How do residents respond to negative environmental impacts from tourism? The role of community participation in empowering residents' environmentally responsible behavior

Abstract

This study examined a model linking perceived negative environmental impacts, support for tourism development, environmentally responsible behavior (ERB), and community participation in the ecotourism setting. The findings reveal that perceived negative environmental impacts restrained residents' ERB. This relationship was mitigated by the moderation of community participation such that the suppression effect of perceived negative environmental impacts on ERB became less strong as community participation increased. Moreover, support for tourism development mediated the moderating effect. This study provides novel insights on understanding residents' attitudes and behaviors towards environmental impacts and identifying the role of community participation in empowering residents' ERB. Managerial implications and future research directions are discussed.

Tourism Actors’ Responsible Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Thus, ERB studies, borrowing from tourists’ ERB studies, were conducted (i.e. Cheng et al, 2019; Confente & Scarpi, 2021; Liu et al, 2021; Safshekan et al, 2020; Xu & Hu, 2021). The studies focus, in contrast to the tourist ERB studies, on community aspects with community attachment, community engagement, or resident participation (i.e.…”

“…Residents' responsible behavior studies largely focus on the social exchange theory (Xu & Hu, 2021) and the attitudebehavior theory (Safshekan et al, 2020), which have also been approached for tourists' responsible behavior studies (Lin & Lee, 2020). Social exchange theory assumes that attitudes and behaviors are based on the perception of the costs and benefits of exchanges (Ap, 1992), suggesting that residents intend to maximize tourism benefits and minimize tourism's negative impacts (Xu & Hu, 2021). Attitudebehavior theory corresponds to the theory of planned behavior, by assuming that attitude predicts behaviors and individuals act in a particular way due to their particular attitude towards the intended action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1977).…”

Research on the Influencing Factors of Sustainable Development of Smart Community

“…When good neighborhood relationship and higher participation in uence on the sustainable development of the community, this is because when people think it is better with the surrounding neighborhood residents, especially through to communicate with your neighbors to discuss [29], mutual trust, and to participate in the activities of community organization of neighborhood, which will improve the residents' willingness to participate in cognitive and make the residents to participate in the activities of community construction, and the transaction is own duty. To some extent, the initiative of residents to participate in smart community will be improved [30,31], and the construction of smart community service system will be promoted to promote the sustainable development of smart community.…”

Emotional Solidarity and Co-creation of Experience as Determinants of Environmentally Responsible Behavior: A Stimulus-Organism-Response Theory Perspective

“…To decrease the adverse impacts of tourism on the environment, research on successful interventions to promote tourists’ ERB has significantly spread in the field (Juvan & Dolnicar, 2016). The dominant theories of explaining ERB in tourism and hospitality research are the theory of planned behavior (Han, 2015; Liu et al, 2020; Navratil et al, 2019; Toni et al, 2018; Wang, 2016), social exchange theory (Xu & Hu, 2021), and value-belief-norm theory (Landon et al, 2018). Following these theoretical frameworks, most of the existing literature focused on norms, values (Fenitra et al, 2022; Landon et al, 2018; Liu et al, 2020), visitor engagement (Zhou et al, 2020), environmental education (Mensah, 2012; Meschini et al, 2021), and perceived tourism impacts (Xu & Hu, 2021) as antecedents of tourists’ ERB, ignoring tourists’ psychological and emotional factors.…”

“…The dominant theories of explaining ERB in tourism and hospitality research are the theory of planned behavior (Han, 2015; Liu et al, 2020; Navratil et al, 2019; Toni et al, 2018; Wang, 2016), social exchange theory (Xu & Hu, 2021), and value-belief-norm theory (Landon et al, 2018). Following these theoretical frameworks, most of the existing literature focused on norms, values (Fenitra et al, 2022; Landon et al, 2018; Liu et al, 2020), visitor engagement (Zhou et al, 2020), environmental education (Mensah, 2012; Meschini et al, 2021), and perceived tourism impacts (Xu & Hu, 2021) as antecedents of tourists’ ERB, ignoring tourists’ psychological and emotional factors. According to these studies, the more positive tourists’ attitudes are regarding the environment, the more likely they are to engage in ERB while visiting the destination.…”