Host Perceptions of Tourism Development: The Case of Petra

Mithat Zeki Dinçer; Füsun İstanbullu Dinçer; Zaid Alrawadieh

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-5195/6139

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Mithat Zeki Dinçer Istanbul University

Full Professor and Director of the Vocational School of Social Sciences at Istanbul University. He holds a PhD degree on tourism from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. His current research interests include tourism economics, tourism development and economic policy. He is also member of editorial board for several tourism studies-related journals.
Füsun İstanbullu Dinçer Istanbul University

Full Professor and the Head of the Department of Tourism Management at Istanbul University. She gained her PhD degree on tourism from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University. Her main research interests include tourism policy and planning, history of tourism, and recreation and tourism management. She is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tourismology.
Zaid Alrawadieh Istanbul University
PhD candidate in Tourism Management at Istanbul University. He received his Master degree in Tourism and Environment from the University of Pisa, Italy. His research interests include tourist-host interaction, tourism development and customer complaining behavior in tourism and hospitality.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-5195/6139

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Host Perceptions, Impacts of Tourism, Tourism Development, Petra, Jordan

Abstract

The nature of tourism sector requires “consumer” to move to where the service is provided. Consumer’s movement to a different place leads to a direct encounter not only with service providers but also with those who live where the service is provided. This encounter results in a set of changes in the host community’s life. By using a self-completion questionnaire, this paper examined the residents’ perceptions of tourism development in Jordan’s main tourist destination, Petra. The findings suggested that the host community in Petra had positive attitudes toward tourism development in their city. The results showed that social and cultural impacts of tourism were most favored by surveyed sample. Host community is also assumed to favor tourism development for its role in bringing about better local services. The results are discussed thoroughly and directions for future research are suggested.

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