Author Bios (50 Words for each Author)

Adiyukh Berbekova is a PhD candidate in Hospitality and Tourism Management - Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Her research interests include crisis management in destinations; quality of life and destination performance.

Sujie Wang is an associate Professor of Tourism Management, Shandong University (China). Her research interests focus on quality of life, social-cultural impacts of tourism and destination images.

Dr. Muzaffer Uysal is a professor and chair of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management - Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. His current research interests center on tourism demand/supply interaction, impact and tourism development and quality-of-life research in tourism and hospitality.

Abstract (150 Words)

Residents’ 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.

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Support for Tourism: Pursuing a Better Life and Social Justice

Residents’ 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.