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How important are environmentally unsustainable non-essential hotel service components to tourists? A discrete choice experiment

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  • von Briel, Dorine
  • Kemperman, Astrid
  • Dolnicar, Sara

    (The University of Queensland)

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United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 calls for nations to ensure sustainable consumption and production. The tourism industry can contribute to this aim by reducing the provision of non-essential service components with negative environmental consequences, such as single-use plastic items. This study (1) identifies unsustainable non-essential accommodation services, (2) determines tourist preferences for each service compared to each other at aggregate and market segment levels, and (3) assesses the potential of two alternative theory-based approaches (risk reduction through autonomy and gain- and loss- framing of the price) to entice tourists to forfeit environmentally unsustainable non-essential service components. Results from a discrete choice experiment suggest that tourists see little value in most non-essential unsustainable service components and that gain-framing the price represents the most promising strategy to motivate tourists to voluntarily opt-out of such service components. Theoretical and managerial implications of these findings are discussed.

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  • von Briel, Dorine & Kemperman, Astrid & Dolnicar, Sara, 2022. "How important are environmentally unsustainable non-essential hotel service components to tourists? A discrete choice experiment," OSF Preprints a9wbe_v1, Center for Open Science.
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    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/a9wbe_v1
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