DEVELOPMENT OF A RESIDENT ATTITUDE SCALE TOWARD TOURISM IN LANGKAWI: COMPARING EASTERN AND WESTERN CONTEXTS

Resident Attitudes Towards Impacts from Tourism Development in Langkawi Islands, Malaysia

Tourism in general has become one of the major cultural and economic forces in the world today and is regarded as an important means to benefit local communities. Langkawi for example, has experienced tremendous development since declared a duty free island in 1987. Many construction projects are carried out on the islands with only one purpose: to accommodate tourism development. Rapid investm...

Development and Validation of Attitude toward Gestational Surrogacy Scale in Iranian Infertile Couples

Objective Surrogacy is one of the most challenging infertility treatments engaging ethical, psychological and social issues. Attitudes survey plays an important role to disclosure variant aspects of surrogacy, to help meeting legislative gaps and ambiguities, and to convert controversial dimensions surrounding surrogacy to a normative concept that eliminates stigma. The aim of this study is to ...

Development of the Western Model: Toward a Reconciliation of Eastern and Western Perspectives

Although communication as a formal discipline is one of the youngest of the sciences, it has roots which extend back through the arts and philosophy at least as far back as the Greeks. Even today, Aristotle's rhetoric plays an important part in the training of many communication scholars. As a young and eclectic discipline, communication has drawn substance from many related fields and has dive...

Development of A Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Oocyte Donation

Background To our knowledge, there is no valid and comprehensive questionnaire that considers attitude toward oocyte donation (OD). Therefore this study has aimed to design and develop a tool entitled attitude toward donation-oocyte (ATOD-O) to measure attitude toward OD. MaterialsAndMethods This methodological, qualitative research was undertaken on 15 infertile cases. In addition, we performe...

The Attitude of Tehranian Customers toward Tourism Electronic Services