Abstract: Purpose of this study is to measure the impact of tourism economics towards psychometric aspects such as; well-being, personal benefits, and life satisfaction of the community in order to predict the public's intention to participate in the development of tourist destinations. Designed by quantitative research using a scale of measurement was previously existed. The results of this study indicate there is no significant effect between economic benefits on the satisfaction of community life. Economic benefits will have an impact on the life satisfaction on local people and then be able to move the public's intention to participate in the development of new tourist destinations, if the communities feel the prosperity as well as theythink themselves are coming in useful in the tourist destinations development program. The implications shows that the size of the economy is not enough to be used to predict the satisfaction of life and further the public's intentions in the tourist destinations development, but necessary aspects in psychometric categories such as; well-being, personal benefit, and life satisfaction. Originality of this study is to filling the gap of study to involve psychometric aspects such as; well-being, personal benefits, and life satisfaction to predict people's intentions in the context of developing the new tourist destinations.
Keywords: marketing, well being, economic, personal benefit, life satisfaction, intentions, Bali, tourism, psychometric, Tri Hita Karana.
Title: THE EFFECT OF TOURISM ECONOMICS TOWARDS LIFE SATISFACTION AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC’S INTENTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TOURIST DESTINATIONS
Author: I Ketut Darmayasa, Gusti Agung Teja Kusuma, I Ketut Setia Sapta, Anak Agung Putu Agung
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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