Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak

Tourism has been recognized as an effective catalyst of socio-economic regeneration in rural areas. However, tourism has led to several negative impacts to rural tourism destinations in Sarawak. Therefore, sustainable rural tourism development is an important key concept to Sarawak tourism industr...

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Main Author:	Fong, Sook Fun
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
Online Access:	http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20984/1/Fong%20Sook.pdf
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spelling	my-unimas-ir.209842023-03-23T04:16:01Z Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak 2016 Fong, Sook Fun H Social Sciences (General) HT Communities. Classes. Races Tourism has been recognized as an effective catalyst of socio-economic regeneration in rural areas. However, tourism has led to several negative impacts to rural tourism destinations in Sarawak. Therefore, sustainable rural tourism development is an important key concept to Sarawak tourism industry. This study investigate the relationships between local communities’ participation in decision making, knowledge sharing, empowerment, community knowledge of tourism, relationship trust, relationship commitment, relationship satisfaction, self-efficacy, and social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability in rural areas of Sarawak. A quantitative survey and participatory approach was conducted to obtain the data from the local communities. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 and SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) were used to analyse the data collected from 458 respondents. Thirty-two hypothesized relationships were tested and thirteen of the hypotheses were supported. Thus, this study may be informative for future researchers and tourism stakeholders to have an in-depth understanding of the impact of local communities’ involvement, relationship quality, and self-efficacy on sustainable rural tourism development in Sarawak, Malaysia. unimas 2016 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20984/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20984/1/Fong%20Sook.pdf text en validuser phd doctoral UNIMAS
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description	Tourism has been recognized as an effective catalyst of socio-economic regeneration in rural areas. However, tourism has led to several negative impacts to rural tourism destinations in Sarawak. Therefore, sustainable rural tourism development is an important key concept to Sarawak tourism industry. This study investigate the relationships between local communities’ participation in decision making, knowledge sharing, empowerment, community knowledge of tourism, relationship trust, relationship commitment, relationship satisfaction, self-efficacy, and social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability in rural areas of Sarawak. A quantitative survey and participatory approach was conducted to obtain the data from the local communities. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 and SmartPLS 2.0 (M3) were used to analyse the data collected from 458 respondents. Thirty-two hypothesized relationships were tested and thirteen of the hypotheses were supported. Thus, this study may be informative for future researchers and tourism stakeholders to have an in-depth understanding of the impact of local communities’ involvement, relationship quality, and self-efficacy on sustainable rural tourism development in Sarawak, Malaysia.
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qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author	Fong, Sook Fun
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title	Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak
title_short	Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak
title_full	Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak
title_fullStr	Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak
title_full_unstemmed	Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak
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Local Communities' Involvement, Relationship Quality, Self-Efficacy, and Sustainable Rural Tourism Development in Sarawak

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