(revised title) Perceptions of rural tourism development and sense of pride as a form of community resilience

Author Bios (50 Words for each Author)

Joelle Soulard, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the roles of travel experiences in fostering transformation, inclusivity, well-being, social change, and activism from the perspectives of travelers and destination residents.

Jeongeun is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Recreation, Sport & Tourism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Jeongeun examines how participating in cultural practices contributes to ethnic minority communities and people. Her overarching research goal is to promote community-based tourism development for equity and benefit sharing environment among diverse stakeholders.

Suiwen (Sharon) Zou, Ph.D. (szou@illinois.edu), is an assistant professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on marketing practices (e.g., pricing) that address the financial issues of tourism and leisure services. (Dr. Zou’s research website here)

Caitlin Brooks’s research explores how people create meaning in their lives through participation in transformative tourism event spaces with a focus on how we can plan event experiences to help participants dismantle oppressive systems and make way for the co-creation of more just and equitable leisure experiences.

Abstract (150 Words)

Although past research focused on the role of pride in the relationship between destination residents and travelers (Boley & McGehee, 2014), there have been calls to conceptualize pride as a more encompassing socially constructed meaning (Sullivan, 2017) that impacts the relationships between destination residents, elected officials, and tourism entrepreneurs. We investigated this contingency through a creative multi-methods approach that combined picture collages with group discussions and personal interviews to investigate the meanings destination stakeholders assign to pride. We applied Hume's Theory of Pride to investigate how pride was expressed in the destination stakeholders' discourse about their community. Fifty-one stakeholders from rural tourism destinations shared their perspectives on pride relating to tourism development. These stakeholders reveal deep and powerful meanings associated with pride based on prestige, caring, and honor through their interpretations.

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(revised title) Perceptions of rural tourism development and sense of pride as a form of community resilience

Although past research focused on the role of pride in the relationship between destination residents and travelers (Boley & McGehee, 2014), there have been calls to conceptualize pride as a more encompassing socially constructed meaning (Sullivan, 2017) that impacts the relationships between destination residents, elected officials, and tourism entrepreneurs. We investigated this contingency through a creative multi-methods approach that combined picture collages with group discussions and personal interviews to investigate the meanings destination stakeholders assign to pride. We applied Hume's Theory of Pride to investigate how pride was expressed in the destination stakeholders' discourse about their community. Fifty-one stakeholders from rural tourism destinations shared their perspectives on pride relating to tourism development. These stakeholders reveal deep and powerful meanings associated with pride based on prestige, caring, and honor through their interpretations.