Tofik Etago

Addis Ababa Residents' Perception on Tourism Impacts: Residents' Perception of Tourism Impacts Tofik Etago

The perception of the host communities towards the impacts of tourism is vital for sustainable tourism development. However, there is a limited understanding on the relationship between perception of tourism impact with sustainable tourism development in Ethiopia. Furthermore, there is a limited understanding on how and why residents' respond to tourism,and This inspire the author to write a this book. The book is an attempt to assess the perception of the Addis Ababa residents' towards tourism impact and its implication to sustainable tourism development. The methodological approach of the study was a case study of Addis Ababa city with a quantitative and qualitative descrptive survey domains. The book was relied on primary and secondary data. Results of the study indicated that tourism development in Ethiopia is significantly affected by residents' perception. There is perception difference among the respondents. Moreover negative impacts were less known by the residents,in addition perception difference is observed among socio-demographic factors. Recommendation were forwarded in order to shape and improve the perception of the residents