The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah

This study aimed to investigate mediating effect of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. The sample used in this study is made up of 235 residents located at Ranau, Sabah that took part in answering...

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Main Author: Chua, Geok Ling
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10727/1/The%20mediating%20role%20of%20perceived.pdf
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description This study aimed to investigate mediating effect of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. The sample used in this study is made up of 235 residents located at Ranau, Sabah that took part in answering the questionnaires. The variables involved in this study are support for tourism development as the dependent variable, residents' place image as the independent variable, while perceived tourism impacts (economic, environmental, and socio-cultural) as the mediators. Partial Least Squares (PLS) is used as a tool to process data analysis in this study. The result of this study revealed that there is mediating effect of perceived tourism impacts (economic, socio-cultural) on residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. In contrast, variable namely perceived environmental impacts found non-significant relationship in all proposed hypotheses.
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spelling oai:eprints.ums.edu.my:107272017-10-27T07:42:26Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10727/ The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah Chua, Geok Ling HF Commerce This study aimed to investigate mediating effect of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. The sample used in this study is made up of 235 residents located at Ranau, Sabah that took part in answering the questionnaires. The variables involved in this study are support for tourism development as the dependent variable, residents' place image as the independent variable, while perceived tourism impacts (economic, environmental, and socio-cultural) as the mediators. Partial Least Squares (PLS) is used as a tool to process data analysis in this study. The result of this study revealed that there is mediating effect of perceived tourism impacts (economic, socio-cultural) on residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. In contrast, variable namely perceived environmental impacts found non-significant relationship in all proposed hypotheses. 2016 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/10727/1/The%20mediating%20role%20of%20perceived.pdf Chua, Geok Ling (2016) The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title_full The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title_fullStr The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title_full_unstemmed The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title_short The mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents' place image and support for tourism development in Ranau, Sabah
title_sort mediating role of perceived tourism impacts on the relationship between residents place image and support for tourism development in ranau sabah
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