia for the purpose of developing the scale and the results were compared with the existing scale.Several similarities and differences of items are found in the scale developed for both the Eastern and Western contexts.
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title Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
title_short Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
title_full Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
title_fullStr Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
title_full_unstemmed Development of a resident attitude scale toward tourism in Langkawi: Comparing Eastern and Western contexts
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