Committed to conservation: Tourism in developed and developing contexts

Renzo Cordina; Martin J Gannon; Babak Taheri; Fevzi Okumus; Sean Lochrie

doi:10.1002/jtr.2504

Committed to conservation: Tourism in developed and developing contexts

Renzo Cordina, Martin J Gannon, Babak Taheri^*, Fevzi Okumus, Sean Lochrie

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This study investigates differences in tourists’ conservation commitment at developed and developing heritage sites. It examines relationships between conservation commitment and related concepts: cultural motivation, place attachment, and participation. Data was collected from two troglodyte heritage sites: Kandovan, Iran (developing) and Cappadocia, Turkey (developed). 518 survey responses were collected at Kandovan and 627 at Cappadocia. Partial least squares structural equation modelling was employed to perform analysis. Multi-group analysis findings indicate that direct relationships among conservation commitment, cultural motivation, place attachment, and participation were significantly higher in the developing context; encouraging industry managers to use participative feedback to stimulate conservation commitment.

Original language	English
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Tourism Research
Early online date	25 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2504
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 25 Nov 2021

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cultural motivation
place attachment
participation
conservation commitment
developed and developing heritage sites

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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cordina, R., Gannon, M., Taheri, B., Okumus, F., & Lochrie, S. (2021). Committed to conservation: Tourism in developed and developing contexts. International Journal of Tourism Research, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2504, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.2504. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
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