Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China

Tourists’ illegal behaviors are one of the main reasons for the environmental problems of China’s tourism industry. In recent years, more tourism researchers began to pay attention to the role of tourists and their actions in the ecological protection of tourist destinations, namely tourists'...

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Main Author:	Xiao, Yue
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Tourism - Environmental aspects Tourists
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/105593/1/SPE%202022%2018%20UPMIR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.1055932024-02-14T00:43:02Z Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China 2022-07 Xiao, Yue Tourists’ illegal behaviors are one of the main reasons for the environmental problems of China’s tourism industry. In recent years, more tourism researchers began to pay attention to the role of tourists and their actions in the ecological protection of tourist destinations, namely tourists' pro-environmental behaviors. However, previous researches on pro-environmental behaviors usually focused on tourists’ individual factors but ignored the impact of contextual interaction factors. Therefore, this thesis tries to fill in the literature gap by exploring the influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors (PEB). Taking three important theories such as norm activation model (NAM), social capital theory, and broken window theory as the theoretical basis, this study explains tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors from interpersonally and environmentally contextual perspectives. It selects interpersonal ties, group norms, and social trust of tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors as external factors to study their influences on the internal factors of tourists’ proenvironmental behaviors. And face-to-face questionnaires are used to collect dates and Partial least squares (PLS), which is a variance-based SEM method to evaluate hypotheses. As a result, the findings of this study revealed that 1) Group norms, personal norms, social trust and environmental contextual factors have a direct impact on the pro-environmental behavior; 2) Ascription of responsibility and group norms have an indirect impact on the pro-environmental behavior via personal norms; 3) while awareness of consequences has an indirect impact on personal norms via ascription of responsibility; 4) interpersonal ties regulate the relationship between group norms and pro-environmental behaviors. This study has added value to the social capital theory, broken window theory, and the NAM in their applicability’s in explaining tourists’ PEB. Plus, it provided a feasible interaction direction for Chinese tourism managers to guide tourists' PEB. Tourism - Environmental aspects Tourists 2022-07 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/105593/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/105593/1/SPE%202022%2018%20UPMIR.pdf text en public doctoral Universiti Putra Malaysia Tourism - Environmental aspects Tourists Yee, Choy Leong
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English
advisor	Yee, Choy Leong
topic	Tourism - Environmental aspects Tourists
spellingShingle	Tourism - Environmental aspects Tourists Xiao, Yue Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
description	Tourists’ illegal behaviors are one of the main reasons for the environmental problems of China’s tourism industry. In recent years, more tourism researchers began to pay attention to the role of tourists and their actions in the ecological protection of tourist destinations, namely tourists' pro-environmental behaviors. However, previous researches on pro-environmental behaviors usually focused on tourists’ individual factors but ignored the impact of contextual interaction factors. Therefore, this thesis tries to fill in the literature gap by exploring the influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors (PEB). Taking three important theories such as norm activation model (NAM), social capital theory, and broken window theory as the theoretical basis, this study explains tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors from interpersonally and environmentally contextual perspectives. It selects interpersonal ties, group norms, and social trust of tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors as external factors to study their influences on the internal factors of tourists’ proenvironmental behaviors. And face-to-face questionnaires are used to collect dates and Partial least squares (PLS), which is a variance-based SEM method to evaluate hypotheses. As a result, the findings of this study revealed that 1) Group norms, personal norms, social trust and environmental contextual factors have a direct impact on the pro-environmental behavior; 2) Ascription of responsibility and group norms have an indirect impact on the pro-environmental behavior via personal norms; 3) while awareness of consequences has an indirect impact on personal norms via ascription of responsibility; 4) interpersonal ties regulate the relationship between group norms and pro-environmental behaviors. This study has added value to the social capital theory, broken window theory, and the NAM in their applicability’s in explaining tourists’ PEB. Plus, it provided a feasible interaction direction for Chinese tourism managers to guide tourists' PEB.
format	Thesis
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author	Xiao, Yue
author_facet	Xiao, Yue
author_sort	Xiao, Yue
title	Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
title_short	Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
title_full	Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
title_fullStr	Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
title_full_unstemmed	Influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in China
title_sort	influence of tourist-to-tourist interaction and environmental contextual factors on tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in china
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2022
url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/105593/1/SPE%202022%2018%20UPMIR.pdf
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