Framing behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism consumption: beyond neoliberalism, "nudging" and "green growth"?

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1091-1109

  Hall, C Michael ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

behavioural economics; governance; information deficit; policy action gap; social marketing; systems of provision

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ECOTOURISM; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; NEOLIBERALISM; POLICY APPROACH; PSYCHOLOGY; TOURISM MARKET;

EID: 84888011890     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2013.815764     Document Type: Article

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