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ABSTRACT
From the perspective of local residents, who are the ultimate stakeholders and guardians of heritage preservation, this paper aims to explore the public perceptions and internal and external factors that can influence residents’ preferences for historic preservation criteria. The results of multiple regression analyses reveal that the three preservation criteria (physicality, human relationship, and actions and processes) are influenced by residents’ subjective perceptions and objective characteristics. Some management implications, including designing comprehensive interpretation systems to enhance cultural capital, are discussed.
Disclosure statement
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Notes on contributors
Shengnan (Nancy) Zhao is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University. Her research interests include cultural tourism, sustainable tourism, politics of tourism, and residents’ attitude toward tourism.
Gyan P. Nyaupane is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. He has research interests in understanding the relationship between tourists and both natural and cultural resources. He has done extensive research on topics related to heritage management, conservation, poverty alleviation, and tourism development.
Dallen J. Timothy is Professor of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University and Director of the Tourism Development and Management Program at the same institution, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability. He is also Visiting Research Professor at Beijing Union University. His research interests include heritage trails and routes, religious tourism, heritage cuisines, souvenir production and consumption, and the geopolitics of tourism.
ORCID
Shengnan (Nancy) Zhao http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6501-8653
Dallen J. Timothy http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1373-1251