This page has only limited features, please log in for full access.

Mrs. Verena Tauber
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Basic Info


Research Keywords & Expertise

0 Sustainability
0 Sustainable Tourism
0 Tourism
0 Consumer Behaviour
0 destination development

Honors and Awards

The user has no records in this section


Career Timeline

The user has no records in this section.


Short Biography

The user biography is not available.
Following
Followers
Co Authors
The list of users this user is following is empty.
Following: 0 users

Feed

Journal article
Published: 27 July 2021 in Sustainability
Reads 0
Downloads 0

Research on sustainability and sustainable tourism has thus far avoided evaluating how tourists actually understand these terms. Instead, scholars have focused on the supply side, presuming a common and precise understanding of sustainability and sustainable tourism among all tourists and stakeholders. This study shows that most consumers link sustainability only to environmental issues, and understand sustainability differently from sustainable tourism. It finds significant interpersonal and intercultural differences regarding consumers’ conceptualisations of sustainability. The results illustrate that empirical research methodology for conceptualising consumers’ sustainability understanding frequently is doubtful or weak. This research exposes tourists’ limited understanding of sustainability, and helps tackle widespread scepticism about the effectiveness of sustainable tourism, by creating better informed sustainable tourism marketing.

ACS Style

Thomas Bausch; Tilman Schröder; Verena Tauber; Bernard Lane. Sustainable Tourism: The Elephant in the Room. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8376 .

AMA Style

Thomas Bausch, Tilman Schröder, Verena Tauber, Bernard Lane. Sustainable Tourism: The Elephant in the Room. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8376.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Thomas Bausch; Tilman Schröder; Verena Tauber; Bernard Lane. 2021. "Sustainable Tourism: The Elephant in the Room." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8376.