Abstract
There is a very clear link between tourism and sustainability due to the importance and consequences of the tourism sector in the world economy. Behavioural studies are among the major topics of sustainable tourism research. There are several factors that influence our sustainable behaviour at home and in vacation settings. In general, the main objective of this paper is to examine the personal factors in pro-environmental tourist behaviour from a gender perspective. This study is based on a sample of 347 golf tourists from 16 European countries. The results corroborated the relationships between ecological habits, personal capabilities and environmental attitudes. However, interactions between personal factors were more limited. It was shown that only the interaction between personal capabilities and externally-oriented habits have an influence on environmental attitudes. Also, some gender differences were found.
Highlights
The relationship between tourism and sustainability is a very important issue due to the role of tourism and travel in the global economy [1]
We selected two items for each variable, i.e., internal and external habits. We suggest that these ecological habits at home can be divided into two categories, depending on whether these habitual behaviours have a direct effect inside or outside of the home
If the four latent variables have values greater than 0.7, they adequately explain their blocks of indicators
Summary
The relationship between tourism and sustainability is a very important issue due to the role of tourism and travel in the global economy [1]. Several studies have synthesised the most popular research themes on sustainability and tourism/hospitality [1,2,3,4]. In this vein, Qian, Shen, and Law [4] identified six major themes of sustainable tourism research: climate change, policy instruments, volunteer tourism, poverty reduction, indigenous tourism, and behavioural studies. Qian, Shen, and Law [4] identified six major themes of sustainable tourism research: climate change, policy instruments, volunteer tourism, poverty reduction, indigenous tourism, and behavioural studies Research under the latter topic focuses on examining the environmentally-sustainable behaviour that tourists exhibit while travelling. Several models have been proposed to fulfil this goal [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]
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