Changing Tourist Behaviors for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 23711
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable tourism; protected area management; visitor impacts; ecotourism; environmental studies
Interests: sustainable tourism; place branding; visitor experience; well-being
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue addresses the behavioral changes of tourists toward promoting sustainability in various tourism sectors all over the world.
Tourism development has been playing an important role in the world economy, and increasing the mobility of people all over the world may contribute to not only economic development, but also environmental deterioration. Sustainable operation in the tourism industry has been promoted in the past decades. Many tourism sectors have adopted environmentally friendly approaches in operation and encouraged tourists to adopt pro-environmental behavior to facilitate environmental conservation. Research on the changing behaviors of tourists is therefore becoming prominent to understand the causes and impacts of changing tourist behavior, a topic which is definitely worth further exploration.
Local, regional, and international case studies, original quantitative and qualitative research, conceptual or theoretical approaches, and discussions focusing on the changing practices of tourists on tourism destination, product and service selection, as well as exploring potential causes for such changes can be addressed.
Possible topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to):
- Tourist purchasing behavior;
- Environmentally responsible behavior of tourists;
- Environmental attitudes of tourists;
- Sustainable tourism development;
- Best practices for tourism sustainability;
- Tourism planning and development;
- Ecotourism;
- Visitor management;
- Marketing of sustainable tourism;
- Case studies of sustainable tourism.
Dr. Lewis T.O. Cheung
Dr. Johnson C.S. Chan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmentally responsible behavior
- sustainable tourism
- visitor impacts
- environmental conservation