Environmental responsibility: internal motives and customer expectations of a winter sport provider

MacIntosh, Eric; Apostolis, Nic; Walker, Matthew

doi:10.1080/14775085.2013.838145

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“…Some studies observed that because green hotel rooms are often more expensive than non-green hotels, higher income bracket consumers are more likely to stay at green hotels, while consumers have reported being willing to pay a 1.5%-6% premium for green hotels [39,41,53], although the long-term maintenance of such premiums is unknown given the widespread adoption of at least some sustainability measures, e.g., reuse of towels, by lodging properties. Those consumers with a higher knowledge of green hotels and their practices were more likely to stay in them [52], although experiences of sustainable practices may have a positive effect on environmental attitudes and behaviours [37,60]. Nevertheless, there were some papers that observed a gap between consumers' intentions to stay at green hotel and their actions to do so [43].…”

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Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

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Accommodation and lodging are an integral component of the tourism and hospitality industry. Given the sectors' growing contribution to resource consumption and waste, there is a growing body of literature on the attitudes, behaviours and practices of consumers, managers, staff and owners of lodging with respect to sustainability. This paper presents the results of a systematic analysis of articles on attitudes, behaviours and practices of consumers and the provision of accommodation with respect to sustainability. The results indicate that there is a dearth of longitudinal studies on the sustainability of practices and behaviours. There are limitations in geographical coverage as well as methods, with research dominated by convenience sampling approaches. It is concluded that while there appear to be improvements in the potential sustainability of lodging with respect to technological approaches, the lack of systematic long-term studies on behavioural interventions represents a significant challenge to reducing the absolute emissions of the sector as well as reductions in energy and water use and waste production. Given the lack of longitudinal studies, it is not known whether observed behavioural changes are sustained over time.

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Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

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“…Given this information, it would be fair to expect that PAV managers would be motivated to incorporate ESR into their operations. Additionally, MacIntosh, Apostolis, and Walker argue that sport industry consumers are moderately aware of environmental responsibility and the argument is made that due to these expectations of sport consumers, managers ought to be engaged with ESR if they are not already [19].…”

Section: Esr In Pavs and Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kellison and Hong have called for further research in the subject to be conducted [17]. Common sport barriers in the available research have included lack of desire from leadership to act, costs, resource availability, avoiding the appearance of greenwashing, and a lack of knowledge and training on the subject [17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. However, there are limitations in all of these studies that prevent them from accurately addressing the research question posed by the present study.…”

Section: Known Barriers To Esr Adoption In Sport and Entertainmentmentioning

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Barriers to Managing Environmental Sustainability in Public Assembly Venues

Ross

Mercado

2020

Sustainability

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Many sport and entertainment venues are still not major adopters of environmental social responsibility (ESR) despite evidence to suggest their benefit. This qualitative study investigated the major barriers that still prevent ESR adoption in public assembly venues (PAVs) used by sport and entertainment organizations. Using resource-based view (RBV) as a framework for analysis, PAV managers of stadiums, arenas, and performing arts centers were interviewed to collect data. Findings suggest a lack of resources to devote to ESR which displays an overall lack of priority given to ESR adoption and knowledge of ESR by PAV managers. If ESR was considered to offer competitive advantage, it would be given more priority, PAV managers would emphasize more training, and it would therefore receive more resource attention.

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“…Whatever the sport tourism activity, it takes place in an interactive area which can be natural or artificial (created by people). What is more, the natural environment is a key resource when it comes to outdoor sport tourism that is much more dependent on natural environmental conditions [21][22][23][24].…”

Section: Natural Environment and Sport Tourismmentioning

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Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

Perić¹,

Ðurkin²,

Vitezić³

2018

Int. J. SDP

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The connection between tourism development and the natural environment is more intense in outdoor sport tourism than in many other forms of tourism. Natural settings (space), sport activities undertaken and the motivations of the people who participate in them interact to create sport tourism experiences. Tourist safety and security are also proved to be important elements of a tourist experience and it seems that sport tourists may be more sensitive to safety issues than non-sport tourists. This paper therefore aims to analyse the importance of the natural environment and safety and security issues, as constitute event business model elements, in providing sport tourism experiences. The natural setting is also examined as a motivation to participate in sport tourism travel. On the basis of 464 questionnaires gathered from active participants of 16 small-scale sport events in four different outdoor sports, exploratory factor analysis was conducted on motivational statements and revealed a conceptually clear sevenfactor structure. One of them, titled 'Nature', was the second most important motivational dimension for participants but differences between particular sports were considerable. In terms of business model elements included in the survey, participants gave high importance to all elements related to the natural environment and safety and security. Scenic destination, scenic and interesting course, course safety and event safety were the most important elements of event business models for participants in all four sports. Environmental management and proper implementation of security and crowd control measures were also singled out as important event processes. However, results of ANOVA indicate statistically significant differences between the sports in seven out of nine business model elements. These findings shed some light on the managerial aspects of sport tourism practice, helping managers to better serve sports and tourism needs at a particular event and in the destination.

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Environmental responsibility: internal motives and customer expectations of a winter sport provider

Cited by 16 publications

References 37 publications

Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

Accommodation Consumers and Providers’ Attitudes, Behaviours and Practices for Sustainability: A Systematic Review

Barriers to Managing Environmental Sustainability in Public Assembly Venues

Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

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