Eco‐labels and Schemes: A Requisitely Holistic Proof of Tourism's Social Responsibility?

Lebe, Sonja Sibila; Vrečko, Igor

doi:10.1002/sres.2266

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“…The innovation of planning and management criteria must K 43,3/4 include more social responsibility and requisite holism (Štrukelj et al, 2012;Lebe and Vrečko, 2014;Vrečko and Lebe, 2013). This research addresses the open issue of enterprises' policy/governance innovation towards social responsibility, combining social responsibility, requisitely holistic approach and interdependence.…”

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Holism and social responsibility for tourism enterprise governance

Štrukelj

Šuligoj

2014

Kybernetes

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Purpose -This paper strives for stressing the need for tourism enterprises' (TEs') policy/governance innovation towards more social responsibility for stimulating their competitiveness. The purpose is to develop suggested content-related guidelines for developing social responsible TE policy and to show the practical implementation guidance for implementation of the theoretical research. According to the authors' knowledge, this has not yet been researched in the field of tourism industry (TIN). Design/methodology/approach -The MER model of integral management has been upgraded by Mulej's Dialectical Systems Theory. The authors considered all relevant and only the essential aspects needed for a requisitely holistic approach towards developing the guidelines for innovating the TEs' policy/governance. Findings -Innovation of TEs' policy/governance is possible only with the requisitely holistic and dialectical approach. TEs that will be able to track the suggested guidelines of tourism policy/governance innovation towards holism, systemic thinking, social responsibility, and sustainable tourism are more likely to succeed. Therefore, the stimulating of competitiveness and innovation of the TIN can be achieved through enterprises' policy/governance innovation that the authors suggested. Practical implications -The TEs can establish socially (and otherwise) responsible enterprise policy/governance in accordance with the recommendations developed here. Originality/value -The given suggestions are not known in available literature. The paper exposes the need for holism and consistency of TEs' development potential and interdependently examines the overlaying areas of TEs' policy/governance, social responsibility, and holism/wholeness. The Dialectical Systems Theory systemic approach exposes the need to innovate enterprise policy/governance, if humankind is to survive.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundsmentioning

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Holism and social responsibility for tourism enterprise governance

Štrukelj

Šuligoj

2014

Kybernetes

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“…They simply mistrust these offers [58] and refrain from purchasing. In addition, individuals do not believe in environmental performance of businesses, limiting the trustworthiness of their offers [3].…”

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Fostering Sustainable Travel Behavior: Role of Sustainability Labels and Goal-Directed Behavior Regarding Touristic Services

2017

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Individuals around the globe engage in sustainable consumption in their everyday life, e.g., when it comes to individual transportation. Although tourism behavior contributes to global carbon emissions to a considerable extent, consumers' awareness of sustainability in the tourism industry is still underresearched. Placing eco-labels next to tourist offers on websites might direct consumer's perception towards more sustainable offers. By employing eye-tracking techniques and surveys, this research aimed at linking information about sustainable tourist offers, perception of eco-labels and subsequent perception and preferences of tourism services. In Study 1, eight existing hotel offers with sustainability certification (four different labels) were selected and their websites presented to 48 participants (four websites each), whose eye movements were tracked. After looking at each website, they rated the overall appearance of the website. Based on the results, in the second study, participants' (n = 642) awareness of labels, their values and attitudes regarding sustainable behavior were found to influence their preference for certified tour operators. In addition, individuals' ideas of their perfect holidays were captured to allow a better understanding of their motivation. This research proposes implementing appropriate sustainable labeling in the tourism industry to increase awareness about sustainability among travelers and subsequently increase sustainable travel behavior.

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“…Na última coluna foram agrupados os estudos relacionados a Tecnologias da Informação -primeiro subgrupo (GHAPANCHI, 2015;PADE-KHENE;MALLINSON;SEWRY, 2011); Parcerias Público-Privadas -segundo subgrupo (DE LOS RIOS-CARMENADO; ORTUNO; RIVERA, 2016;KAKABADSE;KAKABADSE;SUMMERS, 2007). E, também, artigos que, segundo a opinião das autoras, não se enquadraram nas categorias definidas, como turismo e rotulagem ambiental (LEBE; VRECKO, 2015), avaliação de padrões (PETTER; KHAZANCHI; MURPHY, 2010) e ergonomia (VIDAL et al, 2012) -terceiro subgrupo.…”

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Panorama Da Sustentabilidade Em Gestão De Projetos

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Carvalho²

2017

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RESUMO INTRODUÇÃONas últimas décadas, a questão ambiental tem ganhado cada vez mais espaço em debates, normas e padrões internacionais, o que reflete uma mudança na legislação interna de muitos países e no posicionamento de organizações. As atividades humanas se adaptaram a hábitos mais sustentáveis, a partir de lições aprendidas com o ecossistema natural (YANG; ZOU, 2014). Estados, empresas e diversos setores da sociedade percebem a gravidade dos impactos causados pelas atividades humanas sobre o meio ambiente, e a necessidade de se promoverem mudanças no sentido de reduzir a degradação ambiental.A definição de sustentabilidade apresentada por Elkington (1998) considera as dimensões sociais, ambientais e econômicas como pilares, o tripé conhecido como Tripple Bottom Line. Assim, Carvalho e Rabechini Jr. (2011) argumentam a necessidade de essas dimensões serem inseridas e trabalhadas no ofício da gestão de projetos, em direção à sustentabilidade empresarial. Dessa forma, a gestão de projetos pode ser uma maneira de influenciar positivamente a integração de dimensões de sustentabilidade em projetos (BOCCHINI et al., 2014).

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Eco‐labels and Schemes: A Requisitely Holistic Proof of Tourism's Social Responsibility?

Cited by 21 publications

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Holism and social responsibility for tourism enterprise governance

Holism and social responsibility for tourism enterprise governance

Fostering Sustainable Travel Behavior: Role of Sustainability Labels and Goal-Directed Behavior Regarding Touristic Services

Panorama Da Sustentabilidade Em Gestão De Projetos

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