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0000-0002-3929-550X
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 21-02-2021
DOI: 10.3390/SU13042326
Abstract: The green accommodation sectors are increasingly committed to implementing environmental management practices while enhancing guests’ pro-environmental behaviour. However, it is not easy to change tourists’ behaviour as there are many factors influencing tourists’ participation in green management actions. This paper argues that a combination of multiple factors such as visitor characteristics or previous environmental experience needs to be examined to determine how these factors are differently associated with the type of pro-environmental behaviour. In particular, this study also investigates how environmentally responsible tourist markets can engage differently in different types of pro-environmental behaviour. Visitors staying at the green accommodation in Kangaroo Island, South Australia, were studied using self-administered questionnaires. The findings of this study confirmed the significant role of environmentally responsible travel experience as a strong predictor of two types of pro-environmental behaviour (e.g., energy-saving and recycling vs. eco-product consumption behaviour) and its moderating effects on the relationship between visitor characteristics and pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs). Furthermore, this environmental-responsibility-based segmentation approach provides green-oriented accommodation sectors with some managerial implications for improving green accommodation practices that can be operated on different principles for two different targeted markets based on their environmental responsibility. This study recommends that more in-depth investigations of other barriers or facilitators of pro-environmental behaviour are necessary to fully address this issue and to ultimately influence tourists’ responsible support for environmental management practices implemented by the green accommodation sector.
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 14-03-2018
DOI: 10.3727/108354218X15143857349503
Abstract: With the growing emphasis on sustainable tourism, visitor management practices such as interpretation have played an important role in achieving the multiple goals of tourism—both enhancing tourist satisfaction and fostering proenvironmental behavior. Yet previous research reveals contradictory results of interpretation effectiveness on environmental conservation outcomes. This study attempts to explain some of those contradictions by separating out general from site-specific proenvironmental behavioral intentions. This study also offers a conceptual and methodological basis for distinguishing interrelationships between interpretation and three antecedents of proenvironmental behavior, including specific environmental attitude, tourist satisfaction, and two types of behavioral intentions. Self-completed surveys were used at an Australian iconic nature-based attraction, the Great Barrier Reef. The findings highlight that interpretation has both a direct and an indirect relationship (through the mediating factors of visitor satisfaction and environmental attitude) to proenvironmental behavioral intentions. Furthermore, interpretation is more likely to be associated with site-specific proenvironmental behaviors than general ones. The results have implications for the use of interpretation as a visitor management strategy, for behavioral change in environmental practices, and for tourist experience enhancement.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-01-2017
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.3727/154427212X13431568321546
Abstract: In recent years, geotourism has emerged as a distinctive form of nature-based tourism but there is little understanding of the extent to which geotourism experiences influence tourist decisions and behavior. As geotourism is still in its infancy in many destinations, there is a lack of research on understanding the characteristics of geotourists, including their actual interests, expectations, preferences, satisfaction, and behavior. This article reports the findings of a study which examined the profile of people visiting the Flinders Ranges region of South Australia, which is promoted as a geotourism destination. A survey of visitors identified three market segments which differed with respect to travel behavior and experiential outcomes. The findings are used to question the current status of the geotourism market and to discuss destination development strategies that reflect opportunities presented by different market segments.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-04-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-08-2022
DOI: 10.1002/JTR.2549
Abstract: Wine tourism is a social phenomenon influenced by the presence and the dynamics of many in iduals (e.g. service personnel, travel companions, and other tourists). This study, carried out in South Australia on 394 winery visitors, attempts to confirm, and further explore, the important role of social interaction as part of the winescape experience, its multidimensionality and its impact on wine tourist decision‐making behaviour. Results of the factor‐cluster analysis demonstrate that different clusters exist based on wine tourists' perceptions of their social interactions (i.e. ‘social interaction enthusiasts’ and ‘travel companion‐oriented interactors’), thus supporting the idea that social interaction can be considered a valid market segmentation variable. The findings also show that segments differ in terms of their overall wine tourism experience and behaviour. Moreover, the two groups show significant differences also regarding several socio‐demographic characteristics, as well as travel patterns. Contributions to the body of knowledge and managerial implications are discussed, and suggestions for further research are given.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-07-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-04-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-05-2010
Abstract: Interpretation has been recognized as a useful tool in managing visitor behavior in nature-based tourism areas. This study explores a multiple assessment approach to identify the strengths and weaknesses of site-based interpretation in influencing multidimensional aspects of attitudes and behavioral intentions toward local environmental issues. Visitors to the Lulworth coastal area in England were studied using on-site questionnaire survey data. The results of the research highlight that the effectiveness of interpretation varied in relation to a number of different aspects of responsible environmental behavior and local conservation issues. The findings also reveal that it fostered visitors’ awareness of and their support for management policies but its impacts were limited to site-specific responsible behavior related in this case to geological and environmental conservation.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-03-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-04-2022
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 07-12-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2014
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 19-11-2021
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