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Journal article
Business Sustainability: How Does Tourism Compare?
Sustainability, Vol.10(4), pp.1-15
04/2018
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Abstract
This study aims to empirically compare the adoption of business sustainability amongst 291 randomly-selected tourism and non-tourism businesses in New South Wales, Australia. Tourism businesses were found to be more committed to environmentally-sustainable practices than other types of businesses with there being a clear correlation with their ability to learn and adapt. This contradicts criticisms in the literature that tourism businesses are slow adopters of sustainability. This study highlights the need for further research into why tourism businesses in New South Wales, Australia, are reporting higher levels of performance in terms of adopting environmental values than other businesses in contradiction to the general perception of tourism businesses in the literature.
Details
- Title
- Business Sustainability: How Does Tourism Compare?
- Creators
- Char-lee Moyle - Queensland University of TechnologyBrent Moyle - University of the Sunshine CoastLisa Ruhanen - University of QueenslandAlexandra Bec - University of the Sunshine CoastBetty Weiler - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Sustainability, Vol.10(4), pp.1-15
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Grant note
- The authors would like to thank the University of Queensland School of Tourism for providing seed funding for this scoping research.
- Identifiers
- 991012926988802368
- Copyright
- © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Academic Unit
- School of Business and Tourism; Office of the Vice Chancellor; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Management
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article