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Maritime leisure tourism is one of the world’s largest industries of contemporary tourism with a major participation in the tourist economies of nations that have developed it. Yet, it has resulted in negative effects such as crime, ecosystem destruction, gentrification, and conflict between tourists and local residents. The residents’ support for tourism development is crucial component to pursue sustainability of the development. From this point of view, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate relationship among local residents’ perceived tourism impact, sense of community, and support for maritime leisure development. To investigate the relationship among the constructs, the study carried out several statistical analyses including descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation model(SEM). The major analytical results of the study showed that both perceived sociocultural and environmental tourism impacts of local residents had positive regression weight on sense of community while economic tourism impact did not. Moreover, both economic and sociocultural tourism impacts of local residents had positive regression weight on support fo maritime leisure tourism development while environmental tourism impact did not. Local residents’ perceived sense of community, furthermore, had a positive regression weight on support fo maritime leisure tourism development. Based on the results, an implication is presented to induce developers and policy-makers of maritime leisure tourism to cultivate individuals’ sense of community for gaining more supports for the development. In addition, residents’ perceived tourism impact and their effect on support for further development should be continuously monitored and managed.