Relationships between place attachment, place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviour in an Australian national park

Ramkissoon, Haywantee; Smith, Liam David Graham; Weiler, Betty

doi:10.1080/09669582.2012.708042

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“…Yet nuanced analysis indicates that differences exist among these predictors: Those tourists, who believe that climate change is currently happening (i.e., Occurrence), are most likely to acknowledge energy saving and carbon reduction behavior norm and thus adopt related behaviors; while the belief that climate change is caused by humans (i.e., Anthropogenic Causation) has a very limited impact on perceived contribution of tourism to climate change, it can indirectly affect energy saving and carbon reduction behavior intention in tourism via norm; in general, while tourists are aware of climate change, there is limited awareness of tourism's contribution to climate change, which can hinder the adoption of energy saving and carbon reduction behavior in tourism as it positively impacts on both the norm and intention. Previous studies on pro-environment/destination behavior issues in tourism are often too focused on the tourism context itself, such as impacts/problems of tourism [15,56] or tourism experience [75][76][77], to explore the impacts of general environmental awareness on such behaviors. This study thus helps fill such a gap by linking perception of climate change in a global context to energy saving and carbon reduction behavior in tourism.…”

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Chinese Tourists’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Mitigation Behavior: An Application of Norm Activation Theory

Qiao

Gao

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:It is well recognized that tourism development is a prominent contributor to climate change, but is also a "victim" of climate change. Therefore, to mitigate climate change is of great importance for the sustainability of tourism. Yet extant studies regarding tourism and climate change tend to be dominated by a supply-side stance, albeit the core role of the tourist in the tourism industry. While researchers are increasingly adopting a tourist perspective, few seek to understand the linkage between climate change and tourists' specific mitigation behaviors in a tourism context; this is especially so in China. This study investigates the impact of Chinese tourists' perceptions of climate change on their mitigation behaviors based on norm activation theory. Drawing on 557 self-administrated questionnaires collected in China, it finds that tourists' perceptions of climate change and perceived contribution of tourism to climate change both positively affect energy saving and carbon reduction behavior in tourism. Yet, compared with perceived contribution of tourism to climate change, tourists' perceptions of climate change are found to be a much stronger predictor for energy saving and carbon reduction behavior. Therefore, it suggests that tourists' perceptions of climate change in a general context is more strongly related to climate change mitigation behavior in tourism, calling for attention to go beyond the tourism context to alleviate the negative impacts of tourism on climate change.

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Chinese Tourists’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Mitigation Behavior: An Application of Norm Activation Theory

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2017

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“…The question whether place attachment is best described by two, or more, components is still open [97]. In tourism, place attachment is also often described as "destination attachment" [94,96] and linked to visitors' loyalty to places [96], behavioural intentions [25] and pro-environmental behaviour [50,54,55]. In particular, Louriero [25] demonstrates a significant relationship between the tourism experience, place attachment, recommendation and tourists' intention to return in the context of rural areas.…”

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“…Pro-environmental behaviour includes actions aimed at protecting the local environment and at facing environmental issues, such as giving time or money to site-specific best practices, or voluntarily visiting a destination less frequently or not at all when the area is recovering from environmental damage [53][54][55]. Environmentally friendly behaviour is related to personal attributes, environmental knowledge, and perception of environmental health.…”

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“…The constructs and items for measuring the heritage experience dimensions-learning, hedonics, escape and service quality will be adopted from Calver and Page [86], Chen and Chen [88], Chen et al [94] and McIntosh [21]. Place attachment will be measured based on Budruk et al [68], Ramkissoon et al [54], and Ramkissoon and Mavondo [4]. For the sustainable heritage behaviour construct, a new scale will be developed encompassing general as well as site-specific dimensions.…”

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Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

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Sustainable tourism research has attracted wide interest from scholars and practitioners. While several heritage sites are mandated to provide optimum visitor satisfaction with increasing competition in the market, managers of heritage sites face growing challenges in striking a balance between consumption and conservation. This calls for promoting more sustainable behaviours among consumers of heritage. This study proposes a conceptualization of sustainable behaviour for heritage consumers. Using the attitude-behaviour relationship underpinned by the Theory of Reasoned Action, it develops and proposes a conceptual framework that integrates visitors' heritage experiences, their attachment to heritage sites, and their general and site-specific sustainable heritage behaviour and presents their interrelationships as proposed hypotheses. Theoretical contributions and practical implications for heritage site managers are discussed.

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“…It has been suggested that protected areas are very valuable settings in the study of attitudes towards the environment and conservation (Ramkissoon, Smith, & Weiler, 2013;Xu & Fox, 2014). Evident from the literature review, the communities are usually facing economic problems in remote areas although they have very rich natural attractions.…”

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Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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In many developing countries, there are protected areas with very strong natural resources and tourism development potential but in a poor conservation condition. Many of these areas are at pre or early stages of tourism development. These protected areas face problems including shortages of financial resources and park staff, and difficulty in enforcing conservation laws. Strict conservation laws have limited local residents' access to the natural resources and created problems such as increased poaching, habitat destruction and local people-park conflicts. This study adopts a case study approach, choosing two villages in rural Iran that are located near protected areas, one with no tourism and one at the early stage of tourism. Both these villages are experiencing challenges in striving for environmental protection and community development in a remote area of the country.There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of local resident attitudes and local people-park relationship roles in achieving both conservation goals and sustainable tourism development in and around protected areas. It is also suggested that incentives from tourism have a pivotal role in positively affecting local resident attitudes to the environment and consequently their behaviour.However, a challenge in the tourism literature is that most of the studies on local resident attitudes to the environment were conducted at a certain stage of development and their results cannot be applied to other stages. Although the literature indicates that tourism revenues improve local resident attitudes towards the environment and conservation, with no study comparing attitudes before and after tourism development, it is unclear whether these positive attitudes are due to tourism benefits or whether the local resident attitudes were positive even before tourism development.It is also widely discussed and hypothesised in the tourism literature that people with positive environmental attitudes are more likely to support environmental conservation activities.Local resident attitudes towards conservation have generally been studied as a single variable in the tourism literature. Importantly the environmental literature suggests that local resident attitudes towards environmental conservation and their attitudes towards protected area management might be different and a distinction has been made in studying these attitudes as separate variables.Consequently, this study aims to investigate the differences between local resident attitudes towards the environment, protected area management (PAM) and tourism at two early stages of tourism development by comparing attitudes in a community that has no prior experience of tourism and a community at an early stage of tourism development. This involved developing six ii hypotheses to assess the association between the three variables within and across a non-tourism setting and a setting with some tourism development in the two case study villages.A survey instrument was designed to mea...

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Relationships between place attachment, place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviour in an Australian national park

Cited by 280 publications

References 81 publications

Chinese Tourists’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Mitigation Behavior: An Application of Norm Activation Theory

Chinese Tourists’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Mitigation Behavior: An Application of Norm Activation Theory

Visitors’ Experience, Place Attachment and Sustainable Behaviour at Cultural Heritage Sites: A Conceptual Framework

Environmental protection and local resident attitudes at early stages of tourism development

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