scholarly journals The Effect of Tourism Experience on Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior at Cultural Heritage Sites: The Mediating Role of Cultural Attachment

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 565
Author(s):  
Zhenfeng Cheng ◽  
Xin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Cultural Experiences

With the rapid development of tourism and the explosive growth of tourist arrivals, the destructive effects of tourist activities on the ecological environment of tourist destinations are becoming increasingly severe, seriously restricting the sustainable development of these destinations. As one of the most important types of current tourist destinations, cultural heritage sites are in urgent need of a well-protected ecological environment. Environmental protection has already become an important task for their sustainable development. The behavior of tourists during visits, which plays a central role in tourist activities, has gradually become a key factor affecting the environment of tourist destinations. Therefore, approaches to effectively identify the mechanisms underpinning tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior have become a focus of both theoretical and practical domains. Based on a stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) theoretical framework, our study established a mediation model based on cultural attachments, and explored the mechanisms affecting how cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences influence tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. The experience-attachment-behavior transmission mechanism was also considered. A structural equation model was applied to empirically test the 588 pieces of data collected from tourists involved in heritage tourism. The test results show that the cognitive, emotional, and cultural experiences delivered from tourist destinations of cultural heritage, positively affected tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Cultural attachment plays a partially mediating role between cognitive, emotional, cultural experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. These study results not only support theoretical research on the relationship between tourism experiences and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior, but also indicate the effective driving pathways of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior at the practical level. As such, this research provides both theoretical reference and practical guidance for the sustainable development of tourist destinations with diverse cultural heritages.

scholarly journals Determinants and Mechanisms of Tourists’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior: Applying and Extending the Value-Identity-Personal Norm Model in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongxun Xu ◽  
Xuechao Wei ◽  
Shih-Chih Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Personal Norm ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
The Impact

It is well recognized that tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior is a prominent contributor to the sustainable development of tourist destinations. Based on the original Value-Identity-Personal norm (VIP) model and self-efficacy theory, this study proposes an extended VIP model for exploring the generalized determinants of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior and investigating the impact mechanism of this behavior in China. A total number of 435 self-reported questionnaires were collected on a professional online survey platform. Our research results indicated that the extended VIP model could significantly and validly explain tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Specifically, biospheric values have an indirect but rooted effect on tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. Furthermore, two indirect paths play the same mediational role between biospheric values and tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior. The findings expand the application field of the VIP model, contribute to a better understanding for academic researchers of tourists’ environmentally responsible behavior and shed light on managerial implications for practitioners in the sustainable development of tourist destinations.

scholarly journals CAN SOCIAL MEDIA BE A TOOL FOR INCREASING TOURISTS’ ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR?

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 1211-1222
Author(s):  
Enamul HAQUE ◽  
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Tinikan SUNGSUWAN ◽  
Sarunya SANGLIMSUWAN ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

For the sustainable development of a tourism destination, environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) is a vital issue. This study developed an implicated model based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework showing the usages of social media by tourists regarded as a stimulus; environmental awareness, and place attachment generated from using social media regarded as an organism; and tourists' ERB thereby bringing behavioral intension regarded as responses. The integrated tourists' ERB model was experimentally tested using survey data from 467 Bangladeshi tourists by SEM-based methodology. The study found that social media has a beneficial effect on environmental awareness and place attachment, negatively impacting ERB. Furthermore, environmental awareness and place attachment has a favorable impact on ERB. This article discusses theoretical discoveries as well as practical consequences.

scholarly journals Place Attachment and Environmentally Responsible Behavior: The Mediating Role of Destination Psychological Ownership

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6809
Author(s):  
Hui-Ming Kuo ◽  
Jung-Yao Su ◽  
Cheng-Hua Wang ◽  
Pinyapat Kiatsakared ◽  
Kuan-Yu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Place Attachment ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Psychological Ownership ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Place Dependence ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed to explore the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior, and to verify the mediating role of destination psychological ownership in the above relationship. We surveyed scuba divers in Taiwan as the research subjects and obtained 361 valid questionnaires. After conducting a literature review and examining related theories, we proposed a theoretical model and used the structural equation model for analysis. The results showed that the overall model fitted well, place dependence directly affected place identity, and place dependence and place identity both positively and directly influenced environmentally responsible behavior. Furthermore, the testing showed that destination psychological ownership could play a mediating role on the relationship between place attachment and environmentally responsible behavior.

scholarly journals Visitor Engagement, Relationship Quality, and Environmentally Responsible Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Zhou ◽  
Chengcai Tang ◽  
Xingyang Lv ◽  
Bo Xing
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Moderating Role

Visitor environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) is helpful for promoting the sustainable development of tourist destinations. Existing studies on visitor ERB tend to either focus on restraining visitors’ environmental misconducts or rely on visitors’ psychological factors. Based on the theory of engagement, this paper constructs a theoretical model to explain visitors’ self-conscious ERB. Visitor engagement with the destination is investigated as an independent variable which leads to the improvement of relationship quality and visitor ERB. Relationship quality is explored to mediate the impact of visitor engagement on ERB. In addition, the moderating role of environmental clue on the tested relationships is also examined. This study adopts partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to investigate a total of 410 valid questionnaires. The results show that (1) visitor engagement with the destination positively affects visitor ERB; (2) relationship quality mediates the impact of visitor engagement on visitor ERB; (3) environmental clue plays a significant moderating role in the effects of engagement and relationship quality on visitor ERB. The study extends theoretical perspectives on visitor ERB and customer engagement, and provides managerially practical value to better understand visitors’ self-conscious ERB.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PROMOSI WISATA RELIGI MAKAM SYEKH SURGI MUFTI

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (34) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Devi Noviyanti
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The South ◽  
Business Opportunity ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The Republic

Indonesia is a pluralistic country. This plurality produces Indonesia rich in various aspects, such as ethnicity, language, culture and religion so that it supports the fields for sustainable development. South Kalimantan, which is one of the provinces in Indonesia, has a great potential to be developed into an attractive business opportunity because of the number of tourist objects that can be visited by tourists, both domestic and foreign. South Kalimantan offers typical local cultural characters such as the typical Banjar traditional house, Agung Amuntai Temple, Floating Market, typical Banjar fabric craftsmen village, Sasirangan and others. In addition to offering natural and cultural attractions. South Kalimantan is also famous for its religious tourism where one is expected to be the tomb of the famous Ulama which is visited by pilgrims, namely the dome of Surgi Mufti KH. Jamaluddin who also came from a great ulama from South Kalimantan, Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad Al-Banjari. The Surgi Mufti Dome is also one of the pilgrimage attractions designated as cultural heritage sites approved by the Republic of Indonesia Law Number 11 of 2010. The Dome of the Surgi Mufti is located on Jalan Mesjid Jami, Surgi Mufti Village, North Banjarmasin District, Banjarmasin City. In order to develop tourism objects in the South Kalimantan region, one of them is the Tomb of Sheikh Surgi Mufti, so tourism promotion or communication efforts are needed as a strategy that can provide information on tourist destinations in detail and clearly

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