RESIDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS TOURISM AND RECREATION

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RESIDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS TOURISM AND RECREATION

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

The attitude of a community can affect tourism development negatively or positively based on the benets and losses they will derive from it. Allen et al. (1993) submitted that local community will have a more favourable attitude towards tourism development provided they perceive a positive outcome from their relationship with tourists and tourism activity. Getz (1994) argue that individuals who stand to gain personally from tourism also perceive greater economic benets and fewer negative social and environmental impacts arising from tourism development than those who do not. It is essential that community residents have a positive attitude towards tourism development to attract infrastructure, create employment opportunities, build entrepreneurial mindset and conservation of cultural heritage (Sandra, Julia and Fernando, 2014). On the other hand, community residents that display negative attitude towards tourism development transmit their feelings to tourists, who, in turn, are likely to be reluctant to visit destinations where they feel unwelcome (Ramseook-Munhurrun and Naidoo, 2011; Ching-Fu and Pei-Chun, 2010).

However, studies on community attitude towards tourism development have been carried out around the globe with ndings. For instance, Maumbe (2012) and Siti and Mohd (2014) indicated that the local community that embraced tourism programmes and tourists visitation obtained both personal and community wide benets and this enhanced the socio-cultural and economic benets of tourism in their localities. The above studies focused mainly on the attitudes of community towards tourism development without giving credence to the empirical substantiation of the relationship between community attitude and tourism development in the oil rich Bonny Local Government Area. The point of departure in this study is to examine if there is any relationship between residents attitudes and community development in Bonny Local Government of Rivers State. This research is given credence when Yoon et al 2001 stated that an understanding of this relationship is essential in achieving a host community’s support fortourism development.

Review of Related Literature Community attitude towards Tourism Development

Local communities play a vital role in tourism development as they are important to providing good situation especially for tourist in order to boost up the number of tourist’s arrival as well as improve their quality of life (Andereck and Nyaupane, 2011). Generally, the term ‘community’ can be described as spatial boundaries and area also refers to group with a common interest (Godfery, 1996). As stated by Brehm, Eusaneheaur and Krannich (2004), community can be declared as a group of individuals living or working within the same geographic of residence. It is crucial to understand how community development is linked with the ability of a community to improve tourism development.

Local community plays their roles in inuencing the tourism development activities through organizing themselves at all levels to act more effective in development and good in sense of contact with government (Siti and Mohd (2014), Brehm et al 2004).. The importance of gaining local community support for the tourism development has been discussed by tourism scholars as vital components in achieving successful tourism industry (Chaskin, 2001,Kepe (2004), Aref, Gill, & Aref, 2010). Support for future tourism development is a key factor in developing and implementing successful initiatives Chen (2001.

The dimensions of residents attitude used in this study are embracement, tolerance and adjustment. Embracement describes how a community accepts tourism in their domain including the cost and benets. Attitude of community towards tourism activities goes a long way to determine how business will thrive in such environment. When a community doesn’t welcome tourism activities with a positive attitude, there is the tendency that any tourism infrastructure will be deserted. The acceptance of tourism activities by communities makes the tourist feel comfortable whenever there is visitation (Husbands, 1989 and Mason and Cheyne, 2000). This implies that the residents must be tolerant to the positive outcome of tourist. Tolerance here refers to the forbearance of tourism activities. One thing community does when it comes to tourism development is how to tolerate visitors coming to the tourist sites. In the light of this, community’s ability to forebear matters a lot in towards tourism activities. There must be awareness of the need to forebear tourism consequences from those that understand what tourism is all about. But it will be very difcult in a place where no one want to listen on what tourism can bring to the community.

Adjustment in this study is an attitude of community on how it can accommodate tourism activities. It is one thing to accept tourism activities, it is another thing to tolerate and it is another thing to accommodate it or live with it. This attitude ascertains the continued existence of tourism infrastructure in a community. Community adjustment in this scenario generally revolves around seminars and sensitization of the people to take tourism as their own and live with it. Some communities may nd it very difcult to live with tourism activities especially when they are not sure of visitors. There will always be fear of the unknown among the community dwellers (Dogen, 1989)

Statement of the problem

There may have been previous researches in this subject. This work gives further explanations and analysis in residents’ attitude towards tourism and recreation

Objectives of the study
To understand the impact of residents’ attitude on tourism and recreation.
To understand the relationship between the attitude of residents and the development of tourism and recreation

Research questions
What is the impact of residents’ attitude on tourism and recreation.
What is the relationship between the attitude of residents and the development of tourism and recreation