Assessing the temporal stability of the ecotourism evaluation scale: testing the role and value of replication studies as a reliable management tool

摘要: Developing scales is a critical step in monitoring and evaluating ecotourism to ensure sustainability. Replicating studies test if are enduring visitors’ assessments of also essential reliability credibility, track changes. This paper reports on sample 404 international visitors Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area, undertaken 2012, for scale stability change from 2006 survey. The original was cross-validated by confirmatory factor analysis, then mean-level rank-order items were reported. There strong support the model new sample; all loaded single construct; their loadings statistically significant, root-mean-square error approximation .076, comparative fit index .993, non-normed .987. Although significant decrease mean found, items’ rank-ordering...