NS29 Session 16

29th Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research
Shaping mobile futures: Challenges and possibilities in precarious times

21-23 September 2021

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Title: Sustainable behaviour in tourism and hospitality

Organisers: Sarah Seidel & Femke Vrenegoor

Affiliation: Academy of International Hospitality Research

 

Description

Tourism’s future greatly depends on its capacity to meet a growing demand without increasing its environmental footprint or its pressure on communities at the destination (UNWTO and UNDP, 2017). The Sustainable Development Goals were established as a new global sustainable development agenda for 2030. Many of these 17 SDGs can be related to tourism and hospitality; such as sustainable consumption (goal 12), climate change (goal 13) or reduced inequalities (goal 10). In addition, nudging behaviour in hospitality and tourism can also be used to get people to consume less water (goal 6), to lower food waste (goal 2) and so on. CSR (interpreted as value creation on people, planet and profit) therefore can be connected to all UNSDGs. In particular, there are hopes to redevelop international tourism into sustainable tourism after the Covid-19 crisis (Chang, McAleer & Ramos, 2020)

The question therefore arises how to influence the behaviour of actors in the tourism supply chain (providers and consumers) to practise more sustainable behaviour and, consequently, make organisational/individual sustainability values more salient (Abrahamse, & Steg, 2013; De Groot & Steg, 2008) and to reach the UNSDGs.

This session is geared towards sharing research on influencing actors in the tourism supply chain by connecting to their values, as to practise more sustainable behaviour. Which opportunities are there to reach a sustainable mobile future?

 

Examples of possible topics:

  • Nudging sustainable behaviour in fragile Nordic natural areas.
  • Influencing sustainable travel decision making behaviour.
  • Choosing small scale local products during travel.
  • Avoiding waste in the tourism or hospitality supply chain.

Key words: Sustainable behaviour, conflicting interests, climate change, organisational/individual behaviour.

 

 

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