Perceived Impacts of Tourism on Quality of Life of the Residents in Bulon Island,Satun Province

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the tourism impact perception of the residents in Bulon Islands, Satun Province including economic, environmental, social, and cultural and to identify these tourism impact affected the quality of life of the residents in Bulon Islands. Measured by the residents well-being including material well-being, health and safety well-being, community well-being, and emotional well-being. The ‹data were collected from 143 representatives from 143 households. The instrument applied a five-level Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 2 = disagree, 3 = slightly, 4 = agree, and 5 = strongly agree). The data were • analyzed by using SPSS by measure of frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. This study applied stepwise multiple regression to identify predictive power of the predictors affected the quality of life of the residents in Bulon Islands. The result found that the residents in Bulon Islands perceived tourism impact in high level and the highest perception is social impact (mean=4.23) and economic impact (mean=4.17). According to stepwise multiple regression analysis found that the variable which had predictive power to quality of life of the residents in Bulon Islands are cultural impact, economic impact and environmental impact perception with predictive power 73.7% and standard error of estimate at 0.219.