Sustainable Consumer Behavior in Transport and Tourism
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 2105
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The broader post-COVID-19 era, along with continued concerns around climate change, presents both considerable challenges and also opportunities to promote sustainable practices and innovations in a broad range of transport and tourism applications. At the heart of finding a balance in these areas is understanding the ways in which consumers respond in terms of their choices and acceptance of various solutions, both from a micro and macro perspective. A range of factors at various stages of the consumer decision making process in all areas of sustainable tourism and transport are fruitful for consideration. These include the establishment of knowledge about such practices, understanding key attributes in comparing comparable and noncomparable alternatives and exploring barriers to adoption, and highlighting various cognitive, behavioral, or emotional responses following adoption or non-adoption.
A plethora of innovations and changes to tourism and transport continually emerge for consumers to consider. In transport, the demand for low-emission vehicles such as electric or hybrid vehicles is just one example. In tourism, the demand for ecotourism, sustainable use of resources ranging from water, food, recycling, or resource consumption (e.g., electricity and the intersection of smart technologies for hotel air conditioning) present more examples equally worthy of investigation by researchers.
In line with the aims of Sustainablity, this Special Issue encourages researchers to publish their experimental, computational, and theoretical research relating to consumer behavior in tourism and/or transport. Researchers are welcome to draw on their understanding from various perspectives, including those from natural and applied sciences, engineering, economics, social sciences, and humanities with the overarching aims of detailing and promoting understanding, and of permitting predictions and impact assessments of global change and development, related to sustainable tourism and transport. All forms of research methodological approaches to this topic are encouraged, including quantitative, qualitative, or multi-methods.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Barriers and enablers to the adoption of sustainable private transport particularly electronic and hybrid vehicles
- The role of ride sharing and other aspects of consumer behavior in the shared economy
- Consumer responses to alternative sustainable modes of public and private transport (e.g., cycling)
- Marketing for sustainable tourism development
- Aspects of green tourism from a consumer decision making perspective
- Catering for particular consumer segments (e.g., persons with disability) in sustainable transport or tourism
- The consumers role in circular economies focusing on aspects of transport or tourism
- Tourism and environmental pollution from a consumers’ perspective
- Overtourism
- Ecotourism
- Sustainable tourism and transport in a post-COVID-19 era
- Consumer behavior in response to sustainable infrastructure or innovations in rail, cruise, or air travel
- Consumer responses to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in transport and tourism
- Marketing sustainable urban or rural tourism initiatives
- Consumer behavior relating to smart technologies for sustainable transport or tourism
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Paul F. Burke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable tourism
- sustainable transport
- circular economy
- overtourism
- smart tourism
- eco tourism
- energy consumption
- environmental pollution
- public transport
- climate change
- urban transport
- environmentally friendly transport
