Uysal, Muzaffer
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Publication Is this about Feeling? The Interplay of Emotional Wellbeing, Solidarity and Residents’ Attitude.(2020) Wang, Sujie; Berbekova, Adiyukh; Uysal, MuzafferResearch has neglected to explore the role that residents’ feelings toward tourists play in influencing residents’ emotional wellbeing and residents’ attitude about tourism. This study proposes a theoretical model integrating emotional solidarity, emotional wellbeing and residents’ attitude. In order to test the proposed model, a survey of residents in China was undertaken. Structural equation modeling and mediation analysis were applied to assess the relationships involving residents’ emotional solidarity with tourists, emotional wellbeing, and residents’ attitude. The three dimensions of emotional solidarity were considered in the study: 1) welcoming nature, 2) sympathetic understanding, and 3) emotional closeness. Results indicate that welcoming nature, sympathetic understanding and emotional closeness directly influence residents’ attitude and residents’ emotional wellbeing. In addition, the relationships involving residents’ welcoming nature, sympathetic understanding and emotional closeness with tourists and residents’ attitude were all mediated by emotional wellbeing. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research opportunities are provided.Publication Support for Tourism: Pursuing a Better Life and Social Justice(2021) Berbekova, Adiyukh; Wang, Sujie; Uysal, MuzafferResidents’ support for tourism is a critical factor in the process of tourism development in the destination. Despite the growing importance of residents’ perceived justice in both practice and academic research, little attention has been paid to its application in the destination context. This study investigated how residents’ perceived justice interacts with their quality of life and support for tourism, drawing on the justice theory and Weber’s theory of formal and substantive rationality. Results from 412 surveyed residents from two rural destinations in China suggest that distributive, procedural, and interactional justice have a significant positive impact on both residents’ quality of life and their support for tourism. In addition, quality of life played a crucial indirect role between residents’ perceived justice and their support for tourism. Furthermore, the moderation effect of personal economic benefits on the relationship between perceived justice dimensions and support for tourism was confirmed.Publication Measuring International Tourism Demand to the United States: System Theory Perspective(2022) Berbekova, Adiyukh; Uysal, Muzaffer; Assaf, Albert G.Identifying relevant factors that affect tourism demand is of utmost importance for destinations in planning future tourism development. Drawing on the system theory of quality of life and consumer demand theory, this study offers a novel conceptualization of tourism demand, that moves beyond a mere economic perspective. The Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network model is employed to examine the impact of diverse quality of life dimensions of both source and destination countries in predicting tourist arrivals to the United States. The findings suggest that along with traditional demand determinants (e.g. per capita income, relative exchange rate), objective quality of life indicators are significant predictors of tourism demand. The study concludes with theoretical and practical implications.