lnu.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Air travellers' willingness to donate frequent flyer points for charitable purposes: a Scandinavian case study
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Organisation and Entrepreneurship. Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0505-9207
2014 (English)In: Understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility: psychological and behavioural approaches / [ed] Scott A. Cohen, James E.S. Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling, London: Routledge, 2014, 1, p. 59-67Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There exists a considerable body of research showing that air travellers and tourists are generally more unwilling to change behaviour in favour of more environmentally friendly transport modes or fewer journeys, even among environmentally aware travellers (Barr et al,. 2010; McKercher et al,. 2010). As a result, offsetting of emissions has been discussed as an alternative way of dealing with rising emissions from in particular air travel, for which specific consumer interest has been detected (e.g. Gössling et al, 2009; Lu and Shon, 2012; Mair, 2011; McKercher et al., 2010). However, setting aside various systemic and practical problems associated with carbon offsets (e.g. Gössling et al., 2007), voluntary uptake of offsetting purchases has been slow, and generally on the order of a few percent of overall emissions (Gössling et al., 2009; McKercher et al., 2010). Various reasons for this have been presented, including a disbelief in climate change, a belief that reducing emissions is not one’s own responsibility, or that carbon offsetting is not a valid and credible approach to dealing with emissions from aviation (Gössling et al., 2009). In light of this, yet another approach would seek to understand travellers’ willingness to contribute to carbon offsetting or pro-environmental initiatives more generally, i.e. based on measures not involving a direct cost. This chapter presents the results of a study investigating willingness to donate frequent flyer points for charitable purposes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2014, 1. p. 59-67
National Category
Other Social Sciences
Research subject
Tourism
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-38756DOI: 10.4324/9780203771501-5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086967650ISBN: 9780415839372 (print)ISBN: 9781135038311 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-38756DiVA, id: diva2:774500
Available from: 2014-12-23 Created: 2014-12-23 Last updated: 2024-05-23Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Gössling, Stefan

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Gössling, Stefan
By organisation
Department of Organisation and Entrepreneurship
Other Social Sciences

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 188 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf