Journal
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Volume 30, Issue 6, Pages 1301-1319Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2021.1932936
Keywords
Food choice; health; carbon footprint; local food; hotel; endorsement
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This study found that in tourism consumption, appeals emphasizing healthiness or local origin had higher persuasiveness compared to other-benefit appeals focusing on ecological friendliness.
There is very limited research on point-of-consumption/point-of-purchase interventions to promote more ecological and healthier food choices among tourists. To fill this gap, this paper analyses the impact of different factual appeals including information about taste (placebo), nutrients, carbon footprints and distance of transportation on food choices of tourists at hotel salad buffets. The research pursued a randomised field experiment in two Italian hotels adopting a 4X2 between-group experimental design (appeal content X endorsement). In addition to measuring the actual consumption of salad vegetables by weighting, a short survey was administered on 329 tourists. By comparing effectiveness of persuasion along a continuum of self-benefit vs other-benefit appeals, this experiment finds a higher effectiveness of pure self-benefit appeals stressing healthiness or mixed self/other-benefits stressing local origin, compared to other-benefits that focus on ecological friendliness. These findings are in line with the idea that egoistic and selfish-altruistic motivations dominate in tourism consumption over mere altruistic motivations.
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