Residents' involvement in tourism and their perceptions of tourism impacts.

The article focuses on a research paper which provides insight into the differences in residents' attitude to tourism by considering those who receive social and economic benefits from tourism and those who perceive that they do not and those who want to move away from the Sunshine Coast, South East Queensland and those who do not. The paper gathered information from Sunshine Coast residents by using a survey approach. The findings of the paper indicate notable differences in residents' attitude according to the type of benefit they receive from tourism. The paper also identifies several notable differences which would assist the tourism planners in developing a policy for sustaining tourism development.s