Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore

This study seeks to explore Singaporeans attitudes towards the impact of tourism on their community and to identify factors which might influence these attitudes. Using different scales, two types of attitudes - cognitive and affective - were studied separately. The population was defined as any ind...

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Main Author: Zhang, Wei
Other Authors: Murthy, Bvsan
Format: Thesis
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20209
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description This study seeks to explore Singaporeans attitudes towards the impact of tourism on their community and to identify factors which might influence these attitudes. Using different scales, two types of attitudes - cognitive and affective - were studied separately. The population was defined as any individual who holds Singapore citizenship and is above 18 years old. The attitude variables were chosen by an elimination process which started with one hundred and thirty two variables identified through a literature review. Thirty five variables expressing cognitive attitude and fourteen variables expressing affective attitude were found to be representative in Singapore. Nine factors were extracted by applying factor analysis to the cognitive attitude scale. The association of the extracted factors with residents overall attitude towards tourism impact was tested by the stepwise multiple regression model. The data collected by the affective attitude scale underwent a descriptive analysis. Residents were grouped by four categorised factors. These groups were compared by ANOVA test.
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spelling ntu-10356/202092024-01-12T10:12:09Z Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore Zhang, Wei Murthy, Bvsan Nanyang Business School DRNTU::Business::Industries and labor This study seeks to explore Singaporeans attitudes towards the impact of tourism on their community and to identify factors which might influence these attitudes. Using different scales, two types of attitudes - cognitive and affective - were studied separately. The population was defined as any individual who holds Singapore citizenship and is above 18 years old. The attitude variables were chosen by an elimination process which started with one hundred and thirty two variables identified through a literature review. Thirty five variables expressing cognitive attitude and fourteen variables expressing affective attitude were found to be representative in Singapore. Nine factors were extracted by applying factor analysis to the cognitive attitude scale. The association of the extracted factors with residents overall attitude towards tourism impact was tested by the stepwise multiple regression model. The data collected by the affective attitude scale underwent a descriptive analysis. Residents were grouped by four categorised factors. These groups were compared by ANOVA test. Master of Business 2009-12-14T09:11:11Z 2009-12-14T09:11:11Z 1998 1998 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/20209 Nanyang Technological University 211 p. application/pdf
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Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore
title Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore
title_full Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore
title_fullStr Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore
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title_short Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore
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