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This study examines the influence of social support from intermediary organizations on innovativeness and subjective happiness in community-based tourism (CBT). The authors collected data from 236 residents who had participated in the Tour Dure project in South Korea. The analysis, using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), shows that social support from intermediary organizations has a positive effect on the innovativeness of residents. Further, the more innovativeness the residents showed, the more their subjective happiness increased. In other words, social support from intermediary organizations plays an important role in improving innovativeness, and in turn, the subjective happiness of residents. There have been many claims that resident participation is important in CBT, but it has usually been treated as a slogan without offering specific proposals for boosting such participation. This study discovered that the social support given by intermediary organizations to residents plays an important role in innovativeness and subjective happiness. It also shows that it is effective to encourage residents' participation in CBT by offering social support from intermediary organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the professional characteristics and migrant networks of Korean–Chinese returnees. A notable feature of the current Korean–Chinese migrant group in Korea is the emergence of third generation tour guides. The in-depth interviews with 12 third generation Korean–Chinese tour guides were conducted and analyzed within the grounded theory framework. A total of 110 concepts in 27 subcategories making up 11 main categories are derived. The results of axial coding indicated that the causal condition was 'to become a tour guide in Korea'. The central phenomena that have been emerging in the characteristics and migrant networks of third generation Korean–Chinese tour guides are 'nostalgia' and 'our stressful life in Korea'. Contextual conditions are 'socio-cultural distance' and the 'vulnerabilities of the job environment', while the intervening conditions are 'transnational networks', 'use of SNS (Social network system)', 'colleagues like family', and 'comfortable life'. Actions/interactions are moderated by 'migrant networks' and consequences are shown to be 'identity formation'. The core category of this study is thus 'embracing socio-cultural realities and forming diverse identities through migrant networks'. This study provides theoretical and managerial implications for the sustainable and professional characteristics and migrant networks of third generation Korean–Chinese tour guides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]