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Ritualized host-tourist interaction and storytelling intentions: the roles of sense of belonging and group size Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Lujun Su, Xuan Hu, Scott R. Swanson, Xuehuan He
Guided by interaction ritual chains theory, this research assesses the relationship of ritualized host-tourist interactions on sense of belonging and storytelling intentions, using group size (smal...
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Sustaining the brand and branding sustainability: landscape as homeland in Greenland’s visual marketing Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-08 Randy Bruin, Elizabeth Cooper, Machiel Lamers, Berill Blair
Arctic destinations are continually reshaping their global identities to manage external expectations about the region. Existing portrayals of Greenland often stereotype the area as untouched wilde...
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Gender dynamics and sustainable practices: exploring food waste management among female chefs in the hospitality industry Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Mark Ashton, Hakan Sezerel, Viachaslau Filimonau, Semra Gunay
This study explores how female chefs in professional kitchens manage food waste in their predominantly masculine occupational culture. By adopting the Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) model and a...
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A machine learning approach to classifying sustainability practices in hotel management Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 María del Carmen Pérez López, Ana María Plata Díaz, Manuel Martin Salvador, Germán López Pérez
Advancing sustainable efforts in hotels, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is important for addressing environmental and social impacts and promoting long-term viability in the ...
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Promoting pro-environmental behaviour spillover through chatbots Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Gilang Maulana Majid, Iis Tussyadiah, Yoo Ri Kim, Jason Li Chen
Given proper facilitation, pro-environmental behaviour in tourist destinations may spill over to the daily lives of tourists. Recent advancements in conversational artificial intelligence (AI) may ...
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Tourism and the climate crisis Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Daniel Scott
2023 was a landmark year for climate change, with hundreds of climate records broken around the world concurrent with the conclusion of the IPCC Sixth Assessment (AR6) process and the first United ...
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Institutionalised tourism policy goals: fit to address climate change? Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Johanna Loehr, Susanne Becken
Tourism requires more ambitious climate actions to align the sector with a net zero emissions world and policy will play an increasingly important role in this. This study examined 1112 current pol...
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If you want to learn about real behaviour, measure real behaviour Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Giampaolo Viglia, Sara Dolnicar, Diletta Acuti, Juan Luis Nicolau
We argue that research aiming to understand or change human behavior must measure real behavior, not just behavioral intentions, to draw valid conclusions. The work highlights the well-established ...
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Valuing plurality in mindsets and paradigms in sustainable tourism research Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Alexandra Coghlan
Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Why and when physical cleanliness increases tourists’ payments under pay-what-you-want pricing: the mediating role of moral self-regard and the moderating role of regulatory focus Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Bi Yang, Tian Ye, YooHee Hwang, Yujie Zhao, Anna S. Mattila
The pay-what-you-want pricing scheme has been frequently employed by nonprofit and for-profit tourism organizations. While this voluntary payment format can foster inclusivity by making tourism acc...
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Membership duration of tourism firms in the United Nations Global Compact Programme Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Eva Hagsten, Martin Thomas Falk
This study examines the membership duration of travel and leisure (tourism) firms in the United Nations Global Compact Sustainability Reporting Programme between 2007 and 2020. Important factors of...
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‘Assertive + machine-written’ and ‘non-assertive + human-written’ just feel right: how do language assertiveness and typeface interact to impact environmental messaging persuasiveness in tourism? Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Bin Wang, Binqian Zhang, Jay Kandampully, Fengyuan Xie, Jin Wang
The application of assertive language in environmental persuasion has produced mixed results. Besides the language content intensity such as assertiveness, this research proposes that a congruency ...
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The awe-habitual model: exploring tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in religious settings Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Ying Zhang, Wenwen Jia, Jin Hooi Chan, Angelo Sciacca
This study proposes a novel comprehensive model integrating contextual, habitual, and psychological processes to address the multi-determination feature of tourists’ pro-environmental behavior (TPE...
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Tourism and climate change stocktake: a call to action Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Susanne Becken, Daniel Scott
The first climate action stocktake cycle under the Paris Agreement was completed in 2023 to assess global progress on mitigation, adaptation, and climate finance goals. State-driven action needs to...
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Environmental communication in wildlife tourism: narrative framing and emotion effect on the willingness to pay for a destination Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Shanshan Dai, Puyue Zhang, Shina Li, Honggang Xu
Finding an appropriate environmental communication format to enhance tourists’ willingness to pay (WTP) for wildlife tourism destinations is a cost-effective and accessible method to mitigate human...
