Business sustainability: How does tourism compare?

Char-lee Moyle; Brent D Moyle; L Ruhanen; Alexandra Bec; B Weiler

doi:10.3390/su10040968

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Business sustainability: How does tourism compare?

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Business sustainability: How does tourism compare?

Char-lee Moyle, Brent D Moyle, L Ruhanen, Alexandra Bec and B Weiler

Sustainability, Vol.10(4), 968

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10040968

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Abstract

adaptability

indicators

learning

sustainability

tourism businesses

This study aims to empirically compare the adoption of business sustainability amongst 291 randomly-selected tourism and non-tourism businesses in New South Wales, Australia. Tourism businesses were found to be more committed to environmentally-sustainable practices than other types of businesses with there being a clear correlation with their ability to learn and adapt. This contradicts criticisms in the literature that tourism businesses are slow adopters of sustainability. This study highlights the need for further research into why tourism businesses in New South Wales, Australia, are reporting higher levels of performance in terms of adopting environmental values than other businesses in contradiction to the general perception of tourism businesses in the literature. © 2018 by the authors.

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Title: Business sustainability: How does tourism compare?
Authors: Char-lee Moyle (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Brent D Moyle (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
L Ruhanen (Author) - University of Queensland
Alexandra Bec (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
B Weiler (Author) - Southern Cross University
Publication details: Sustainability, Vol.10(4), 968; 15
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.3390/su10040968
ISSN: 2071-1050
Copyright note: Copyright © 2018 The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451430602621
Output Type: Journal article

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