One of major purposes of tourism development in a destination is to improve the quality of life (QOL) of host community. In the tourism literature, resident QOL has been discussed in the research of resident attitudes toward tourism. However, few studies have directly investigated residents’ perceptions of QOL in the context of tourism development. This study aims to explicitly assess tourism’s influences on resident community QOL and therefore develops the tourism-related community quality of life (TCQOL) approach. TCQOL represents resident perceptions of community quality of life affected by tourism and includes two dimensions, community conditions and community services, which are influenced by tourism development most. The indicators of TCQOL are developed from extant community quality of life literature and tourism impacts study. The measuring approach incorporates resident perceptions of satisfaction, importance, and tourism effects on selected indicators. This approach could be a useful tool for tourism practitioners and scholars to understand resident perceptions of community QOL, assess changes of resident perceived community QOL in a host community, and compare the community QOL experiences to other areas.