Convention Tourism and Sustainability: Exploring Influencing Factors on Delegate Green Behavior That Reduce Environmental Impacts

Han, Heesup; Lee, Soyeun; Al-Ansi, Amr; Kim, Hyeon‐Cheol; Ryu, Hyungseo Bobby; Kim, Jinkyung Jenny; Kim, Wansoo

doi:10.3390/su11143903

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“…In the hospitality literature, previous research has investigated individuals' eco‐friendly behavior in the home environment, because it is regarded as a key driver of pro‐environmental behavior while staying at a hotel (e.g., Dimara et al, 2017; Han et al, 2019; Han & Hyun, 2018a; Holmes et al, 2019; Untaru et al, 2016). Pro‐environmental behavior refers to actions that are undertaken by individuals in order to conserve natural resources, such as water and energy, and with the intention to obtain a better environmental quality (Carrete, Castaño, Felix, Centeno, & González, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Environmental concern has long been regarded as an important determinant of environmentally friendly behaviors (e.g., Aprile & Fiorillo, 2017; Han, Lee, et al, 2019; Han, Lee, Trang, & Kim, 2018). According to Dunlap and Jones (2002, p. 485), environmental concern is “the degree to which people are aware of problems regarding the environment and support efforts to solve them and/or indicate the willingness to contribute personally to their solution.” In other words, responsible individuals who demonstrate environmental concerns will translate them into pro‐environmental behaviors, by avoiding, restricting or abandoning consumption practices that are unsustainable (Lim, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Exploring the synergy between customer home‐based and hotel‐based water consumption and conservation behaviors: An empirical approach

Untaru

Ispas

Han

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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This study aimed to investigate the synergy between customers' home-based and hotel-based water conservation behaviors. A market segmentation approach based on water conservation behaviors in households and environmental concerns was undertaken to identify the distinct types of individual groups and understand the differences between segments in terms of demographic characteristics, attitudes, moral obligation, and intentions toward water conservation behavior in a hotel guestroom. Our empirical findings showed that individuals who save water at home and are more environmentally concerned have stronger attitudes, moral obligation, and water conservation intentions while staying in a hotel. The cluster analysis indicated that three distinct segments existed that are significantly different in terms of gender and age. The findings suggested that targeting the three segments, which included the environmentally concerned and active, the environmentally concerned but inactive, and the environmentally unconcerned and inactive groups, with different communication strategies may prove to be a more efficient approach for hotel managers.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the synergy between customer home‐based and hotel‐based water consumption and conservation behaviors: An empirical approach

Untaru

Ispas

Han

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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“…As part of a broader tourism sector, business travel is achieving growing recognition around the globe (Han et al, 2019). This industry is experiencing the fastest growth in the tourism sector.…”

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Factors affecting conference participation decision-making

Pavluković¹,

Cimbaljević²

2020

J geographical I JC

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Business travel, as the sector with the fastest growth in the tourism industry globally, has received increased attention from both countries and cities, particularly from emerging destinations. In developing economies, business travel, including attending meetings, conferences, incentives and other business events, often plays a leading role in the growth of the wider travel and tourism sector. Therefore, tourism authorities and convention bureaus at the national and city levels have been struggling to attract international conferences and a larger number of participants to conferences. Understanding factors, which appear to be important in the conference participation decision-making process, can help conference organizers and destinations to attract more participants and thus gain more benefit from this growing sector of the tourism industry. Therefore, this study aims to examine factors affecting the conference participation decision-making from the academics' perspective. Furthermore, it investigates how different socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents influence the extracted factors of the conference participation decision-making process. The data was collected from the academics employed at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. The findings reveal six dimensions of conference participation decision-making: destination stimuli, costs and destination accessibility, educational and professional opportunities, intervening opportunities, location factors, and conference factors. The results also show that there are statistically significant differences in some extracted factors between respondents of different gender, age, education level, and academic position, while the frequency of participation in international conferences does not influence the factors. The results could be of interest to all stakeholders in the business travel and tourism industry.

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“…Economic sustainability means profit and cost savings, while the social aspect of sustainability highlights the fair use of human resources and a healthy and safe workplace for all involved, respecting human rights, the inclusion of minorities, respecting diversity, attention to equal opportunities, encouraging the involvement of the local community, sourcing goods and services locally, and employing local people (UNEP, 2012, p.2). Sustainable events are usually organised based on the 4R principles -Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Raise awareness (Lee, 2001). They also include components of education, entertainment and experience.…”

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“…The meetings industry is an important and fast-growing sector of the global tourism industry (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2017;Han et al, 2019;Pavluković and Cimbaljević, 2020). Sometimes referred to as the "MICE" sector or business tourism, it is traditionally composed of four components -association conventions and congresses, corporate meetings, incentives and exhibitions, although this has also been widened to include networking events and hybrid forms of corporate events (Bladen et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%