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A choice experiment economic valuation of cultural heritage tourism ecosystems Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Jonathan Daniel Gómez-Zapata, Luis César Herrero-Prieto, James Alberto Arboleda-Cardona
Economic valuation studies of non-market goods in culture and tourism have a long and recognised track record. Many studies focus on evaluating well-defined examples such as monuments, institutions...
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The moderating effect of interest rates on the relationship between ESG and firm performance in the US restaurant industry Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Hoyoung Shin, Hyoung Ju Song, Kyung Ho Kang
The rapid changes in interest rates experienced during and following the COVID-19 pandemic posed significant challenges for management committed to enhancing the ESG strategies of firms. This study...
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The slow road to sustainable tourism: an interspecies perspective on decent work Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-13 Helen Wadham, Katherine Dashper
Existing understandings of decent work—and the wider 2030 Agenda—are profoundly anthropocentric. This paper explores how focusing on interspecies relations subverts our ideas about decent work and ...
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A virtual geobibliography of polar tourism and climate change Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 O. Cenk Demiroglu, Dorothee Bohn, Halvor Dannevig, C. Michael Hall, Christy Hehir, Linda Lundmark, Robert O. Nilsson, Julia Olsen, Kaarina Tervo-Kankare, Marisol Vereda, Johannes Welling
The polar regions are increasingly at the center of attention as the hot spots of climate crisis as well as tourism development. The recent IPCC reports highlight several climate change risks for t...
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Embedding justice into climate policy and practice relevant to tourism Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Raymond Rastegar, Susanne Becken
Climate change in tourism discussions rarely address justice concerns. This work critically examines the intricate relationship between climate change, climate justice, and tourism, emphasising the...
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Green rewards vs. non-green rewards? The impact of hotel marketing incentives on guests’ green consumption intentions Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Weiping Yu, Xin Liao, Siyu Ji, Fasheng Cui
This study explores the impact of hotels’ green rewards and non-green rewards on guests’ green consumption intentions (GCIs) to drive guests to implement green consumption through hotel marketing i...
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Effects of organisational, individual and contextual factors on employees’ intentions to adopt green practices Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Rohit H. Trivedi, Syairah Aimi Shahron, Chengang Wang, Kyoko Fukukawa, Jorge Lengler
Building on the perspectives of the theory of planned behaviour, behaviour spillover, and social bond, this study develops and tests an integrative framework that explores the linkages between hote...
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Cause-related marketing in tourism: how goal framing promotes consumer prosocial behaviours Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Biqiang Liu, Brent Moyle, Anna Kralj, Yixue Chen, Yaoqi Li
Cause-related marketing is commonly regarded as an effective tool for tourism enterprises to bolster their commitment to sustainable practices, fostering environmental and social responsibility wit...
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Consumer behaviours in social enterprises: empathy with employees with disabilities and intention to revisit the social restaurant Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Mert Gürlek, İlker Kılıç, Elif Şenel
This research aims to find out why visitors tend to revisit social enterprises employing people with disabilities. The research used an exploratory sequential mixed methods design to achieve this g...
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The double whammy effect of gender and age on customer responses: a focus on tour guides Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Hyewon Youn, Shaoying Chen
Sustainability in a workplace is built upon the inclusion of aging workers and gender equality. Although prior tourism research has examined the impact of employees’ age and gender on customers’ be...
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Sustainability Sham Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Vimal Bhatt
Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pathway to zero emissions in global tourism: opportunities, challenges, and implications Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Paul Peeters, Bernadett Papp
Human emissions must reach zero by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change. Most sectors have achieved a downward path for their greenhouse gas emissions, but tourism’s emissions have continued to g...
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Correction Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20
Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Correction Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-20
Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Impact evaluation with process tracing: explaining causal processes in an EU-interreg sustainable tourism intervention Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Luigina Jessica Montano, Corina Elsenbroich, Xavier Font, Manuel Alector Ribeiro
Drawing from the field of complex evaluations we discuss a novel application of process tracing for the evaluation of complex tourism interventions. We argue that to better evidence impact of touri...
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The influence of allocentrism on residents’ sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in collectivist rural tourism destinations – a perspective from face and guanxi Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Xiaoli Lu, Meng Zhou, Jin Bai, Zhenyan Huang, Jingmin Zhu
Given the dual research gap between the topic of sustainable entrepreneurship in tourism and non-Western cultural contexts, this study integrates social identity and social embeddedness theories an...
