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In the context of resident and tourist relationships in a destination, perspectives of the former are rarely considered. This is likely a function of the continued attention paid to studies focusing on the former in addressing sociocultural impacts of tourism. This work examines the relationship as perceived by tourists, utilizing the theoretical framework of emotional solidarity. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the factor structure of the four constructs (i.e., shared beliefs, shared behavior, interaction, and emotional solidarity) within Durkheim’s model. This works shows continued support for the framework with each of the antecedent constructs significantly predicting emotional solidarity, explaining approximately 55% of the variance in the construct. Implications and limitations of the work along with future research opportunities are discussed.As with any study, limitations exist. This study is no different. While numerous forms of validity were demonstrated in this work, criterion (or predictive) validity was not assessed. Given no ultimate outcome variables of emotional solidarity have been assessed (including that of sociodemographic or socioeconomic variables) in prior work that would provide a priori relationships between emotional solidarity and such outcomes, criterion validity would be extremely difficult to demonstrate. However, indicating criterion validity would strengthen the psychometric properties of all constructs in the model. Future research needs to occur that extends Durkheim’s ([1915] 1995) model to address how emotional solidarity impacts numerous other constructs. Examining outcome variables such as residents’ quality of life and community attachment as well as tourists’ likelihood of returning to the destination or the economic impact on the community can begin to answer the “so what” questions, providing greater practical implications for managers.It goes without saying that while this study makes advancements in the line of research concerning emotional solidarity by ascertaining how tourists conceive of the construct, the story of such closeness is only captured from one perspective. In this regard, the work shares the same limitations as the work of Woosnam and Norman (2010) and Woosnam (2011). Ideally, concurrent models need to be run for both residents and tourists in examining the framework of emotional solidarity. With such a study, we will be able to determine not only where gaps exist in the degree of emotional solidarity (as measured through levels of emotional closeness, sympathetic understanding, and welcoming nature) shared between groups but also which model fits the data better.Within this study, visitors were not asked whether they perceived themselves to be of a different cultural background than residents of Galveston County. Furthermore, visitors were not asked if residents they encountered were of a similar race. Such information would be helpful in determining whether the degree of emotional solidarity visitors experienced with residents was potentially attributed to being of a similar cultural or racial background. According to Woosnam (2010), nearly 9 out of 10 visitors to Galveston County were from Texas, which may point to visitors and residents being from similar cultures or of the same race. Intuitively, one could argue that a degree of closeness may be more difficult to experience with someone from a culture different from their own, given the potential for dissimilar beliefs, customs, etc. (Bogardus 1933). For this reason, future research needs to be done that examines residents’ and tourists’ (from divergent cultures or of dissimilar races) degree of emotional solidarity with one another.Hypothesis 1: Tourists’ perceived level of shared beliefs with residents will significantly predict the level of emotional solidarity they feel with such residents.Hypothesis 2: Tourists’ perceived level of shared behavior with residents will significantly predict the level of emotional solidarity they feel with residents.Hypothesis 3: Tourists’ perceived level of interaction with tourists will significantly predict the level of emotional solidarity they feel with residents
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