Low-Carbon Travel Motivation and Constraint: Scales Development and Validation

You-Yu Dai, An-Jin Shie, Jin-Hua Chu and Yen-Chun Jim Wu
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You-Yu Dai: International Business School, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai 264209, China
An-Jin Shie: College of Business Administration, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China
Jin-Hua Chu: International Business School, Shandong Jiaotong University, Weihai 264209, China
Yen-Chun Jim Wu: Graduate Institute of Global Business and Strategy, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 106, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 9, 1-25

Abstract: Low-carbon travel has emerged as a topic of interest in tourism and academia. Studies have offered reasons tourists may engage in low-carbon travel; however, these explanations are scattered throughout the literature and have yet to be integrated into low-carbon travel motivation and constraint constructs. This study develops a low-carbon travel motivation scale (LCTMS) and a low-carbon travel constraint scale (LCTCS). It performs reliability and validity testing to measure the low-carbon travel motives and obstacles. Items were collected primarily by literature review, and, then, by surveys of 382 tourists from low-carbon travel destinations and 390 from non-low-carbon travel destinations. Through a rigorous scale development process, this study identifies six dimensions of the LCTMS (environmental protection, experience-seeking, escape or social connection, industry pleas and measures for environmental protection, low-carbon products, and green transportation) and four dimensions of the LCTCS (intrapersonal constraints, interpersonal constraints, structural constraints, and the not a travel option).

Keywords: low-carbon travel motivation; low-carbon travel constraint; low-carbon travel behavior; independent tourist; scale development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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