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dc.contributor.authorYe, Xinliang
dc.contributor.authorScott, Noel
dc.contributor.authorDing, Peiyi
dc.contributor.authorHuang, Yanling
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-11T12:30:44Z
dc.date.available2017-09-11T12:30:44Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-06-25T00:14:42Z
dc.identifier.issn09669582
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09669582.2012.673620
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/51842
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines residents' attitudes to a major non-sport-related mega event, the 2010 Shanghai Expo. Resident attitudes research can ascertain how best to accommodate host community views, a key issue in developing sustainable tourism strategies. The paper breaks new ground by examining attitudes both before and during the event, revealing considerable fluidity in attitudes, and it examines residents' attitudes in China, reflecting the importance of non-western cultural and political systems on attitude development. The paper contributes to longitudinal research, an area where little research is available. Two studies were conducted before and during the 2010 Shanghai World Expo using the same survey instrument. It is based on a representative sample of residents of Shanghai who were asked about their attitudes to Expo 2010. Results indicate that residents on the whole strongly supported (77.9%) or supported (12.7%) the event with all the average scores of the attitude items higher than 5 (on a 1-7 scale). Some negative impacts were identified such as increased prices, traffic problems, crowding and congestion. Residents were classified into three groups in the pre-event survey (whole embracer, ambivalent embracer and neutralist), according to their level of support, and two groups for the survey during the event.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1087
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1105
dc.relation.ispartofissue8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Sustainable Tourism
dc.relation.ispartofvolume20
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness and Management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman Geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1503
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1604
dc.titleResidents' attitudes towards the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai prior to and during to the event
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2012
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorScott, Noel
gro.griffith.authorDing, Peiyi


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