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Although there is considerable consumer power resting in the hands of the individual tourist, in terms of the types of tourism products offered and the places being visited, there has been, surprisingly, little empirical research regarding tourists' preferences for particular tourism packages and holidays. Furthermore, little is known in relation t...
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... order to determine if there was a difference between those who were sampled from the ecotourism venue and the mainstream venue in terms of their preferences for holiday types, a Chi-square analysis was employed. Results are summarized in Table 3. Those who were sampled at the ecotourism venue were generally more likely to prefer the ecotourism type holidays, and less likely to prefer the mainstream type holidays. ...
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... Table 3 here --- The full pattern of preferences for ecotourism holidays in particular were examined in more detail, and Figure 1 graphically illustrates the opposing patterns of ranked preferences (i.e. 1st to 6th) which emerged between tourists sampled at each of the two different venue types (i.e. ...
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... Ecosystem integrity and conservation is becoming a major attraction factor for tourists who are looking for wildlife and pristine destinations [38,82], for those who pay a particular attention to sustainability issues [83,84] and are willing to pay a premium to visit ecosystems with greater ecological health such as Marine Protected Areas [85,86]. This is apparently confirmed by the increasing attractiveness and growing flows of tourists towards the more pristine area of Marsa Alam and towards ecologically pristine areas, as it is for the Ras Mohammed National Park, close to Sharm El Sheikh, that passed from a few hundreds of visitors (tickets emitted) in 1988, to 444,653 in the fiscal year 2018/19, of which 400,461 (90 %) were international tourists [87]. ...
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... 4. International tourist: He is the visitor who moves to a country other than his place of residence for work, treatment, study or other reasons, and for a period not exceeding one year. b-The eco-tourist: An ecotourist is defined as a consumer of tourism who prefers ecotourism over other types of tourism, due to their preferences, principles, tendencies, and psychological orientation (Perkins et al, 2009). Environmental as well as commitment to sustainability. ...
... As a field of expression, ecotourism has also been described as travel to natural areas, with environmentally friendly actions and improving the well-being of local residents (Weaver, 2001;Kiper, 2013). It focuses on the natural beauty, geology, flora and fauna of a particular area, together with the other indigenous cultural elements that coexist (Weaver, 2001(Weaver, , 2004Fennel, 2002Fennel, , 2014 and provides beneficial active socio-economic participation of local people ( Perkins & Debra, 2009;Sayyed et al., 2013;Demir et al., 2016). ...
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Purpose: Recent literature emphasizes that there is an ambiguity on ecotourism consumption as actual environmentally friendly behaviors deviate from the intentions. Further, it is identified that ecotourism offerings are higher in price and discourage consumption. Hence, this study examined ecotourism consumer behaviors focusing on motivation, ecotourism intention, and willingness to pay premium for ecotourism. It also aims to investigate the mediating effect of ecotourism intention between motivations and willingness to pay premium. Design/methodology/approach: The study undertook a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional design. Self-administrated questionnaires (online) were distributed employing purposive sampling technique to young domestic travelers who had purchased green travel products in the last six months in Sri Lanka. A total of 212 responses were analyzed by PLS-SEM approach using SmartPLS 4.0 software. Findings: The findings revealed that intrinsic motivation significantly influenced the willingness to pay premium whereas the impact of extrinsic motivation on willingness to pay premium was insignificant. Additionally, this study proved that ecotourism intention partially mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivation and willingness to pay premium while ecotourism intention fully mediated the relationship between extrinsic motivation and willingness to pay premium. Originality: This research contributes to extending knowledge of tourism consumer behaviour in the context of ecotourism. Moreover, this study examined how an individual is motivated towards ecotourism consumption and their willingness to pay premium for such consumptions. Thus, the present study integrates the actual behavior, willingness to pay premium to further explain the self-determination theory. Thus, it empirically contributes to broadening the understanding of comprehensive ecotourism consumer behaviour that has been paid little attention. Implications: The findings offer important practical implications for ecotourism providers, marketers, policymakers, and other decision-makers for planning and developing ecotourism offerings, effective marketing and promotion to encourage and ensure sustainable tourism consumption.
... Environmentally sustainable tourists (also known as environmentally friendly tourists, eco tourists, green tourists, and so on) are tourism consumers who prefer ecotourism over other types of tourism due to their natural inclinations, preferences, and convictions, or their proenvironmental psychological orientation (Perkins & Grace, 2009). The ecotourists can be identified on the approaches based on site and activity, motivation, value, multicriteria and respondent (Hvenegaard, 2002). ...
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Purpose
This study investigates the moderating effect of eco-destination image on the relationships between travel motivations and ecotourism intention.
Design/methodology/approach
The study employs the convenience sampling method to develop a research sample, and the multivariate data analysis method to analyse the data of 435 valid observations collected in the structured questionnaire survey conducted in Vietnam.
Findings
The paper reports that the eco-destination image significantly strengthens the effects of four travel motives (i.e. excitement, escape, knowledge-seeking and self-development) on ecotourism intention. However, the moderating impact of eco-destination image on the link between socialising motive and ecotourism intention is insignificant.
Originality/value
This study is the first to shed light on the role of eco-destination image in strengthening the effects of travel motivations on ecotourism demand. The study provides a framework for segmenting promotion materials associated with destination image based on different types of customers' internal travel motivations. The framework includes four dimensions: (1) destination image reflecting enablers of excitement, (2) destination image reflecting enablers of escaping from daily life routine, (3) destination image reflecting enablers of knowledge-seeking and (4) destination image reflecting enablers of personal development.
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