Understanding the Impact of Environmental Education on Tourists’ Future Visit Intentions to Leisure Farms in Mountain Regions

Leelapattana, Winitra; Hsu, Shih-Yun; Thongma, Weerapon; Chen, Chun; Chiang, Fu-Mei

doi:10.3390/su11061567

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“…This finding does not confirm previous studies [13,76], which found that customers' lack of awareness related to environmental practices makes it necessary to invest more in environmental education, thus showing how the environment can be helped through independent gestures. Recent research indicated that devoting in environmental education can be beneficial for agritourism businesses by effectively increasing the pool of their potential customers, who are more willing to revisit and purchase at a premium price [120]. Therefore, a major shift in thinking is required for ATBHs owner-managers.…”

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“…Furthermore, they should focus on raising tourists' awareness regarding the importance of saving water and energy within the rural destination they are visiting and within the unit they are accommodated in. Such accommodation units might collaborate with government agencies and nonprofit organizations that aim for environmental protection in order to promote environmental education among visitors [120]. Second, these units may implement various environmental education methods such as advertising the environmental commitment in their facilities and inviting guests to participate in environmentally-friendly activities, ecological corners with brochures or multimedia presentations, and seminars on environmental themes.…”

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Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

2019

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Small accommodation businesses such as agritourism boarding houses (ATBHs) provide a large share of accommodating capacity in certain rural destinations. Despite their small accommodation capacity, ATBHs consume substantial quantities of water and energy; this consumption implies high environmental costs. The present study aims to explore opinions of ATBH owner-managers regarding water and energy consumption in their businesses, what motivates them to adopt environmental practices, and the specific saving measures used within the tourist accommodation units they manage. A qualitative research was conducted, using semi-structured interviews among 12 Romanian ATBH owner-managers. Data analysis revealed that the interviewed owner-managers understand the importance of natural resource conservation in tourist destinations but they are not willing or have insufficient financial, time, organizational resources, etc. to engage in serious water and energy saving initiatives. Moreover, most interviewed managers indicated that tourists cannot make a significant contribution to natural resources conservation in accommodation units and perceive water and energy saving systems as more effective than the environmental education of visitors in their facility. These findings may be useful to tourism policy-makers and environmental organizations in order to develop effective environmental strategies in ATBHs.

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Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

2019

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“…It includes rational predictors and assigns to self-interest motives and also to pro-social motives [42]. Numerous scholars pointed out the need to add pro-social variables to the TPB model, which has been successfully and broadly pragmatic in several studies to explicate various aspects of environmental behaviors, such as sustainable healthcare [43], green hotels [44,45], tourism studies [46], house rentals [47], rural development [48], the fashion industry [49], picking up litter in protected areas [50], urban bike-sharing for holiday cycling [51], sustainable agriculture [52][53][54], sustainable education [55], sustainable heritage tourism [56], sustainable consumption [57], energy-saving [58], water conservation [59,60], e-waste recycling [61], and sustainable transportation [62]. Henceforth, the extended TPB model was revealed to have stronger predictive power than the original TPB model [63].…”

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Sustainability of Green Tourism among International Tourists and Its Influence on the Achievement of Green Environment: Evidence from North Cyprus

2020

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Sustainability of green tourism is gaining more attention from different stakeholders due to its environmental benefits. However, empirical studies on the behavioral aspect of the tourists towards sustainability of green tourism and its influence on the achievement of the green environment have not been exhaustively researched, most especially in a small island state like North Cyprus. In this paper, we investigate the behavioral aspects of international tourists towards the sustainability of green tourism employing an extended framework of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). A sample of 395 questionnaires was administered to the tourists that lodged at the 20 randomly selected five-star hotels in North Cyprus, while the study model was examined through structural equation modelling (SEM). Our study findings indicated that tourists’ perceptions of the sustainability of green tourism and their environmental concerns had a significantly positive impact on their attitudes. In addition, our results revealed that subjective norms had a significantly negative impact on intentions of the tourists to participate in sustainability of green tourism, while attitude was found to have a significantly positive impact on the tourists’ intentions to participate in the sustainability of green tourism. Moreover, we found that both environmental concerns and the intention of the tourists to participate in the sustainability of green tourism had a significantly positive impact on environmentally responsible tourism behavior. Lastly, our study contributes to enhancing the understanding of the perception of tourists on the green environment as it affects their behavior and subsequent influence on their intention to participate in the sustainability of green tourism with the attendant impact on the achievement of environmental degradation reduction.

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“…Mohiuddin et al (2018) [95] determined the impacts of environmental awareness on students’ willingness to buy green vehicles with a TPB framework. Leelapattana et al (2019) [96] used environmental education as an antecedent variable of the TPB to reveal the impact of environmental education on consumers’ intention when choosing a farm vacation. In addition, other extension factors are often used in related studies, such as environmental performance [97,98,99], self-identity [76,100], government incentives [64,92], and environmental values [101,102].…”

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Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Environmental Science: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

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Since the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was proposed by Ajzen in 1985, it has attracted extensive interest and been widely applied worldwide. Although an increasing number of studies have employed the TPB in the domain of environmental science, there have been no attempts to retrospectively analyze existing articles. The current study aimed to holistically understand the application status of the TPB in environmental science from a knowledge domain visualization perspective. A total of 531 journal articles were obtained through the Scopus database to perform a bibliometric analysis and content analysis. The results showed that waste management, green consumption, climate and environment, saving and conservation, and sustainable transportation are the primary research topics; the United States (U.S.), Mainland China, the United Kingdom (UK), and Malaysia are the most productive countries/regions. Moreover, the cross-disciplinary situations, main source journals, and key articles were revealed. Furthermore, the extended factors, integrated theories, major methods, specific groups, and control variables of environmental science research using the TPB were elaborated and integrated into a comprehensive application framework. Constructive criticisms were ultimately discussed. The findings contribute in several ways to help relevant researchers learn about the application of TPB to environmental science and provide new insights and holistic references for further research on environment-related behavior.

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Understanding the Impact of Environmental Education on Tourists’ Future Visit Intentions to Leisure Farms in Mountain Regions

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

Environmental Management Practices within Agritourism Boarding Houses in Romania: A Qualitative Study Among Managers

Sustainability of Green Tourism among International Tourists and Its Influence on the Achievement of Green Environment: Evidence from North Cyprus

Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior in Environmental Science: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis

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