IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rcitxx/v22y2019i2p197-217.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Motivational place attachment dimensions and the pro-environmental behaviour intention of mass tourists: a moderated mediation model

Author

Listed:
  • Ying Qu
  • Feifei Xu
  • Xingyang LYU

Abstract

As a majority of tourist group, the pro-environmental psychological mechanism of mass tourists has not been investigated adequately. Deepening one core facet of the model of goal-directed behaviour, this study investigates the relationships among attitude (i.e. place attachment dimensions), desire, intention and mass tourism value orientation to expound the pro-environmental mentality of mass tourists. Questionnaires were collected from 865 domestic mass tourists visiting Sanya, China. The results partially confirm the validity of the explanation model and delineate the pro-environmental motivating nuance of each place attachment dimension. Place affect and place dependence both significantly motivate the environmental activation of mass tourists. While the motivating effect of the former is rather solid, it is vulnerable to moderation when it comes to the latter. Place identity unexpectedly plays a negative motivating role. The implications of the research findings are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • Ying Qu & Feifei Xu & Xingyang LYU, 2019. "Motivational place attachment dimensions and the pro-environmental behaviour intention of mass tourists: a moderated mediation model," Current Issues in Tourism, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 197-217, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:22:y:2019:i:2:p:197-217
    DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2017.1399988
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13683500.2017.1399988
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13683500.2017.1399988?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rcitxx:v:22:y:2019:i:2:p:197-217. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rcit .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.