Special Issue "Changing Tourist Behaviors for Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lewis T.O. Cheung
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Guest Editor
Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong
Interests: sustainable tourism; protected area management; visitor impacts; ecotourism; environmental studies
Prof. Dr. Johnson C.S. Chan
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Guest Editor
Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: place branding and marketing; sustainable tourism; recreation planning and management
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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

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Exploring the Role of Tourists: Responsible Behavior Triggered by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 5774; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115774 - 21 May 2021
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Responsible tourism implies that all actors involved in tourism take responsibility for their actions. The concept of responsible tourism has been extensively addressed in tourism research and practice. However, studies analyzing the tourists’ contribution to responsible tourism have been neglected. Considering that tourists [...] Read more.
Responsible tourism implies that all actors involved in tourism take responsibility for their actions. The concept of responsible tourism has been extensively addressed in tourism research and practice. However, studies analyzing the tourists’ contribution to responsible tourism have been neglected. Considering that tourists have the potential to contribute to economic, environmental socio-cultural, and institutional sustainability, this study focuses on the role tourists can play in responsible tourism. It also examines how responsible behavior among tourists has been triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, drawing on a planned behavior perspective by concentrating on the tourist contribution to sustainable tourism, responsible tourism behavior is investigated by means of 19 semi-structured interviews. The study found that tourists are not only sensitive to sustainability but that they also behave responsibly both on site and in their travel choices. At the same time, tourists pass the buck to suppliers and providers by requesting rules, information and opportunities for responsible tourism to be created. In this regard, implications for theory and practice can be derived by informing suppliers and providers about their requested responsibilities, as well as by adding a crisis perspective to the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Full article
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The Nexus between Team Culture, Innovative Work Behaviour and Tacit Knowledge Sharing: Theory and Evidence
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4333; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084333 - 13 Apr 2021
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Tacit knowledge sharing is an essential intellectual capital for frontline employees in hotel enterprises. While the relationship of knowledge sharing with team culture (TC) and innovative work behavior (IWB) was investigated in the extant literature, little is known about the extent to which [...] Read more.
Tacit knowledge sharing is an essential intellectual capital for frontline employees in hotel enterprises. While the relationship of knowledge sharing with team culture (TC) and innovative work behavior (IWB) was investigated in the extant literature, little is known about the extent to which tacit knowledge sharing affects TC and IWB. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the role of tacit knowledge sharing in the relationship between TC and IWB. For this purpose, data were gathered from 360 department managers of Turkish 4–5 star hotels. The results were analyzed utilizing Smart PLS 3 using bootstrapping to determine the level of significance of the relationships between tacit knowledge sharing, TC and IWB. The results show statistically significant relationships between tacit knowledge sharing, TC and IWB. Moreover, tacit knowledge sharing has a mediating role in the relationship between team culture and innovative work behavior. Full article
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Mitigating the Impact of Touristification on the Psychological Carrying Capacity of Residents
Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2737; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052737 - 03 Mar 2021
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This study explores the impact of touristification on the residents of the Seochon and Bukchon areas of Seoul, Korea. Touristification refers to changing an urban space to promote tourism; however, this process displaces the original residents and affects the commercial and social fabric [...] Read more.
This study explores the impact of touristification on the residents of the Seochon and Bukchon areas of Seoul, Korea. Touristification refers to changing an urban space to promote tourism; however, this process displaces the original residents and affects the commercial and social fabric of neighborhoods. We examine the psychological carrying capacity of local residents to adapt to touristification, and present ways to mitigate the negative effects of touristification. First, a semantic differential scale was used to elicit adjectives to assess the carrying capacity of residents to adapt. This was correlated with a classification of the residents’ awareness of the changes. Second, a space improvement index was developed to verify whether an improvement in the physical space will change the psychological carrying capacity of residents. A space improvement simulation indicated the changes in carrying capacity based on the improvement of space. Finally, we established the key factors for each space type and proposed strategies to mitigate the impact of touristification. Full article
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