The Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours of European Golf Tourists

Jesús Manuel López-Bonilla, María Del Carmen Reyes-Rodríguez and Luis Miguel López-Bonilla
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Jesús Manuel López-Bonilla: Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
María Del Carmen Reyes-Rodríguez: Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Luis Miguel López-Bonilla: Department of Business Administration and Marketing, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-16

Abstract: Environmental attitudes and behaviours have received relatively little attention in golf tourism, compared to other tourism research areas. Golf tourism provides products and services based on nature, and they should focus on the environment. Golf has become increasingly important in the development of European tourism within the last decade. Moreover, golf is one of the primary motivations for European tourists in the sports tourism sector. This study is based on a sample of 431 golf tourists, from different nationalities, who visit Andalusia, Spain. This research examines the relationship between environmental attitudes and behavioural intentions for three subsamples of European nationalities: British, German, and Spanish. This relationship was corroborated in the three subsamples. However, the national citizenship of European golf tourists was not a moderator effect on the relationship between environmental attitudes and behavioural intentions.

Keywords: environmental concern; environmental intention; golf; tourist behaviour; cross-cultural analysis; nationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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