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Sustainable Tourism Development and Tourist Behavior

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 10353

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jonathon Day

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School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA
Interests: sustainable tourism; consumer behavior; traveler behaviors; social marketing; behavioral science; behavioral economics
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Special Issue Information

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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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • sustainable tourism
  • responsible travel
  • pro-environmental tourism behaviors
  • corporate social responsibility
  • behavioral economics
  • behavioral science
  • social marketing
  • traveler psychology

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The Degree of Environmental Risk and Attractiveness as a Criterion for Visiting a Tourist Destination
by Marko D. Petrović, Ilija Milovanović, Tamara Gajić, Veronika N. Kholina, Miroslav Vujičić, Ivana Blešić, Filip Đoković, Milan M. Radovanović, Nina B. Ćurčić, Al Fauzi Rahmat, Karlygash Muzdybayeva, Gulnar Kubesova, Umyt Koshkimbayeva and Lóránt Dénes Dávid
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14215; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914215 - 26 Sep 2023
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In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the behavior of tourists and their intention to choose a destination based on various factors. The goal of this research was to determine to what extent environmental risks and the attractiveness of [...] Read more.
In recent years, more and more attention has been paid to the behavior of tourists and their intention to choose a destination based on various factors. The goal of this research was to determine to what extent environmental risks and the attractiveness of the destination influence the choice of destination and the behavior of tourists. Furthermore, the goal was to determine the influence of psychological groups of tourists on their decision to choose a tourist destination using three psychographic techniques: BFI-10 (Big Five Inventories), AIO (Activities, Interests, and Opinions), and VALS 2 (Values and Lifestyle), and a freely determined six-level scale of risk and tourist attractiveness of imagined destinations. Analyzing the results obtained through the structural modeling-path analysis model, it was determined that tourists grouped in almost all psychographic orientations, resulting from lifestyles, negatively perceive destinations with a high degree of risk and attractiveness, while, with the VALS 2 technique, only members of the action orientation tend to accept ecologically risky destinations. Despite the fact that many studies have looked at how tourists perceive various risks and behave, it is still uncommon to use an integrated approach that considers the simultaneous application of several psychological tests and a unique method of gathering responses from travelers by presenting them with descriptively imagined destinations that differ in their levels of environmental risk and tourist appeal. As a result, this study can provide a conceptual framework for theoretical and practical implications for improved risk management strategies in a specific travel destination and in areas vulnerable to environmental hazards, as well as for completing knowledge about traveler behavior in risky destinations. Full article
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Environmental Interpretation in National Parks Based on Visitors’ Spatiotemporal Behavior and Emotional Experience: A Case Study of Pudacuo National Park, China
by Chunwen Xie, Minyan Zhao, Yu Li, Tiantian Tang, Zichao Meng and Yan Ding
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 8027; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108027 - 15 May 2023
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Problems such as global environmental pollution and climate change have made the public’s desire for nature and closeness to greenery increasingly strong amid rapid urbanization. Improving the ability of experiential environmental interpretation products and services is the basis for national parks to meet [...] Read more.
Problems such as global environmental pollution and climate change have made the public’s desire for nature and closeness to greenery increasingly strong amid rapid urbanization. Improving the ability of experiential environmental interpretation products and services is the basis for national parks to meet the public’s needs, and the evaluation of their effectiveness is a necessary basis for optimizing the quality of environmental interpretation services in response to the current problems of unsynchronized environmental interpretation facilities and service levels. Using Pudacuo National Park as a case study, 365 visitors’ spatio-temporal trajectories with GPS devices and questionnaire data were collected, and the interaction changes of visitors’ external spatiotemporal behaviors and internal emotional experiences were analyzed using cluster analysis, GPS geoprocessing model construction, and emotional mean calculation methods, and the results showed that (1) Pudacuo National Park visitors mainly comprise four types of visitor clusters, which are the sightseeing type, trekking + sightseeing type, cruise type, and hiking + cruise type, as well as four types of spatio-temporal behavior patterns; the differences of visitors’ spatiotemporal behavior patterns are reflected in spatial movement, time allocation, and stopping behavior, and correspond to different emotional experience intensity. (2) Emotional experience value is positively correlated with location stay time, and emotional experience intensity is higher, corresponding to spatio-temporal behavior patterns with longer trajectory distance, longer dwell time, and more stopping behaviors, indicating that environmental services promote longer visitor stopping time and generate high-quality recreation experiences. (3) Finally, we proposed the optimization of environmental interpretation mode according to the spatiotemporal emotional differences of different types of visitor clusters. This study provides a basis for improving the quality of visitor experience and optimizing the quality of environmental interpretation services and provides a useful reference for guiding the construction of high-quality and diverse ecological experiences in national parks. Full article
