Understanding tourists’ reactance to the threat of a loss of freedom to travel due to climate change: a new alternative approach to encouraging nuanced behavioural change

Font, Xavier; Hindley, Ann

doi:10.1080/09669582.2016.1165235

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“…Despite the fact that companies know this, they lack the skills to write differently (Kreps & Monin, 2011). Emphasis needs to be on providing alternative desirable experiences that deflect consumers' attention from buying the most unsustainable products and actions by making them less attractive, particularly in situations where sustainability arguments are seen as a threat to one's freedom as consumer (B€ ogel, 2015;Font & Hindley, 2016;Petty & Cacioppo, 1986).…”

Section: The Market Development Approachmentioning

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Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential

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McCabe

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Tourism marketing has typically been seen as exploitative and fuelling hedonistic consumerism. Sustainability marketing can, however, use marketing skills and techniques to good purpose, by understanding market needs, designing more sustainable products and identifying more persuasive methods of communication to bring behavioural change. This article summarises the latest research on the theories, methods and results of marketing that seeks to make tourist destinations better places to live in, and better places to visit. It explores sustainability marketing's two fundamental approaches, that of market development, using market segmentation, and that of sustainable product development. It introduces a Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism on sustainable marketing, sharing evidence on the motivations, mechanisms and barriers that businesses encounter, and on successes in changing consumer behaviour and pursuing sustainability goals. Particular attention is given to the methodologies of sustainable tourism marketing, to the subject's breadth and complexity, and to its many innovations. Further research is called for to fully understand what contextual aspects influence these prosustainability interventions to achieve which outcomes in other settings, in order to validate some of the exploratory studies discussed, and establish the feasibility of scaling up pilot studies for more general use.

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Section: The Market Development Approachmentioning

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Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential

Font

McCabe

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Hence, tourism has actually become a major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide [22] despite the many forms of tourism, such as coastal tourism [23], ski tourism [24,25], and animal watching tourism [26,27] Major studies have examined the climate change that tourism brings from the perspective of tourists. For example, studies have been conducted on the difficulty of adopting low-carbon vacations [29,30], the profile of travelers who have actually paid for the carbon emissions generated by their air travel [31,32] and those who intend to pay [33], the role of values in influencing tourists to reduce air travel [34], and the reasons behind their reluctance to change their behavior to better address the issue of climate change [35]. However, climate change remains an overlooked phenomenon for large quantities of tourists from developing countries [36].…”

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Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

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Abstract:The influence of tourism on the environment has led to research on the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars from popular destinations and their governments are actively conducting sustainable tourism research, and their contributions to the field have achieved global renown. Without data from the natural sciences, knowledge from tourism dominates this area. This work utilizes content analysis to systematically review these studies to present the current state of existing research with the aid of visualization tools. The findings delineate the development of research on sustainable tourism in terms of collaboration, impact, knowledge base, and thematic coverage. Six major themes are selected to showcase recent trends in sustainable tourism research and guide future studies. Accordingly, this study can contribute to the development of sustainable tourism research and guide industry practices.

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“…Researchers investigating notions of sustainable tourism recognise disconnections between travel choice and everyday, highly routinized, social practice (Font & Hindley, 2017;Hall, 2013b;Whitmarsh, 2009). There is also awareness that in attempting to move towards more sustainable lifestyle and travel choices, the relations between tourism and everyday routines and socio-technical structures need to be altered (Hall, 2013b).…”

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“…Moreover, many qualitative studies establish that issues of sustainability are largely ignored in travel planning because tourists dismiss their potential contribution and the difference certain choices may generate (Hall, 2013b). Travellers have been found to draw on a range of justifications to make sense of contradictions between personal environmental politics and practice -for example, in justifying the emissions required for long distance travel to remote locations, holidays may be positioned as once off experiences, distinct from daily reality (Font & Hindley, 2017). In light of these findings, sustainable tourism researchers recognise that any shifts resulting in sustainable tourist practice are likely to come about as a result of changes to everyday highly routinized social practices, relations and socio-technical structures.…”

Section: Positioning Foraging Tourism: Sustainable Tourism Local Foomentioning

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“…Whilst somewhat counterproductive to environmental sustainability, travel from this perspective becomes an opportunity to learn and rethink current practice (Tucker, 2016). Increasing interest in longer, slower and simpler ways of travelling presents opportunities to promote sustainable discourses and practices in ways that complement and benefit traveller motivations (Font & Hindley, 2017).…”

Section: Positioning Foraging Tourism: Sustainable Tourism Local Foomentioning

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Foraging tourism: critical moments in sustainable consumption

Jong

Varley

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Despite the prevalence of sustainability discourses across the Global North, for the majority of people abstract issues of sustainability often have a low salience with the realities of travel choices. Researchers examining sustainable tourism recognise that any changes resulting in sustainable performance are likely to come about as a result of shifts in everyday highly routinised social practices, relations and socio-technical structures. Attending to these debates, this paper examines relations between social practice, sustainability and tourism through the rise in foraging tourism in the United Kingdom. Using evidence from interviews and media analysis detailing perspectives of foraging course leaders and attendees, alongside participant observation, the paper records the ways in which foraging experiences are negotiated and accomplished in commercial contexts and what participants “do” with the ideas and practices post-experience. By engaging with debates surrounding the meanings of sustainable tourism, the paper extends understanding of these concepts through the identification of foraging tourism as a facilitator in rethinking everyday practice and discourse. The paper ends by evaluating the potentials of tourism in facilitating sustainable performance and discourse

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Understanding tourists’ reactance to the threat of a loss of freedom to travel due to climate change: a new alternative approach to encouraging nuanced behavioural change

Cited by 55 publications

References 70 publications

Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential

Sustainability and marketing in tourism: its contexts, paradoxes, approaches, challenges and potential

Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

Foraging tourism: critical moments in sustainable consumption

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