1.7 Main Questions of the Book

Following the above description, the research questions for this book are:

What is the relationship between local residents and the MICE-hosting city?

What motivations attract local residents to attend MICE?

Are there any effects for destinations' physical environment, natural environment, social environment, and government involvement from MICE hosting?

Do these effects influence local residents' life?

These issues form the basic questions, which are based on the tourism academic literature. More important features also emerged through an examination of the MICE literature as presented in Chapter Two.