Evidence on the Relationship between Place Attachment and Behavioral Intentions between 2010 and 2021: A Systematic Literature Review

Lisa Dang and Jan Weiss
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Lisa Dang: Institute of Tourism and Mobility ITM—The Mobility Competence Centre, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 6002 Lucerne, Switzerland
Jan Weiss: Risk Analytics and Regulatory Banking, Sopra Steria Next, 22085 Hamburg, Germany

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-19

Abstract: Place attachment is a key concept in understanding affective person–place relationships, and it provides an appropriate approach for the study of human behavior. This systematic literature review based on the PRISMA guidelines focuses on the relationships between place attachment and behavioral intentions. Due to the high number of studies that used place attachment as an independent or mediating variable, we categorized the studies into different research areas, which include business and management, risk and crisis, urban planning, environmental psychology, leisure, and hospitality and tourism. The results of the qualitative analysis revealed that most of the studies provided empirical evidence of a significant relationship between place attachment and willingness to pay, loyalty, risk coping behavior, land management practices, civic engagement, pro-environmental behaviors, and pro-tourism behaviors such as revisit and recommendation intentions. After we present our results and conclusion, we provide an outlook on the need for further research.

Keywords: place attachment; behavioral intentions; management; crisis; urban planning; environmental psychology; leisure; tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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