scholarly journals The Corporate Responsibility Paradox: A Multi-National Investigation of Business Traveller Attitudes and Their Sustainable Travel Behaviour

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4343
Author(s):  
Philip R. Walsh ◽  
Rachel Dodds ◽  
Julianna Priskin ◽  
Jonathon Day ◽  
Oxana Belozerova
Keyword(s):  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Related Factor ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Business Traveller ◽  
Corporate Travel ◽  
Travel Policy ◽  
Business Travellers

The implementation of sustainability practices in the tourism system requires the participation of a variety of actors. While much research has focused on supply-side issues associated with sustainable tourism, there has been less focus on supply-side issues associated with consumer behaviour and business-related travel. This paper addresses the behaviours of this significant market segment. As behavioural change is seen as a key mechanism for achieving emission reduction, this paper focuses on behaviours of business travels from four countries: Canada, Switzerland, Russia and the U.S., using values-attitudes-behaviour (VAB) theory. We employ Principal Components Analysis to reduce the variables down to four factors and related factor scores. Stepwise multiple linear regression was then used to measure causal associations. The findings show how national cultures, demographics and values influence (although at different levels) the sustainable attitudes and behaviour of business travellers. These results have implications for future corporate travel policy. The recent impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic is also addressed.

Influencing travel behaviour

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-130
Author(s):  
Stewart Barr ◽  
John Preston
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
The Other ◽  
Car Travel

As travel planning’s theoretical underpinnings have broadened from engineering and economics to embrace psychology and sociology, an emphasis has been placed on social marketing and nudge theory. It is argued that this is consistent with a neo-liberal trend towards governing from a distance. Using two case studies, one a qualitative study of reducing short-haul air travel, the other a quantitative study of attempts to reduce local car travel, it is found that actual behaviour change is limited. This seems to arise because behavioural change has been too narrowly defined and overly identified with personal choice.

scholarly journals Hypermobile Business and Leisure Lifestyles, will wellbeing concerns stimulate environmental co benefits

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Business Travel ◽  
Personal Consequences ◽  
High Emission ◽  
Personal Wellbeing

This chapter examines the negative consequences for individuals who undertake leisure-motivated lifestyle mobilities or frequent business travel, and considers these movements in light of their potentially differing impacts on climate change. It explores the question of whether adherents of hypermobile lifestyles will be willing to change their mobility patterns based on negative personal consequences. This is a crucial question to ask as the literature suggests that the hypermobile are largely unwilling to change their travel behaviour for environmental reasons alone. The potential for behaviour change based on concerns over wellbeing is instead examined, and it is concluded that while some forms of leisure-motivated lifestyle mobility may entail less high-emission movement, it is unlikely that concern over lifestyle mobilities’ personal consequences will lead to behavioural change. In contrast, it is within frequent business travel, which tends to require frequent air travel (with its concomitant higher emissions), where the consequences of this hypermobility can entail severe physiological costs, that the most leverage for behavioural change based on concerns over personal wellbeing exists. The chapter concludes that it is business- rather than leisure-motivated hypermobile lifestyles that present the most promising realm for achieving low carbon mobility transitions.

Corporate travel policy

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Rothschild
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Travel ◽  
Travel Policy

scholarly journals Assessing the Willingness to Use Personal e-Transporters (PeTs): Results from a Cross-National Survey in Nine European Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3844
Author(s):  
Tim De De Ceunynck ◽  
Gert Jan Wijlhuizen ◽  
Aslak Fyhri ◽  
Regine Gerike ◽  
Dagmar Köhler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transtheoretical Model ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Environmental Orientation ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Mobility Devices ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Willingness To Use

In the last few years, there has been a strong increase in the interest in and usage of so-called “Personal e-Transporters” (PeTs), also referred to as micro-mobility devices. Empirical research on the usage of PeTs as a transport mode is virtually non-existent, especially within Europe. This paper aims to fill this gap by investigating people’s motivations and barriers to the use of PeTs. To this end, a behavioural survey was conducted in nine European cities. A representative sample of approximately 250 respondents per city was collected, resulting in a dataset, after data cleaning, of 2159 observations. Generally, respondents’ perceptions of PeTs are not (yet) very favourable. Respondents’ perceptions related to cost and safety received the lowest scores. The results from the transtheoretical model of behavioural change show that a variety of factors influence the stage of behavioural change in which the respondents can be situated. These factors include cycling norms, current walking behaviour, walking attitudes, pro-environmental orientation, gender, PeTs possession, cycling obstacles and subscription to a bicycle sharing service. An important strength of this study lies in the international nature and the size of the data collection, ensuring the reliability and transferability of the results to other cities. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first large-scale survey to investigate people’s travel behaviour related to the usage of PeTs and possibly the only large-scale investigation that took place before the deployment of shared e-scooters in many European cities. Furthermore, an explicit link is made with other modes of active transport (walking and cycling).

scholarly journals From mobility patterns to behavioural change: leveraging travel behaviour and personality profiles to nudge for sustainable transportation

