Residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development: a perspective article

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to briefly highlight the evolution and overview of theories and methods applied to studies on residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development and proposes several new areas of inquiry for future scholarly research. Design/methodology/approach This is a paper that highlights the past perspectives and future developments of residents’ impact perceptions of and attitudes towards tourism development. Findings This paper highlighted the theoretical and methodological perspectives of published articles in a few past decades on residents’ perceptions and attitudes. Moreover, this research showed that the future research on residents’ perceptions and attitudes should address emerging issues, such as over-tourism, as well as the technology-related factors. New theoretical and methodological perspectives are also proposed to investigate residents’ attitudes towards tourism development and its impacts. Originality/value This paper proposes several new areas of inquiry in relation to residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards tourism development for future research.