STUDY ON GREEN TOURISM CONSUMPTIONS OF CHINESE TOURIST WITH DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTION

Gu Hui-min, Gao Jinging, Guo Fan, Li Shan

2011

Abstract

This study measures the environmental attitudes of Chinese tourists by "New Environmental Paradigm "(NEP) Scale, then investigate the relationship between the tourists' environmental attitudes and green tourism consumption behavior. This paper classifies Chinese tourists into three categories: the harmonious activists, the anthropocentrism and the ecocentrism, The results indicate that tourists holding different environmental attitudes show significant difference in certain basic statistical variables and fulfillment degree of green tourism behavior. There is a contradiction between the environmental attitude and green tourism behavior of the anthropocentrism.

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Hui-min G., Jinging G., Fan G. and Shan L. (2011). STUDY ON GREEN TOURISM CONSUMPTIONS OF CHINESE TOURIST WITH DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTION . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: SSTS, (ICEIS 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-53-9, pages 457-468. DOI: 10.5220/0003583904570468


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@conference{ssts11,
author={Gu Hui-min and Gao Jinging and Guo Fan and Li Shan},
title={STUDY ON GREEN TOURISM CONSUMPTIONS OF CHINESE TOURIST WITH DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: SSTS, (ICEIS 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={457-468},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003583904570468},
isbn={978-989-8425-53-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: SSTS, (ICEIS 2011)
TI - STUDY ON GREEN TOURISM CONSUMPTIONS OF CHINESE TOURIST WITH DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT PERCEPTION
SN - 978-989-8425-53-9
AU - Hui-min G.
AU - Jinging G.
AU - Fan G.
AU - Shan L.
PY - 2011
SP - 457
EP - 468
DO - 10.5220/0003583904570468