Greening in nostalgia? How nostalgic traveling enhances tourists' proenvironmental behaviour

Sustainable development has risen to hold a vital role in tourism research and practice, requiring a deep understanding of what factors could promote tourists' environmental behaviour. This research focuses on the sustainable development of tourism and aims to converge nostalgia, meaning in lif...

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Published inSustainable development (Bradford, West Yorkshire, England) Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 634 - 645
Main Authors Wu, Zhongda, Chen, Yu, Geng, Liuna, Zhou, Lei, Zhou, Kexin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.07.2020
Subjects
Behavior
Environmental behavior
Environmental behaviour
Environmental policy
Greening
Meaning
meaning in life
Multivariate statistical analysis
Norms
Nostalgia
Perceived control
proenvironmental behaviour
R&D
Research & development
Social development
Structural equation modeling
Sustainability
Sustainable development
sustainable tourism
the theory of planned behaviour
Theory of planned behavior
Tourism
Tourists
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Summary:Sustainable development has risen to hold a vital role in tourism research and practice, requiring a deep understanding of what factors could promote tourists' environmental behaviour. This research focuses on the sustainable development of tourism and aims to converge nostalgia, meaning in life, and the theory of planned behaviour to understand the factors influencing tourists' proenvironmental behaviour. A field study (n = 428) was conducted at a famous tourist destination in China. Structural equation modelling showed that nostalgia enhances tourists' proenvironmental behaviour through mediators including subjective attitude, perceived behavioural control, subjective norms, and meaning in life. This research illuminates the importance of nostalgia in the sustainable development of tourism, suggesting that tourism managers could use nostalgic elements to design effective programmes or policies in environmental practices.
ISSN:0968-0802
1099-1719
DOI:10.1002/sd.2014