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Switching off for the planet: ‘surface mimicry’ and energy saving practices in peer-to-peer accommodation Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Yue (Briana) Liu, Guojie Zhang, James Higham
The introduction of novel energy-saving practices for the peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation sector is a key factor in reducing the effects of greenhouse gas emissions in tourism and hospitality. “Su...
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Doing all we can? Destination management organizations’ net-zero pledges and their decarbonization plans Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Mireia Guix, Nazila Babakhani, Ya-Yen Sun
Strong leadership by destination management organizations (DMOs) is urgently needed to foster significant emissions reductions at the macro-level. With an increasing number of DMOs pledging to the ...
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Expanding self, breaking stereotypes, and building hospitality: resident mindfulness’ role in host-tourist interaction Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Collins Opoku Antwi, Adjei Peter Darko, Jianzhen Zhang, Eric Adom Asante, Patrick Brobbey, Jun Ren
Mindfulness is a critical instrument in sustainable tourism development. However, existing literature on mindfulness’ role in hospitality and tourism sustainability has mostly focused on tourists’ ...
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Protected area influence over resident attitudes towards tourism in gateway communities Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Chase Perren, B. Bynum Boley, Eric M. White, Gary T. Green, Kyle M. Woosnam
While there has been extensive research on resident sentiment towards tourism, few have explored the uniqueness of gateway communities and their relationship to the Protected Areas (PA) surrounding...
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Meta-analysis of the climate change-tourism demand relationship Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Wanru Zhou, Futu Faturay, Sally Driml, Ya-Yen Sun
As climate change urgency intensifies, understanding its impact on destinations and the development of adaptation strategies becomes critical for sustainable tourism. This article, through a meta-a...
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Scratching beneath the surface: a systems thinking approach for uncovering hidden dynamics impacting tourism and poaching Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Vanessa Taveras-Dalmau, Alexandra Coghlan
Approaches that capture the complex interplay between tourism and wildlife crime, such as systems thinking, would enable a holistic understanding of tourism systems. The global surge in poaching du...
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Measurement validation of a consumer-driven environmental, social, and governance (ESG) index for the airline industry Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Miyoung Sim, Hany Kim
While recent research on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors emphasizes their relevance for corporate financial benefits, a gap remains in understanding how consumers’ perceptions o...
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Tourist re-enchantment: cultivating planetary wellbeing through more-than-human entanglements in the forest Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Jelena Farkic, Wenjie Cai, Gorana Isailovic
Published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Humorous or serious? The interaction effect of language style and tourism activity type on tourist well-being Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Lujun Su, Liqing Gong, Yinghua Huang
Promoting Well-being is one of United Nations’ sustainable development goals and it also attracts increasing attentions in tourism research. Based on the stereotype content model (SCM), this study ...
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The paradox between means and end: workforce nationality diversity and a strategic CSR approach to avoid greenwashing in tourism accommodations Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Esther Poveda-Pareja, Bartolomé Marco-Lajara, Mercedes Úbeda-García, Encarnación Manresa-Marhuenda
This paper provides tourism companies with new solutions to enhance sustainable value creation through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), following a triple bottom line approach. We consider th...
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Understanding how tourists with disabilities’ perceptions of residents’ emotional solidarity influence their behavioural intention: the mediating role of perceived fairness Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yun Rao, Ivan Ka Wai Lai
Tourists with disabilities face several constraints when travelling, including interpersonal issues. The intergroup contact theory suggests that intergroup contact can diminish social prejudice. Th...
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Accelerating small and medium sized tourism enterprises’ engagement with climate change Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Stefan Gössling, Stephan Reinhold
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the tourism sector play crucial yet often underestimated roles in climate change mitigation, contributing to approximately half of the sector’s gree...
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Enhancing compliance assessment through regenerative transformations – A food waste perspective Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Kalara McGregor, Susanne Becken, Sera Vada, Brendan Mackey
Addressing food waste is a growing priority for hotel groups. However, aligning corporate sustainability goals with the practicalities of individual hotels is challenging. While hotels increasingly...
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The moderating role of tourism intensity on residents’ intentions towards pro-tourism behaviours Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Milene Lança, João Albino Silva, Jorge Andraz, Rui Nunes, Luis Nobre Pereira
This study analysed the complex dynamics of tourism based on perspectives and intentional behaviours of residents. The analysis focused on how residents perceive the effects of tourism, their satis...
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Recasting sustainable summer holidaying: scripts, time experiences, freedom, place change and environmental imprints Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Eivind Farstad, Mehmet Mehmetoglu, Iratxe Landa-Mata, James Higham, Debbie Hopkins, Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen
In the summer of 2020, COVID-19 border closures, travel restrictions, infection risks and other uncertainties forced many people to cancel or adapt their holiday plans. This disruption created an e...
