Xu, FeiFei (2014) Modelling attitudes to nature, tourism and sustainable development in national parks: A survey of visitors in China and the UK. Tourism Management, 45 . pp. 142-158. ISSN 0261-5177
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Abstract
This research undertook a visitor survey in two protected areas in different cultural contexts, namely China and
the UK, to explore whether the value a person attaches to the environment influences their attitude towards
sustainable tourism development in national parks. Structural equation models were developed with data from
597 and 368 questionnaires collected in Jiuzhaigou National Scenic Area, China and the New Forest National
Park, UK respectively. The results suggested that anthropocentric or ecocentric values significantly influence
people’s attitudes to tourism and sustainable development. The same structured causal relationship was found in
both samples, between people’s attitudes towards the natural environment, conservation and tourism in a
national park context.
| Keywords: | anthropocentric, ecocentric, national park, sustainable development, environmental attitudes |
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| Subjects: | N Business and Administrative studies > N840 International Tourism N Business and Administrative studies > N800 Tourism, Transport and Travel |
| Divisions: | Lincoln International Business School |
| ID Code: | 32131 |
| Deposited On: | 25 Jul 2018 14:37 |
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