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Global Interdisciplinary, Business-Economics Advancement Conference., Florida, United States Of America, 15 - 18 May 2014, pp.727-734, (Full Text)
The present study has been conducted to analyze the attitude of local people in Turkey's province of Antalya county of Kaş related to the support for the development of tourism; this county's tourism was defined to be in a decline according to the Butler's (1980) life cycle model. The attitude of local people in Kaş County related to tourism development has been analyzed with the help of observed variables (perceived positive effects of tourism and perceived negative effects of tourism, personal benefits from tourism development, satisfaction of local people related to tourism development). For this purpose, Ko and Stewart (2002) model has been used with frequent references in literature. Questionnaire has been used as a data gathering tool in the study. Questionnaires have been applied on 270 volunteers selected by convenience sampling. Structural equation model has been used in order to test hypotheses formed in line with the purpose of the study. The results of the study showed that the observed variables in the model are effective in explaining local people's attitude related to the development of tourism. The findings have been evaluated in the context of study.