Nachhaltigkeit; Konsum; Überzeugung; Vertrauen; Hotel; Marketing
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The project comprises two phases and follows a level-, structure-, and a comparative-oriented approach by focussing on the demand side of tourism in relation to sustainable hotel booking intentions using an extended model of Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour. In the first phase, the project aims to determine the structure of the relationship amongst a range of independent variables and the target behaviour intention to book a sustainable hotel. Here, the aim is to enhance the power of explanation (portion of variance) of the intention to book sustainable hotels and to compare the structure between different countries (structure-oriented comparative approach, most similar systems design). An online survey will be administered to 1000 residents in Switzerland, Germany and in the USA. The project will compare the structural relationships between the independent variables and booking intentions in these three target markets, proposing structural similarity. Survey results will be compiled for standard empirical analysis, including segmentations, regressions and multi-group Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The most important sustainability benefit attributes to influence desire and intention to book will be used in the second phase of the project. In the second phase, the aim is to evaluate how differently formulated messages about sustainable hotel benefits could influence tourists’ booking intentions by exploring how to advance the intention to book sustainable hotels using a level-oriented approach. A scope will be placed on “standard amenity” benefits versus “sustainability benefits” and on affective aspects, such as anticipated emotion and trust. An online experiment will be conducted to compare the persuasive effects of different message types to communicate sustainable hotel characteristics that are emotion, trust and benefit based. The experiments will be administered to 800 residents per country in Switzerland, Germany and USA. Project results are expected to provide two innovative contributions. (1) The outcomes will clarify understanding about how message design in advertising relates to the emotional parts of purchase intentions and general decision-making in relation to beliefs about the target behaviour of booking a sustainable hotel. The study is expected to show that intention to book a sustainable hotel can be influenced by unconventional marketing and communication messages, which are emotion-triggering and relate to specific of sustainable hotel benefit attributes (that make people feel good about their booking and therefore more likely to desire it and engage in it). This will provide an insight about what tourists really value in sustainable hotels, and how these translate into booking intentions. (2) The second innovative aspect of the project is its contribution to current theoretical gaps and practical challenges about how to reach low to high sustainability affine consumers by marketing sustainable hotels to them using message design that aims for high trust levels and positive anticipated emotions. This will help understand how to best influence decision-making related to sustainable hotels, and validate the applicability of the TPB model across different tourist markets. The practical outcome of the research is expected to be highly useful, because it will show the most relevant and effective marketing and communication messages according to sustainability attributes that can be used to target new tourist markets, which can help the sector reach potential new clients, especially from the mass segments which are otherwise low-sustainability affine. This will help expand the demand for sustainable tourism products.