Do Inhabitants’ Perceptions Support Tourism Sustainability? The Case of Khorramabad in Iran

The present study attempted to examine the impact of inhabitants’ perceptions and local community participation on supporting sustainable tourism development. goal current was determine how involvement views affected development a industry. Inhabitants’ positive/negative had direct but differential effects Findings revealed that positive residents their support for at twice rate than negative did, which indicated higher readiness participating in process. Moreover, findings showed using 16 latent variables form structural model path analysis method good enough terms covering research questions analyzing dataset.