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Collective Impact and Sustainable Tourism

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 12922

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Steve Selin

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Recreation, Parks, and Tourism, Div of Forestry and Natural Resources, West Virginia University
Interests: human dimensions research, sustainable recreation management, collaborative governance, community-based conservation, nature-based tourism
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Prof. Dr. Jinyang Deng

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School of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, PO BOX 6125, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Interests: ecotourism; tourism planning; rural tourism; urban forests
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Achieving global sustainability is complex. It requires that people, organizations, and communities work together across traditional boundaries to achieve shared goals. Tourism scholars have recognized this need to collaborate and have approached the problem from a number of conceptual and methodological perspectives. Unfortunately, there has been little integration of theory, methods, and applications that could accelerate the impact of this work.

This Special Issue aims to discuss how the integrative framework of “collective impact” can contribute to sustainable tourism development and the scholarship of collaborative tourism processes. Introduced in 2011 by Kani and Kramer, collective impact can be defined as, “the commitment of actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem, using a structured form of collaboration.” Collective impact initiatives share common elements including having a common agenda, common progress measures, mutually reinforcing activities, integrated communications, and the engagement of a backbone organization. The collective impact framework has influenced fields as diverse as philanthropy, conservation, social services, education, and public health.

Collective impact thinking is just beginning to permeate the tourism field. For example, Sustainable Tourism International recently convened a “Collective Impact Summit” and the World Tourism Organization’s ten year Sustainable Tourism Programme is titled “Setting the Foundations for Collective Impact. In this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute literature reviews, case studies, research articles, field reports, and innovative research methodologies to understand how collective impact thinking is being integrated into the theory and practice of sustainable tourism development.

Dr. Steven Selin
Dr. Jinyang Deng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Collective impact
  • Sustainable tourism
  • Collaborative governance
  • Community-based tourism
  • Tourism planning
  • Collaborative leadership
  • Adaptive management
  • Public participation geographic information system (PPGIS))
  • Tourism partnerships
  • Scenario planning

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A Study of Consumers’ Intentions to Participate in Responsible Tourism Using Message Framing and Appeals
by Ahyoung Yoon, Daeyoung Jeong, Jinhyung Chon and Ji-Hwan Yoon
Sustainability 2019, 11(3), 865; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11030865 - 07 Feb 2019
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Since responsible tourism (RT) emerged as a critical issue in the tourism literature in the early 2000s, the challenge has been how to encourage consumers to practice RT. In this context, the goal of this study is to examine effective ways to promote [...] Read more.
Since responsible tourism (RT) emerged as a critical issue in the tourism literature in the early 2000s, the challenge has been how to encourage consumers to practice RT. In this context, the goal of this study is to examine effective ways to promote individuals’ RT behavior using message framing and appeals. The present study used campaign advertisements as a stimulus and employed a 2 × 2 factorial design ((message framing: gain framing vs. loss faming) × (appeal: rational appeal vs. emotional appeal)) in the experiment. In addition, the study investigated the moderating impact of involvement on people’s attitude towards advertising and intention to participate in RT. Independent-sample t-tests and a two-way analysis of variance were used to verify the hypotheses. The results of the study revealed that gain-framed messages had a greater influence on individuals’ attitude towards the advertisement and their intention to participate in RT than loss-framed messages in the low-involvement group. Furthermore, rational and emotional appeals had a greater influence on people’s attitude towards the advertisement in the high- and low-involvement groups, respectively. Full article
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Collaborative Processes and Collective Impact in Tourist Rural Villages—Insights from a Comparative Analysis between Argentinian and Italian Cases
by Emilio Chiodo, Héctor Luis Adriani, Fernando Pablo Navarro and Rita Salvatore
Sustainability 2019, 11(2), 432; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11020432 - 15 Jan 2019
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Multi-case-study research conducted in some rural villages of Argentina and Italy is intended to propose a model of analysis and monitoring of the “collaborative processes” which stands behind the tourist enhancement of local assets. Based on the definition of “collective impact”, three main [...] Read more.
Multi-case-study research conducted in some rural villages of Argentina and Italy is intended to propose a model of analysis and monitoring of the “collaborative processes” which stands behind the tourist enhancement of local assets. Based on the definition of “collective impact”, three main issues are analyzed: (1) the shortage of social capital, typical of some contemporary rural areas as a social problem; (2) the commitment of actors from different sectors to the common agenda of tourist development; (3) the structured form of coordination driven by extra-local organizations and programs, aimed at fostering sustainable tourism in rural villages. These issues are developed into key concepts used for the comparative description and analysis of the cases and for the definition of a common model of measurement and monitoring of the ongoing development processes. The main results are synthesized into a bidimensional plot, where the x-axis represents the “integration” dimension and the y-axis the “coordination”. Each village is then represented as a point of the Cartesian plan. The final idea is to use the model to monitor the processes within each different rural village and to measure the changes over time. Full article
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Antecedents for College Students’ Environmentally Responsible Behavior: Implications for Collective Impact and Sustainable Tourism
by Yu Pan and Jian-Guo Liu
Sustainability 2018, 10(6), 2024; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10062024 - 15 Jun 2018
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With the advent of mass tourism, tourism-related environmental problems are often reported in the news media. Tourists’ environmentally responsible behaviors (TERB) are critical for solving tourism environmental problems. This study argues that college students are a critical source of collective impact for tourism [...] Read more.
With the advent of mass tourism, tourism-related environmental problems are often reported in the news media. Tourists’ environmentally responsible behaviors (TERB) are critical for solving tourism environmental problems. This study argues that college students are a critical source of collective impact for tourism sustainability, and examines chained relationships that might determine college student TERB. Five hundred and twenty-five (525) college tourists were surveyed. Structural equation modeling was used to determine the relationships among the variables and the mediating effects. Results confirmed our proposed relationships of chained influences from tourism destination image (as key information) to tourist expectation (as cognition), to perceived quality and value (as experiences), to tourist satisfaction, loyalty, and complaints (as emotional reflection), and finally to TERB. Such results shed light on TERB education and construction, as well as on the collective impact for sustainable tourism. Full article
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