Table 8. Estimated effects of household-level tourism participation on local residents' overall attitudes toward tourism development.
Mean scorea , b (SD) | Coefficientsc (SE) | |||
Household type | Tourism | Non-tourism | Weighted | Unweighted |
1. There are conflicts between tourism development and conservation in the reserve. | −0.54 (1.66) | −1.37 (1.17) | −0.6143 ** (0.2271) | −0.6382 ** (0.2654) |
2. Overall tourism development is good for the reserve. | 1.85 (0.49) | 1.95 (0.28) | −0.0819 (0.0508) | −0.0866 (0.0656) |
Five-point Likert scale: −2. Strongly disagree; −1. Disagree; 0. Neutral; 1. Agree; 2. Strongly agree.
The sample sizes for tourism and non-tourism households are 46 and 114 (Q1) and 55 and 134 (Q2), respectively.
The signs ** represents significance at the 1% level.