Environmental attitude by trip and visitor characteristics

Uysal, Muzaffer; Jurowski, Claudia; Noe, Francis P.; McDonald, Cary

doi:10.1016/0261-5177(94)90046-9

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“…Recent reviews also show that females have more proenvironment attitudes than males (Kalof et al, 2002), with a few inconsistent results (Scott & Willits, 1994). In most other studies, pro-environment attitudes are negatively correlated with age and are positively correlated with education (Arcury, 1990;Scott & Willits, 1994;Van Liere & Dunlap, 1980), but a few studies show no correlation with education (Uysal et al, 1994), as was found here.…”

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A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

Hvenegaard

2007

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Educat

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Universities often lack a detailed understanding of the environmental backgrounds of their students. One way to improve understanding is through segmentation, which breaks down a population into groups of people with similar characteristics. This study aims to use segmentation to determine groups within the student population, based on environmental attitudes, and compare these groups in terms of environmental knowledge, activities, information sources and demographic characteristics. This study of undergraduate students identified six groups, with varying levels of support for the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). Factor scores varied among groups with similar NEP scores. Student groups with high NEP scores used more information sources, participated in more environment-friendly activities and were more likely to be female than those with low scores. Environmental knowledge using four indicators was not significantly correlated to attitude groups. The most used information sources were from various electronic and print media.

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A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

Hvenegaard

2007

International Research in Geographical and Environmental Educat

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“…Even in studies which investigated the same personal characteristics, findings are frequently contradictory. Despite, or maybe because of, the heterogeneity of approaches and conclusions, the studies which empirically profiled ecotourists (Crossley & Lee, 1994;Khan, 2003;Wight, 1996a & b;Blamey & Braithwaite, 1997;Eagles, 1992;Eagles & Cascagnette, 1995;Kretchman & Eagles, 1990;Hvengaard & Dearden, 1998;Kerstetter et al, 2004;Uysal et al, 1994;Weaver & Lawton, 2002) are used as the basis for generating hypotheses about tourists who behave in an environmentally friendly manner. Furthermore, findings from related areas of environmental studies (Berenguer, Corraliza & Martin, 2005;Kaiser & Shimoda, 1999;Kals, Schumacher & Montada, 1999;Carrus, Bonaiuto & Bonnes, 2005;Clark, Kotchen & Moore, 2003) inform hypothesis generation for the present study.…”

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“…Reviewing the empirical studies conducted by Ballantine and Eagles (1994), Blamey and Braithwaite (1997), Bottrill and Pearce (1995), Crossley and Lee (1994), Eagles (1992), Eagles and Cascagnette (1995), Hong, Kim and Kim (2003), Hvengaard andDearden (1998), Juric, Cornwell andMather (2002), Kerstetter, Hou, and Lin (2004), Khan (2003), Kretchmann and Eagles (1990), Meric and Hunt (1998), Palacio and McCool (1997), Pennington-Gray and Kerstetter (2002), Ryan, Hughes and Chirgwin (2000), Tao, Eagles and Smith (2004), Uysal, Jurowski, Noe & McDonald (1994), Weaver and Lawton (2002), and Wight (1996a & b) results in a large number of socio-demographic and psychographic variables of potential value. Interestingly, only one single characteristic -a higher level of education -has been included in most of these studies and has consistently led to the same results.…”

