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Pathways to Social and Business Sustainability: Place Attachment, Trust in Government, and Quality of Life

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  • Haywantee Ramkissoon

    (UniSA Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    Peer Review College, British Academy of Management, London EC4R 1QS, UK
    School of Tourism and Hospitality, College of Business & Economics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa
    Centre for Innovation in Tourism, Taylor’s University, Subang Jaya 47500, Malaysia)

  • Md. Nekmahmud

    (Department of Marketing and International Business, School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh)

  • Felix T. Mavondo

    (Department of Marketing, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia)

Abstract

This research investigates the role residents’ place attachment plays in developing their trust in the government in the city of Budapest. Rooted in different domains such as politics, environmental, and social psychology and aligned with the related SDGs (goals 3, 11 16, 17), an integrative model of residents’ place attachment, trust in the local government, QoL, social impacts, and pro-social engagement is proposed, which the authors argue are important mechanisms to be explored in determining support for sustainable tourism development to promote responsible consumption and production (SDG 12). We applied SEM on a sample of 350 residents. Findings suggest that place attachment significantly influences residents’ trust in the local government, which also has a positive influence on quality of life. Quality of life has a significant influence on perceived social impacts, which strongly leads to pro-social engagement; pro-social engagement underpins support for tourism development. This paper sets a future research agenda for sustainable tourism by indicating its possible antecedents. Sustainable tourism development has important implications for the achievement of other sustainability goals. The study aligns well with the United Nations Tourism’s vision of tourism as an important driver of positive change for responsible consumption and advancing other SDGs.

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  • Haywantee Ramkissoon & Md. Nekmahmud & Felix T. Mavondo, 2025. "Pathways to Social and Business Sustainability: Place Attachment, Trust in Government, and Quality of Life," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-24, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:17:y:2025:i:5:p:1901-:d:1598195
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