Hotel Guests’ Psychological Distance of Climate Change and Environment-Friendly Behavior Intention

Wansoo Kim, Chen Che and Chul Jeong
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Wansoo Kim: Department of Tourism Management, Gachon University, 1342 Seongnam-daero, Sujeong-gu, Incheon 13120, Korea
Chen Che: College of History and Tourism Culture, Inner Mongolia University, No. 235, Daxue West Road, Hohhot 010021, China
Chul Jeong: Division of Tourism Science, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Climate change is certainly a global problem that negatively affects all nations, and thus all humans, on the globe. Nevertheless, little is known about people’s perceptions of climate change and its effects on people’s attitudinal and behavioral responses to climate change. The present study successfully addressed how hotel guests’ environment-friendly behavior intention is formed through their self-perception as a member of the global community and their psychological distance of climate change. An online survey was used to collect quantitative data from hotel guests to verify the hypotheses. Our test results supported all the hypotheses in our conceptual model. Consequently, the findings of this study satisfactorily explained how hotel guests form their intention to engage in environment-friendly behaviors while they are staying at hotels.

Keywords: global identity; psychological distance of climate change; norm activation model; hotel; environment-friendly behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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