Sustainable Tourism Development and Tourist Behavior

Dear Colleagues,

Travelers have a critical role in improving the sustainability of the tourism system, despite the prevailing focus of sustainable research on supply issues. This Special Issue will feature research that addresses tourist behavior and its impact on the sustainable development of tourism. Anticipated and welcome topics include the determinants of pro-environmental tourism behavior, including the theoretical foundations of tourist behaviors, as well as the mechanisms behind these behaviors—from social marketing to behavioral science, behavioral economics, and nudges.

The issue will also look at psychological influences of behaviors, including eco-guilt and flight shaming, social marketing and destination branding.

This Special Issue of Sustainability explores new advances in sustainable tourism and tourist behavior and will include papers focusing on (though not limited to):

• Pro-environmental behavior and tourism;
• Applications of behavioral economics to achieve sustainable tourism outcomes;
• Flight shaming, environmental guilt and tourism;
• The impact of social marketing on tourist behaviors;
• Destination branding and its effects on tourist attitude and behavior;
• Bridging the intention–action gap;
• Challenges to conventional thinking on tourism behaviors.

Dr. Jonathon Day
Guest Editor

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