Abstract
The increasing complexity of tourism and sustainability offers opportunities and challenges among diverse stakeholder perspectives. The need for sustainable and nature-based approaches exists throughout the growing body of literature from among a number of dimensions and measures. One of the overarching goals of the paper is to examine whether tourists will choose a destination or hotel that is actively working to improve the environment while examining how Hawaii’s tourism is nature-based as well as other measures of sustainability while enjoying a slice of paradise in the Hawaiian Islands. This study explores tourism sustainability concerns in Hawaii, such as the influence of the tourist sector on the environment and will address if Hawaii should be recognized as a sustainable tourism destination. A survey instrument was developed where 454 respondents participated. According to the findings of this research, tourists visiting Hawaii support environmentally sustainable tourism practices leading towards a more sustainable tourist destination.
Highlights
Academic Editors: Chiara Giachino, The sustainability of nature-based tourism and tourism to environmentally fragile destinations have been under attack
This study aims to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining U.S visitors’ to Hawaii, perceptions of sustainability, and their willingness to engage in activities that preserve and support the natural environment as well as contribute monetarily to support more sustainable tourism practices in the future
The findings revealed substantial disparities in genders, age groups, and desire to engage in sustainable tourism
Summary
Academic Editors: Chiara Giachino, The sustainability of nature-based tourism and tourism to environmentally fragile destinations have been under attack. “Overtourism”, or too many tourists to a destination has recently gained the attention of societies worldwide [1,2,3,4,5,6], and its origins have been frequently debated in tourism literature since the late 1960s [3,7,8]. Sociopolitical concern over the expansion of tourism to nature-based destinations and its detrimental natural and environmental implications has previously prompted scholarly discussion on tourism’s effects for more than a half-century. Brundtland’s study titled Our. Common Future [9] catapulted the worldwide issue of environmental sustainability to the forefront of sociopolitical debates and agendas in 1987. Sustainable tourism was initially coined by Bramwell and Lance [13,14,15,16]
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