Tourist behaviour change for sustainable consumption (SDG Goal12): Tourism agenda 2030 perspective article

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Authors

Sara Dolnicar¹

1. The University of Queensland

Conference / event

7th UNESCO-UNITWIN Conference, May 2022 (Portoroz, Slovenia)

Poster summary

UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 calls for sustainable consumption, listing four targets that are specifically relevant to tourism. This poster provides an overview of how tourism researchers have contributed to achieving those targets, highlighting practical measures that have already been developed and tested in quasi-experimental field studies by researchers. It also recommends how future research should be directed. We urgently need many more evidence-based practical measures that can be utilised by tourism businesses to improve their environmental performance. We also need to develop an automatic and objective environmental performance monitoring system to monitor the efficacy of these practical measures.

Keywords

Behavior change, Sustainability, SDG

Research areas

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Finance

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Funding

1. Australian Research Council Australian Laureate Fellowship (No. FL190100143)

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

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Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

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Copyright © 2023 Dolnicar. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.