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“…Operationalizations range from distributing surveys through ecotourism operators (Crossley & Lee, 1994;Khan, 2003;Wight, 1996a & b), filtering respondents on the basis of their intention to undertake a trip to increase understanding and appreciation of nature (Blamey & Braithwaite, 1997), surveying members of organizations with pro-environmental missions (Eagles, 1992;Eagles & Cascagnette, 1995;Kretchman & Eagles, 1990), to surveying visitors to natural tourism attractions, such as a Thai national park (Hvengaard & Dearden, 1998), a coastal wetland area in Taiwan (Kerstetter et al, 2004), a conservation area in Australia (Ryan et al, 2000), a US national park (Uysal, et al, 1994), and ecolodges in Australia (Weaver & Lawton, 2002). Despite the heterogeneity of study settings and the resulting heterogeneity of results, the review of the ecotourism / environmentally sustainable literature suggests that the following hypotheses have to be empirically tested in the general tourism setting for tourists who behave in an environmentally friendly manner (as opposed to limiting such investigations to segments of the tourism population): they are characterized by a more proenvironmental attitude, a higher level of expressed environmental concern, higher levels of education, higher income levels, a distinct age profile and a distinct gender profile.…”

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Identifying tourists with smaller environmental footprints

Dolničar

2010

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper identifies which information about tourists serves as the best predictor of their pro-environmental behavior at home and on vacation. If a small set of predictors can be identified, the tourism industry would be able to use them to focus attention on attracting tourists with smaller environmental footprints. Results from a survey asking respondents about pro-environmental behavior in their role as residents and tourists indicate that environmental concern, altruism, feeling morally obliged to behave environmentally friendly, age and regional identity are the best predictors of the segment of people who behave in an environmentally friendly way at home. Income levels and moral obligation best predict membership of the segment of environmentally friendly tourists. The two segments overlap, differences between them are due to the fact that, at home, people can create the infrastructure they require to behave environmentally friendly. On vacation they need to adjust to the infrastructure provided, which can act as a barrier to pro-environmental behavior. Results have direct practical implications, highlighting the value of demand-side approaches to environmentally sustainable tourism for protected areas, both urban and rural, such as focusing on those market segments that have the highest intrinsic inclination to protect the environment.

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“…Rather, the key features of ecotourism are that ecotourists want to learn about the environment, spend their vacation at a natural attraction (rather than a constructed one) and wish to experience nature. Ecotourists have been profiled frequently in the past (Ballantine & Eagles, 1994;Blamey & Braithwaite, 1997;Diamantis, 1998;Fairweather, Maslin & Simmons, 2005;Hvengaard & Dearden, 1998;Juric, Cornwell & Mather, 2002;Kerstetter, Hou & Lin, 2004;Meric & Hunt, 1998;Uysal et al, 1994;Weaver & Lawton, 2002;Wight, 1996a and b;Wurzinger & Johansson, 2006). Most profiles indicate that ecotourists are concerned about the environment and try to conserve nature.…”

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Short-haul city travel is truly environmentally sustainable

2010

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With rising interest in and concern about climate change and environmental sustainability, and the significance of the tourism industry worldwide, the impact of tourism-related activities and behaviors on the environment has become a key area of research. In particular, transport related to tourism has come under scrutiny for its contribution to the ecological footprint of tourism of a destination, mostly accounted for by the dominance of air travel. This study contributes to research in this area by identifying the types of travel situations in which tourists make environmentally friendly choices about travel modes and, consequently, which types of tourism destinations should seek to develop and promote in order to minimize the environmental impact of the tourist sector on both an individual destination and global scale. Short haul city travel is truly environmentally sustainable AbstractWith rising interest in and concern about climate change and environmental sustainability, and the significance of the tourism industry worldwide, the impact of tourism-related activities and behaviors on the environment has become a key area of research. In particular, transport related to tourism has come under scrutiny for its contribution to the ecological footprint of tourism of a destination, mostly accounted for by the dominance of air travel. This study contributes to research in this area by identifying the types of travel situations in which tourists make environmentally friendly choices about travel modes and, consequently, which types of tourism destinations should seek to develop and promote in order to minimize the environmental impact of the tourist sector on both an individual destination and global scale.

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Environmental attitude by trip and visitor characteristics

Cited by 112 publications

References 30 publications

A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

A Novel Approach to Deepen Understanding of Undergraduates' Environmental Backgrounds

Identifying tourists with smaller environmental footprints

Short-haul city travel is truly environmentally sustainable

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