Examining The Effects Of Environmental Components On Tourism Destination Competitiveness: The Moderating Impact Of Community Support

Chin, Chee Hua and Lo, May Chiun and Nair, Vikneswaran and Songan, Peter (2016) Examining The Effects Of Environmental Components On Tourism Destination Competitiveness: The Moderating Impact Of Community Support. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 21 (1). pp. 1-30. ISSN 1394-2603

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Abstract

Contemporarily, tourism sector is a highly competitive environment, which forces tourism players to provide better visitor services in order to stay competitive. In rural tourism, a growing niche in the tourism market, multiple components of environmental constructs play a crucial role in contributing to the sustainability and competitiveness of rural tourism destinations. Hence, this study examines the impact of environment components on development of rural tourism destination competitiveness from a local community perspective. In addition, community support was adopted as moderator variable to examine the relationship among the constructs. 299 respondents comprising of residents of rural tourism in Sarawak, Malaysia took part voluntarily in this study. Data analysis was performed using SPSS Version 21.0 and Smart PLS 2.0 (M3) to assess the developed model, based on path modelling and then bootstrapping. Interestingly, the fndings revealed that four of the environmental constructs have had a signifcant positive impact on destination competitiveness from local communities' perspective.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management
Divisions: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press) > Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAM)
Depositing User: Mr Firdaus Mohamad
Date Deposited: 20 Sep 2017 08:00
Last Modified: 20 Sep 2017 08:00
URI: http://eprints.usm.my/id/eprint/36691

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