Tourism-Driven Mobilities

A novel scale to measure tourism-driven mobilities (TDM) from the perspective of local residents has been developed and validated, addressing a significant gap in empirical research. The study, conducted at UNESCO World Heritage Sites Dambulla and Sigiriya, identified governance and capital as key stimuli for TDM through confirmatory factor analysis, which explained 84% of the variance. This scale not only advances methodological directions in tourism mobility research but also provides a framework to quantify TDM, though further validation is needed to establish its generalizability.

Ranasinghe, R., & Cheng, L. (2020). Tourism-Driven Mobilities. International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, 11(3), 119–134. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijabim.2020070108