Children’s perception towards well-being and support for tourism: a case study of children in an island tourism destination
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This study is conducted with an intention to explore the less researched area of tourism impacts on children of tourism island destinations and to examine differences in children’s views of material and community well-being, life satisfaction impacted by island tourism and support for the growth of island tourism, depending on their parents’ occupations links to tourism. The study employed quantitative research method. The samples of 450 school aged children from four major secondary schools in Phuket Island were selected in the study, using the stratified random sampling and the convenience sampling techniques. The research tool was a self-administered questionnaire and the data was analyzed using the statistical analysis program. Findings did not reveal significant difference in children’s views, and found weak association of their views with their parents’ tourism occupations. The children of parents with tourism-related occupations showed low satisfaction with their parents’ works and possibly perceived tourism career as a cause of their parents’ lack of time to take care of them. The factors that showed a significant relationship with parents’ occupations included children’s frequent purchase of new clothes, villages’ cleanliness, villagers’ welcoming of tourists, life safety and happiness with living on the island, and children’s preference towards increase in number of tourists.
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