Date of Award
5-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Legacy Department
Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
Committee Member
Dr. William C. Norman, Committee Chair
Committee Member
Dr. H. Charles Chancellor
Committee Member
Dr. Lauren N. Duffy
Abstract
Tourism development has been conceived as an action to bring economic benefits to the community. However, tourism development may have contributed to environmental degradation and negative sociocultural impact as well. The success of tourism development is premised on the idea of maintaining a good relationship between residents, tourists, private business owners and the government. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between tourism impacts, tourism development and the way residents’ demographic variables moderate the relationship between perceptions of tourism impacts and tourism development, as well as economic dependency for its correlation effect on the relationship. This study also compared the potential differences between downtown Greenville, South Carolina residents and individuals residing in the Greenville County. The importance of it is that downtown Greenville is a major draw whereby downtown residents are in close proximity the breadth of tourism impacts than others residing in the broader county.
Recommended Citation
An, Yuting, "Resident's Perception of Tourism Development in Greenville, SC, USA" (2016). All Theses. 2418.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/2418