Resident Perceptions of Sustainable Tourism in Chongdugou, China

摘要

This article examines resident perceptions of sustainable agritourism among four subvillages in Chongdugou, China. The prism of sustainability, with institutional, economic, ecological, and sociocultural dimensions, served as the theoretical lens. Wehypothesized both main effects (distance of subvillage from village entrance and employment in the tourism industry) and interaction effects for the four dimensions of sustainability and overall satisfaction with tourism. Resident surveys (n = 383) weredistributed among the four subvillages. The main effect for village location was statistically significant in all five two-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs), while the main effect for tourism employment was only significant for the economic model. The interaction term was significant for the sociocultural dimension, approached significance for the institutional and the economic, and was not statistically significant for the ecological dimension or tourism satisfaction. The theoretical and applied implications of these findings for understanding tourism sustainability are discussed.