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Residents’ attitudes, intentions and actual engagement in conservation of the built heritage: Examining the moderating effect of level of tourism development in Tanzania

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dc.creator Lwoga, Noel B.
dc.date 2017-03-13T18:36:24Z
dc.date 2017-03-13T18:36:24Z
dc.date 2016
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:42:20Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:42:20Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4501
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4501
dc.description This study investigated factors influencing local residents’ engagement in the conservation of the built heritage. It proposed a theoretical extension of the theory of planned behaviour by adding to the socio-psychological theory the tourism situational factor of “level of tourism development at the destination”. A questionnaire survey was conducted with local households in Zanzibar Stone Town (N = 151) and Pangani Town (N = 88) in Tanzania. The former town is more developed in terms of tourism than the latter. The results of the structural equation modelling demonstrate that attitudes to conservation relate positively to intention to conserve, which, in turn, relates positively to (actual) engagement in conservation. The results also show that the mentioned relationships are stronger among local residents in Zanzibar Stone Town than those in Pangani Town. The survey data were triangulated by in-depth interviews with 12 local residents, which showed the importance of socio-cultural contexts in explaining the effect of tourism development. The study supports the extension of socio-psychological models with the inclusion of tourism development as an important contextual factor in the built heritage setting. The study discusses theoretical and managerial implications.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Journal of Tourism (Revista de Turism)
dc.relation Issue 22: 46 - 57;
dc.subject Tanzania’s heritage, tourism, conservation, Zanzibar, Pangani.
dc.title Residents’ attitudes, intentions and actual engagement in conservation of the built heritage: Examining the moderating effect of level of tourism development in Tanzania
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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