ABSTRACT

To promote sustainable development of tourism, the role of the local community and their involvement are undeniable. This study aimed to discover different dimensions of the local community and assess their effects on perceived positive benefits and support for the sustainable development of tourism in Bangladesh by employing the Social Exchange Theory (SET). This study applied Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to a data set of 250 residents of two museums. In this study, three components of the local community specifically community awareness, community involvement, and community attachment were identified and validated while community awareness was newly derived. Findings revealed that all the dimensions had strong positive impacts on perceived positive benefits, and perceived positive benefits had strong positive influences on support for sustainable development.

摘要

要促进旅游业的可持续发展，当地社区的作用和参与是不可否认的。本研究旨在通过运用社会交换理论 (SET) 发现当地社区的不同维度，并评估它们对感知到的积极利益和对孟加拉国旅游业可持续发展的支持的影响。本研究将结构方程模型 (SEM) 应用于两个博物馆的 250 名居民的数据集。在这项研究中，确定并验证了当地社区的三个组成部分，特别是社区意识、社区参与和社区依恋，同时新推导了社区意识。调查结果显示，所有维度都对感知到的积极收益产生了强烈的积极影响，