Abstract:
This study aims to analyze the factors of negative social impacts of tourism
and their relationship with its entire effects on the local community in Panama
region of Sri Lanka by using quantitative method. The questionnaire designed to
collect the qualitative data is in the format of Five Likert Scale. The data have
been collected in year 2018/2019. Factor Analysis, Multi-co-linearity Statistics,
Multiple Regression, and Analysis of Residuals are the techniques used in this
study to achieve the objective of this study by using SPSS v.20. The Total Effect of
tourism is used as the dependent variable in the model of this study. Use of Drugs
& Changes in Food Patterns, Worry about Discipline of Children, Exploitation
of Children, and Malpractices of Women are the four independent variables
representing negative social impacts of tourism extracted from the factor analysis.
There are direct relationships between all the independent variables and the
dependent variable. All the negative social impacts of tourism are confirmed by
the direction, the significance, and strength of positive linear relationship of the
dependent and the independent variables. The effects of Worry about Discipline
of Children are perceived by the local community preferably higher among the
negative social factors.
