TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper aims to explore relationships between consumers' sustainable purchasing practices and their related cognitions, evaluations, and beliefs when considering purchases of tourist products or general goods.Design/methodology/approach– “Cognitions” refers to consumers' familiarity with the concept of “environmentally‐friendly”, their “evaluations” are considerations of the importance of responsible practices, and “beliefs” are convictions of the effects of buying environmentally‐friendly products. Data were collected by questionnaires distributed to convenience samples of 142 passers by on streets close to museums, parks, and other recreational facilities.Findings– The cognitive, evaluative, and belief dimensions were interrelated and supposedly reflect positive attitudes and/or motivations towards sustainability. These “inclinations‐to‐act variables” were positively related to the appreciation of sustainability in daily purchases, vacation purchases, and tourism provider profiles. The importance of history and culture in relation to tourism purchases was also examined. Sustainability orientation in daily purchases also correlated to vacation purchases and appreciation of tourism providers with sustainability‐oriented profiles.Research limitations/implications– The study used a small convenience sample and did not measure actual purchasing behavior. Future research should explore the relation between the variables examined in this paper and actual purchasing behavior in a larger random sample of the general population.Originality/value– Previous related research involved respondents on vacation travel or as non‐representative samples. This study demonstrates relationships between consumers' sustainable purchasing practices of tourist products or general goods and their related cognitions, evaluations, and beliefs when sampling from populations in general.
VL  - 67
IS  - 4
SN  - 1660-5373
DO  - 10.1108/16605371211277812
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/16605371211277812
AU  - Pereira Ester M.V.
AU  - Mykletun Reidar J.
AU  - Hippolyte Camilla
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Sustainability, daily practices and vacation purchasing: are they related?
T2  - Tourism Review
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 40
EP  - 54
Y2  - 2024/09/20
ER  -