Artigo Revisado por pares

The “sustainable tourist”: Values, attitudes, and personality traits

2015; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1467358415576086

ISSN

1742-9692

Autores

Paola Passafaro, Francesca Cini, Lorenzo Boi, Michela D’Angelo, Maria Sophia Heering, Laura Luchetti, Armando Mancini, Valentina Martemucci, Giulia Pacella, Fabio Patrizi, Federica Sassu, Monica Triolo,

Tópico(s)

Environmental Sustainability in Business

Resumo

This paper reports the results of two exploratory studies (overall N=532) which aimed at drawing the profile of the “sustainable tourist” (a person committed to respect the sustainability principles when on holiday) in terms of personal values, attitudes, and personality traits, following an environmental psychology approach. More specifically, study 1 explored the role of attitudes toward sustainable tourism, affinity toward (social and environmental) diversity, and personal values, while study 2 assessed the role of the Big Five personality traits in the prediction of preferences for sustainable and unsustainable tourist activities. Results indicate that biospheric values, positive attitudes toward sustainable tourism, and higher levels of affinity toward diversity are able to predict more sustainable tourism choices while personality traits seemed to play a more indirect and complex role.

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