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Green Tourism Consumption and Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 July 2024) | Viewed by 2978

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Lujun Su

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Business School, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Interests: tourist consumption; destination social responsibility; destination management
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Green tourism consumption and sustainable development are important discourses as well as crucial areas of research in today’s world. As the concern for environmental protection and sustainable practices grows, the tourism industry plays a significant role in promoting responsible travel behaviors and minimizing the negative impacts of traveling on natural resources.

This Special Issue aims to collate cutting-edge research manuscripts on green tourism consumption and its implications for sustainable development. Papers that examine aspects such as green consumption preferences, environmentally responsible behavior, community engagement, and green innovation from a wide spectra of perspectives including tourists, tourism practitioners, residents in tourist destinations, and tourism businesses are welcome.

Through this endeavor, we seek to contribute to the understanding of how tourism can be a catalyst for positive change. The subject of green tourism consumption aligns perfectly with the scope of our journal Sustainability, which focuses on promoting research on sustainable practices and their impact on global development.

We welcome submissions of original research articles and reviews on topics including (but not limited to) the following:

  1. Sense of power and green consumption preference; 
  2. Green human resource management and hotel employees’ environmentally responsibility behavior;
  3. Community engagement and participation in sustainable tourism development;
  4. The role of technology (e.g., AI) in promoting green innovation and sustainable development;
  5. Green brands of tourism business in promoting green consumption behavior;
  6. Strategies for promoting sustainable tourism products and experiences through responsible tourism marketing.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Lujun Su
Guest Editor

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • green consumption
  • green preference
  • green innovation
  • sustainable tourism
  • sustainable development
  • pro-environmental behavior
  • environmentally responsibility behavior
  • ecological behavior
  • environmental management

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Study on the Spatial Layout and Influencing Factors of Campsites in the Yellow River Basin
by Xiaofei Fang, Pengfei Tai and Fugao Jiang
Sustainability 2024, 16(12), 4944; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16124944 - 9 Jun 2024
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Based on the camping sites in the Yellow River Basin published by Amap, this study examines the spatial distribution pattern of camping sites using various indices, including the average nearest neighbor index, geographical concentration index, disequilibrium index, and kernel density estimation. The research [...] Read more.
Based on the camping sites in the Yellow River Basin published by Amap, this study examines the spatial distribution pattern of camping sites using various indices, including the average nearest neighbor index, geographical concentration index, disequilibrium index, and kernel density estimation. The research findings are as follows: (1) Camping sites exhibit a highly significant agglomeration distribution, and the spatial scale presents a non-equilibrium characteristic of “east dense west sparse”. The distribution density of camping sites shows clear hot and cold spots, forming a general pattern of “one belt, one mass, two points”. The locations of these camping sites commonly follow the rule of “backing mountains, along roads, and accompanied by scenery”. (2) The spatial distribution of camping sites is influenced by both natural factors, such as elevation and air quality, and social factors, such as highway mileage and the number of high-level scenic spots. The impact of social factors is found to be more substantial than that of natural environmental factors. Full article
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Leveraging Information and Communication Technologies in Forest Ecotourism: A Case Study from Poland
by Monika Kozłowska-Adamczak, Patrycja Essing-Jelonkiewicz and Aleksandra Jezierska-Thöle
Sustainability 2024, 16(1), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010056 - 20 Dec 2023
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Ecotourism encompasses various forms of tourism which are implemented in accordance with the principles of sustainable development of the EU. They maintain a balance between the three pillars of sustainable development: economic development, sustainable use of natural resources, and respect for social and [...] Read more.
Ecotourism encompasses various forms of tourism which are implemented in accordance with the principles of sustainable development of the EU. They maintain a balance between the three pillars of sustainable development: economic development, sustainable use of natural resources, and respect for social and cultural values. Ecotourism in forests holds particular significance due to its ability to sustain the ecological, social, and economic integrity of these areas. Activities promoting access to forests focus on ensuring a safe and enriching experience for forest users while simultaneously conserving nature. In response to the needs of forest tourism and recreation enthusiasts, innovative developments and new information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as websites, web platforms, mobile apps, QR codes, and others are being introduced with increasing frequency. These technologies already have a wide range of applications in providing access to tourism information and services in other sectors of tourism management and are now supplanting conventional sightseeing information systems. This paper aims to present the activities currently underway in connection with the development of a new tourism and recreation offering in the forests owned by the State Treasury and managed by the State Forests National Forest Holding in Poland. The research involved conducting an environmental survey among representatives of all forest districts in Poland (n = 425). A questionnaire survey was created using the Microsoft Forms web-based programme and made available online to representatives of all State Forests’ forest districts in Poland participating in the Stay Overnight in the Forest programme. The scope of this paper covers the present day, with a primary focus on desk research and analysis of statistics and source materials pertaining to the period from 2007 to 2022, retrieved from internal documents and reports prepared by the General Directorate of the State Forests. The research demonstrated that technological innovations such as mobile apps, social media, websites, web portals, and YouTube TV, when employed for developing forest tourism and forest recreation in Poland, can contribute to the advancement of the forest’s non-productive role, namely, a social role and in particular, the tourism, leisure, and recreational function of the State Forests. Full article
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