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Anagnostopoulou ◽  
Jasna Urbančič ◽  
Efthimios Bothos ◽  
Babis Magoutas ◽  
Luka Bradesko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
Mobility Patterns

scholarly journals Managing Travellers’ Predicted Future Travel Behaviour in a post-COVID-19 World: A Tourism Supplier Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 1048-1062
Author(s):  
Martinette Kruger ◽  
Adam Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Travel And Tourism ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analyses

This research aims to assess the influence of COVID-19 on the travel and tourism industry from a supply-side perspective. More specifically, this research identifies the influential determinants to help manage tourists (main target markets') predicted behaviour and changes in travel patterns due to COVID-19. The exploratory research made use of an online questionnaire. The questionnaire's link was posted on a social media page in 2020, and a convenience snowball sampling method was used to gain access to travel and tourism suppliers. 111 responses were obtained. The multivariate analysis involved exploratory factor analyses (EFA) in identifying the dependent (tourists future travel behaviour) and the independent variables [suppliers’ initiatives to connect with their target market(s) during the pandemic, the predicted management and marketing strategies the travel and tourism industry will adopt after COVID-19 and perceptions regarding the future of the travel and tourism industry (in a post-COVID world)] that were included in regression analyses. A set of linear regression analyses was performed to show whether there is a significant relationship between the factors that may provide additional guidelines for managing travellers’ predicted travel behaviour due to COVID-19. This research provides valuable insights into the strategies the various sectors within the tourism industry implement and plan to adopt to regenerate their tourism operations post COVID-19. Moreover, since this research is primarily focused on the supply-side (tourism suppliers), the sectoral feedback is valuable in streamlining national tourism industry guidelines post-COVID-19.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of the Application of Behavioural Insights of 33 Worldwide Governments on the Landing Pages of their COVID-19 Official Websites and their Impact on the Growth Scale of the Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio ◽  
Raphaela Kitson-Pantano ◽  
David Luu ◽  
Yann Cabon
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
World Population ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
Virus Growth ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 crisis has seen over a third of the world population locked down and this article has sought to understand human behaviour in response to a historical and unprecedented global pandemic. Through the analysis 18 behavioural mechanisms present on the landing pages of the websites of 33 institutional governments from March 1st til May 1st 2020 compared to the WHO data on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths per million for each country, the authors show that a behavioural consensus was observed across all 33 countries and that Individual and Social nudges had no impact. Whilst the decisions in essentially every country on Earth, were taken with the same aim: to limit population movements and social life, two aggravating factors of the spread of the virus, only the environmental nudges effectively helped slow the virus growth scale. The authors explain the rationale behind these results and suggest that people seek information beyond governmental websites that they generally mistrust. They further suggest using Scientists as role models to encourage governmental website's traffic and designing recursive nudges to increase the impact of individual and social interventions. Together with the new phases of the spread of the virus will come new rules and guidance. Public health policies need to address behavioural change of the population on a global scale in a more targeted manner and it is hoped that this paper will provide some insight on how to do so.

scholarly journals The Local Co-Working Hub: A Merging Solution

Urban Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Bahareh Motamed ◽  
Kamyar Shirvanimoghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Current Scenario

The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges and has changed society; some of these changes seem temporary, and others seem permanent. The uncertainty of the duration of this pandemic has introduced changes without the knowledge of how permanent they are, and has raised awareness regarding a need for a shift to a new normal. This new normal will affect different aspects of our life routines and activities, such as travel behaviour, personal hygiene, socializing, and our working environment. In the wake of the global pandemic, which has been followed by lockdowns, curfews, social distancing, and working from home, the future of the office has turned into an open question, as COVID has changed our expectation of how, where, and when people can do their jobs. Big companies like Twitter and Facebook have announced that they are allowing employees to permanently work from home; however, some industry leaders are using the work-from-home experience to reimagine the role of the office in the future. What will the future office look like, and what can we expect of the workplace environment? In this paper, we propose a third solution, which is the merging of the current scenario of the classic office and working from home, which is entitled the ‘local co-working hub’. By studying the challenges and opportunities of each of the current approaches, the potential of the local co-working hub is highlighted.

scholarly journals Who Walks the Walk and Talks the Talk? Understanding What Influences Sustainability Behaviour in Business and Leisure Travellers

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 883
Author(s):  
Rachel Dodds ◽  
Mark Robert Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Travel Behaviour ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Business Travellers

While there is considerable research into what drives tourists to travel sustainably, little has been done to examine business travellers and how they differ from leisure travellers. The purpose of this paper is to fill this gap by looking to understand these differences and what drives them. Specifically, this paper looked to understand the influence that demographics, travel characteristics, and everyday behaviour (pro-ecological actions, frugal consumption patterns, and altruistic behaviours) have on sustainable travel behaviour, and if these influences held true for both business and leisure travellers. To facilitate this investigation, a quantitative study of 869 Canadian travellers in March of 2020 was undertaken. This research found that demographics and travel characteristics to contribute to the prediction of sustainable travel behaviour, but the greatest prediction power came from everyday behaviour. Beyond confirming that everyday behaviour is still the greatest indicator of sustainable travel domestically or abroad, this research found that this influence does not change whether the travel is for business or leisure.

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