Literature Review Residents' attitude toward tourism development have gained much attention from tourism researchers since the late 1980s because one of factors for the success and sustainability of tourism development, which was identified by both scholars and practitioners, is the residents' attitudes [5-7]. The factors that commonly used to study residents' attitude toward tourism development were resident's perceived Abstract The main objective of this paper is to find the determinants of

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... rceived impacts of community-based ecotourism (CBET) onto livelihood assets and outcomes and the determinants of support for community-based ecotourism by using sample data collected from two successful CBETs in southwestern Cambodia, Chambok and Chi Phat CBET. The analysis method was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The present study concluded that in addition to the determinants of perceived impacts and support for tourism development found by previous studies such as community attachment, community concern, ecocentric attitude, emotional solidarity, tourism dependency, knowledge about the (tourism) industry; natural resource dependency and socioeconomic status (as a construct) are also likely to influence residents' attitude toward CBET. Moreover, as an alternative to the earlier empirical studies that used the residents' perceived impacts in term of overall economic, socio-cultural, and environmental aspects as determinants of support for tourism development; this study suggests that residents' perceived impacts of tourism on livelihood assets and outcomes may also affect support for tourism development, especially community-based ecotourism.