Building responsible and sustainable tourism: The effects of community attitudes and place attachment on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

IF 2.4 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM Journal of Ecotourism Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1080/14724049.2023.2276661
Bradley G. Winton
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ABSTRACTEnvironmental sustainability in tourism management continues to be topic that needs investigation. This study advances the understanding of sustainable tourism by providing both new context through the study of a unique population of residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and applying a psychological theoretical lens. The argument is made that residents within a tourism area can utilize their sustainable tourism attitudes to facilitate action that is both environmentally responsible and supportive of a greater sustainable tourism development plan. Hypotheses are developed to suggest a mediated relationship between sustainable tourism attitude and these actions through a resident’s place attachment. Data from residents in a coastal tourism area were tested with a regression-based approach and indicate place attachment as a necessary linkage to environmentally responsible behavior and support of sustainable tourism development. These results suggest that it is not enough to have a sustainable attitude toward tourism. There also needs to be the development of identification with the place one lives. This research continues a conversation about attitudes in sustainable tourism by establishing that resident attitudes significantly affect the actions they take toward sustainable tourism. Further, this research expands into previously understudied geographies with complicated ecological, business, and residential dynamics.KEYWORDS: sustainabilitytourismattitudebehaviorplace attachment Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was not supported by any funding agency or grant.
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建立负责任和可持续的旅游业:社区态度和地方依恋对密西西比海湾沿岸的影响
旅游管理中的环境可持续性一直是需要研究的话题。本研究通过对密西西比海湾沿岸独特的居民群体进行研究,并运用心理学理论视角,提供了新的背景,从而提高了对可持续旅游的理解。论点是,旅游区内的居民可以利用他们的可持续旅游态度来促进既对环境负责又支持更大的可持续旅游发展计划的行动。假设提出了可持续旅游态度和这些行为之间的中介关系,通过居民的地方依恋。本文采用回归方法对沿海旅游区居民的数据进行了测试,结果表明,地方依恋是对环境负责的行为和对可持续旅游发展的支持的必要联系。这些结果表明,只有可持续的旅游态度是不够的。还需要发展对一个人生活的地方的认同。这项研究通过确定居民的态度显著影响他们对可持续旅游采取的行动,继续了关于可持续旅游态度的对话。此外,本研究扩展到以前未被充分研究的地理区域,具有复杂的生态、商业和住宅动态。关键词:可持续性旅游态度行为地点依恋披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突。本研究未得到任何资助机构或基金的支持。
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Journal of Ecotourism
Journal of Ecotourism Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
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6.40
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32
期刊介绍: The Journal of Ecotourism seeks to advance the field by examining the social, economic, and ecological aspects of ecotourism at a number of scales, and including regions from around the world. Journal of Ecotourism welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research, particularly where it contributes to the dissemination of new ideas and models of ecotourism planning, development, management, and good practice. While the focus of the journal rests on a type of tourism based principally on natural history - along with other associated features of the man-land nexus - it will consider papers which investigate ecotourism as part of a broader nature based tourism, as well as those works which compare or contrast ecotourism/ists with other forms of tourism/ists.
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