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Towards the search for a sustainable destination: a gender perspective Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Hanaa Osman, Lorraine Brown
Although gender and sustainability have been topics of discussion in international discourse since 1980, little has been done to connect the two. While one of the United Nations Sustainable Goals U...
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Firms’ green knowledge sharing and tourists’ green electronic word-of-mouth intention: a two-wave time-lagged study of moderated mediation model Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Tho Huu-Hoang Nguyen, Michal Pilík, Nhat Tan Pham
To address sustainable development goals in the tourism sector, this study sheds light on the importance of novel green marketing strategies as critical tools for promoting environmental sustainabi...
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Factors affecting food waste at food festivals: the moderating effect of “Camera Eats First” Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Su Zhang, Dan Zhang
Food festivals play a significant role in driving economic growth and facilitating cultural exploration. However, they also present challenges to sustainability, particularly concerning food waste,...
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The Dolphins: poetry in studying ethical tourism and sustainability Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Koushiki Choudhury
This study explores the inclusion of poetry in the realm of consumer research in tourism, consumption, and sustainability, with a study of the poem “The Dolphins” by Carol Ann Duffy. It reflects on...
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“It is my place”: residents’ community-based psychological ownership and its impact on rural tourism participation Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Jingjing Guan, Dingwen Zhu, Shiyun Cheng, Qiucheng Li
The participation of residents plays a crucial role in achieving sustainable development of tourism in rural community. This study proposes a novel concept, namely community-based psychological own...
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“I am not unsustainable; I am on holiday!” moral disengagement and the holiday mindset of young travellers during a cruise Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Marta Pizzetti, Giulia Miniero, Michelle Bonera, Anna Paola Codini, Samantha Elam
Tourists often fail to follow through with their sustainable behaviour intentions. This lack of compliance can only truly be explored by observing their actions when immersed in the context of a va...
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Identifying segment-specific barriers to ordering environmentally sustainable plant-based meat dishes in restaurants Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 David Fechner, Bettina Grün, Sara Dolnicar
Eating less meat when dining out can help mitigate climate change. Plant-based meats can facilitate the transition to a more environmentally sustainable tourism sector. However, uptake of these pro...
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Exploring the role of psychological ownership in tourists’ shift toward sustainable behavior in cultural tourism Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Wenxian Chen, Minyu Wu
This paper examines tourists’ experiences related to guest-host interactions and their role in the development of tourists’ psychological ownership to mitigate the attitude-behavior gaps in sustain...
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Overcoming double positive spillovers: automatic habits and dual environmental cognitions driving pro-environmental behaviors among hotel customers Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Xuerong Peng, Pei Fang, Seoki Lee, Wenhao Song, Lin Wang, Dan Zhou
Promoting customers’ pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) is crucial for greening the hotel industry. However, customers often hesitate to adopt resource-saving PEBs in public places like hotels due ...
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Scale development for measuring sustainability of urban destinations from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Shi Yin Chee, Atchara Salee
This study develops four subjective scales to measure a destination’s sustainability from the perspectives of residents, tourists, businesses and government agencies. Using the expert opinion surve...
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How climate change and population growth will shape attendance and human-wildlife interactions at British Columbia parks Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Dayna K. Weststrate, Aimee Chhen, Stefano Mezzini, Kirk Safford, Michael J. Noonan
Protected areas are important for ecological conservation while simultaneously supporting culturally and economically valuable tourism. However, excessive visitor pressure strain operations and ris...
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Effective Chinese-to-English biotic interpretation in ecotourism destinations: a corpus-based interdisciplinary study Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Qiang (Jason) Li, Young Ng
Ecotourism interpretation pertains to vital public education regarding environmental conservation. At present, there is no professional standard or system for interpretation in this domain, which p...
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Who is sharing green eWOM? Big data evidence from the travel and tourism industry Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 David D’Acunto, Raffaele Filieri, Stefano Amato
Although research has investigated the drivers of pro-environmental intentions, little research has adopted big data to understand the socio-demographic profile of customers who share electronic wo...
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Environmental sustainability in the event industry: a systematic review and a research agenda Journal of Sustainable Tourism (IF 6.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Antonio Cavallin Toscani, Luca Vendraminelli, Andrea Vinelli
Over the past few decades, the event industry has witnessed massive growth worldwide. This, however, has come with considerable environmental costs. Improper management of any type of event can ind...