Sustainable Consumer Behaviour and the Environment

This book advances the tourism and hospitality industry’s contribution to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 of responsible consumption and production. It enables a collaboration platform across these sectors in pursuit of common goals for promoting sustainable consumption and environmental protection.

Sustainable consumer behavior is a principal topic in the current tourism and hospitality industry as many types of unsustainable consumptions pose a threat to society and the natural environment. Sustainable consumer behavior is a vital facet of protecting the environment that ultimately benefits the entire society. Individuals’ irresponsible consumption activities are undeniably considerable elicitors of harmful environmental, social, economic, and economic impacts throughout the world. Comprehending sustainable consumer behavior is of utmost importance for the tourism and hospitality industry to design innovative and responsible strategies to minimize the negative consequences of tourism.

The scope of this book includes various sustainable consumptions, productions, and consumer behaviors in a variety of tourism and hospitality sectors and will be of great value to students, scholars, and researchers interested in areas such as sustainable consumer behaviour, hospitality, sustainable development, and tourism management.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Heesup Han is Professor in the College of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Sejong University, Korea. His research interests include sustainable consumer behaviour, green tourism and hospitality products, sustainable development, slow tourism, and destination marketing. His papers have been selected as the most downloaded and read articles in many top-tier tourism and hospitality journals. Heesup Han is a 2019 and 2020 highly cited researcher (HCR) of the world in social science (identified by the Web of Science Group - Clarivate).