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Tourist season and residents' life satisfaction: Empirical evidence from a longitudinal design in a Mediterranean destination
Author(s) -
Bimonte Salvatore,
D'Agostino Antonella,
Grilli Gaetano,
Pagliuca Margherita
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.2263
Subject(s) - tourism , happiness , life satisfaction , longitudinal study , mediterranean climate , geography , marketing , psychology , business , social psychology , medicine , archaeology , pathology
The aim of this paper is to confirm or confute the hypothesis that residents' attitudes to tourism and individuals' overall satisfaction vary with tourist development and to determine whether changes are long lasting or vanish with the tourist season. A longitudinal design based on a three‐step survey (before, peak, and after tourist seasons) was conducted for a destination where tourism is a major economic activity. The results demonstrate that residents' attitudes to tourism change over time and residents' happiness and satisfaction with life domains are endangered by tourism. They also show a certain recovery capacity after the “perturbation.”