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Relevance between Tourist Behavior and the Spatial Environment in Huizhou Traditional Villages—A Case Study of Pingshan Village, Yi County, China
by Xiang Gao, Zao Li and Xia Sun
Sustainability 2023, 15(6), 5016; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15065016 - 11 Mar 2023
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In recent years, the tourism industry in traditional villages has been developing rapidly due to the national call to vigorously advocate for and promote traditional culture, but there are plenty of problems and challenges facing the protection and development of traditional villages. The [...] Read more.
In recent years, the tourism industry in traditional villages has been developing rapidly due to the national call to vigorously advocate for and promote traditional culture, but there are plenty of problems and challenges facing the protection and development of traditional villages. The GPS action tracking method was adopted in this study to investigate the trajectory of tourists in typical traditional villages of Huizhou and to screen out different spatial sites with different characteristics based on the kernel density analysis. Thereby, people’s behavior in different spatial sites were analyzed in depth using the method of behavior observation, and ultimately, the relevance between the spatial environment of traditional villages, the characteristics of tourists’ actions, and their staying preferences were discussed, and hence an improvement strategy of spatial optimization was put forward accordingly. The research shows that, in Huizhou traditional villages, different scales and forms of space will affect tourists’ tour paths; the unreasonable distribution of commercial formats leads to the uneven distribution of village vitality; and traditional elements and landscape facilities are more likely to cause tourists to demonstrate a variety of behaviors. These findings provide (1) a basis for further understanding the spatial characteristics of traditional villages in Huizhou; (2) a basis for the spatial optimization of traditional villages; and (3) a new research perspective and feasible technical route for the protection, renewal, and sustainable development of traditional villages in other regions. Full article
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Why Return? Birdwatching Tourists’ Revisit Intentions Based on Structural Equation Modelling
by Jie Ren, Kaiwen Su, Yihui Zhou, Yilei Hou and Yali Wen
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14632; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114632 - 7 Nov 2022
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Birdwatching tourism is a model of ecotourism that is beneficial to the sustainable development of developing regions and is growing rapidly in China. In order to explore the development path of birdwatching tourism, this study constructs and tests a model of revisit intention [...] Read more.
Birdwatching tourism is a model of ecotourism that is beneficial to the sustainable development of developing regions and is growing rapidly in China. In order to explore the development path of birdwatching tourism, this study constructs and tests a model of revisit intention from the birdwatching tourists’ perspective and aims to understand the factors influencing tourists’ revisit intention for birdwatching destinations. The researchers collected 328 valid questionnaires from birdwatching tourists in Mingxi County, Fujian Province, China, and used structural equation modelling to validate the relationships among the study constructs. Cognitive image had the largest influence on revisit intent (0.219), followed by tourist satisfaction (0.172), and perceived image (0.155). Tourist motivation indirectly affects revisit intention through the full mediating effect of the cognitive image. This study provides some insights and references for policymakers and tourism project managers to design or adjust the construction plan of birdwatching-tourism sites. Full article
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Charapa Turtles (Podocnemis unifilis), an Opportunity to Improve Community Tourism and Contribute to Their Conservation in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
by Carlos Mestanza-Ramón, Rita Lara-Váscones, Demmy Mora-Silva, Celene B. Milanes, Angélica Saeteros-Hernández, Maritza Sánchez-Capa and Angel Cunalata-Garcia
Sustainability 2022, 14(13), 7548; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14137548 - 21 Jun 2022
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Biodiversity at the species and ecosystem level is an important basis for tourism, especially for tourism economies in landscapes optimal for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, which are addressed under the Convention on Biological Diversity. In the last two decades, the [...] Read more.
Biodiversity at the species and ecosystem level is an important basis for tourism, especially for tourism economies in landscapes optimal for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, which are addressed under the Convention on Biological Diversity. In the last two decades, the Podocnemis Unifilis turtle has presented problems represented in a decrease of individuals in their populations in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The objective of the study was to describe the characteristics and current situation of the charapa turtle (Podocnemis Unifilis), to analyze the perception of the community of the Indillama River towards this species and finally to establish a proposal for its conservation with a socio-economic contribution from the community tourism segment. The methodology used consisted of a bibliographic review, semi-structured interviews and expert judgment. The main results indicate that the charapa turtle has had population problems in the last 30 years due to various anthropogenic pressures. The inhabitants of the Río Indillama community perceive this species mainly as a source of economic income (sale of individuals and their eggs) and food by consuming their eggs and adult individuals. Finally, we present a proposal for conservation through tourism that provides experiential activities for the collection of P. unifilis eggs, nesting and release (sponsorship) of individuals, providing economic benefits to local communities. This will contribute to its conservation and local socioeconomic development. Full article
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