As rural tourism evolves into diversification, the connection between the individual and local resource management is becoming an important issue for the sustainable evolution of rural tourism. To explore this point, we investigated conceptually and empirically whether rural tourism operators’...

As rural tourism evolves into diversification, the connection between the individual and local resource management is becoming an important issue for the sustainable evolution of rural tourism. To explore this point, we investigated conceptually and empirically whether rural tourism...

Although continued attention has been given to the general study of "community," we still lack a consensus. operational definition . Such an absence impedes development in this area of stud y. Because authors have used different areal conceptualizations, knowledge is, at best, case specific....