Adam C. Landona*, Kyle M. Woosnamb & B. Bynum Boleyba Illinois Natural History Survey, University of at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USAb Warnell School Forestry and Resources, Georgia, Athens, GA, USAAdam Landon is a postdoctoral research associate with the Survey Urbana-Champaign. His interests are primarily related to human dimensions natural resources, including environmental conservation psychology.Kyle Woosnam an professor within Resource Recreation Tourism program Georgia. He...

While the tourism industry and environmentalists may traditionally be strange bedfellows, increasing conversion of land away from its natural state into unsustainable uses result in two becoming allies fight to protect remaining landscapes. This partnership is presented around a proposed sustainable symbiotic relationship between resource conservation competitiveness ecotourism destinations. Under this relationship, destinations benefit form enhanced protection quality resources while...

Despite empowerment being a crucial component of sustainable tourism, few scholars have quantitatively operationalized and looked at how it applies to rural societies within the post-communist European Union (EU) member states. Knowing high priority development goals EU, empowering residents these has become pertinent issue especially where those appear more reluctant engaging in democratic ways decision-making. In response this gap, study tests cross-cultural validity Resident Empowerment...

With resident empowerment widely recognized as a prerequisite for sustainable tourism development, this study tested how residents' perceived knowledge of affects their perceptions psychological, social, and political through tourism, these, in turn, lead to action regarding using Rocha's (1997 Rocha, E. M. (1997). A ladder empowerment. Journal Planning Education Research, 17(1), 31–44. doi:10.1177/0739456X9701700104[Crossref], [Web Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) theory Rocha conceptualized...

Despite an influx of ecotourism research since the term was first coined, it is still not entirely clear why tourists choose over other tourism experiences. While most previous literature assumes that preferred by travelers for moral reasons, emerging evidence suggests opportunities to project one's social status are increasingly salient factors in decision-making about travel. This article compares relative influence two possible predictors intention: environmental values (measured through...

While gender equality and empowerment are core components of sustainable tourism, most the literature has approached concepts from qualitative perspectives, thus limiting ability to empirically test for discrepancies between men women. With this gap in mind, study sought widely held notion that exist women tourism development. Discrepancies psychological, social political were tested using 12-item Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale (RETS). The RETS was administered across five sample...

This study developed a new version of the Resident Empowerment through Tourism Scale - RETS 2.0 by integrating two dimensions empowerment – economic and environmental that original left off. The also abbreviates to three items per construct, reducing response burden, opening up space for measuring different antecedents outcomes empowerment. was empirically tested validated in small island destinations Boa Vista Sal, Cape Verde following Churchill's (1979) Rossiter's (2002) three-stage...

AbstractTransformative learning (TL) is an important component of sustainable volunteer tourism experiences, potentially reducing unsustainable outcomes, and educating enlightening volunteers. This paper reviews theories issues about TL in tourism, analyzes data from 1008 useable responses to online survey potential tourists. A factor–cluster analysis tourists' motivations identified key tourist segments assessed differences expectations across each segment. Altruism remains the primary...

As the relationship between Cuba and United States evolves, many Americans are entertaining idea of travel to Cuba. This study used Theory Planned Behavior (TPB) examine predictors US residents’ intentions across three time horizons: 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. TPB constructs were administered a cross-sectional panel residents. Results varied by horizon, with negative attitudes toward having positive significant influence on their intention visit within one year. finding suggests that some...

For tourism to be entirely sustainable, one cannot travel. This is impossible. paradox particularly evident within last chance (LCT), where tourists, seeking experiences with vanishing animals and land/seascapes, can accelerate the decline of those very attractions. Though recent studies hint that highest intentions visit LCT destinations are also some most concerned climate change, no study has assessed psychological drivers may help explain why individuals increasingly engaging in this...

Researchers have recently begun to explore residents’ perceptions of short-term vacation rental (STVR) from both qualitative and quantitative approaches, but there is still a need for strong theoretical underpinnings support this growing body research. This study addresses gap through applying perspective that combines Social Exchange Theory Weber’s Formal Substantive Rationality assess attitudes toward STVRs in the US city Savannah, Georgia. Results 384 resident surveys revealed was...

Geotourism is tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of a place, including its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and well-being residents. The purpose this study was to develop test scale measuring geotraveler tendencies (GTS). GTS consists 35 items across eight subscales both attitudes behaviors travelers. Confirmatory factor analysis tested each for construct validity, convergent discriminant nomological demonstrated all scales were valid reliable measures...

Abstract The growing importance of sustainability to the hospitality and tourism industry has resulted in an increased pedagogical discussion pertaining how incorporate into undergraduate curriculum. previous largely focused on need teach within curriculum (Deale et al., 2009), determining stakeholders' attitudes towards teaching (Barber 2011). Despite strong interest sustainability, Deale al. (2009) article reveals that is rarely taught This study moves away from should be a best suggests...

This study advances the discussion of sustainability within hospitality literature through introduction concept triple bottom line (TBL) and potential synergistic benefits to competitiveness firms can achieve from practicing it. TBL transitions a firm’s attention away solely focusing on short-term profits concentration long-term environmental, social, economic performance. The suggests that this transition result in “competitive synergy” for firms. term is used describe phenomenon when...

At the core of resident attitude literature is general understanding that more residents economically benefit from tourism, they support tourism. While a central tenet, previous research has measured perceptions benefiting tourism somewhat haphazardly, using four disparate directions without common cross-culturally reliable and valid scale. To bring clarity to literature, this study develops presents Economic Benefit Tourism Scale as measure for embrace. The scale’s development follows...