Ecological Purchases Made by Managers in Hotel Industry. An Approach of the Main Determining Factors
Lately, there has been an intensification of the concern for environmental protection and development of an ecological attitude and behaviour among the operators in tourism industry. Consequently, ecological purchases have become important components in establishing hotel environmental strategies...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura ASE
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Amfiteatru Economic |
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| Online Access: | https://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2877.pdf |
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| Summary: | Lately, there has been an intensification of the concern for environmental protection and
development of an ecological attitude and behaviour among the operators in tourism industry.
Consequently, ecological purchases have become important components in establishing hotel
environmental strategies and in the customers’ consumption behaviour. Most of the
researchers present this very attitude of the customers regarding the green products and their
intention to buy them. The present research approaches ecological purchases from the hotel
managers’ perspective, by analysing the relationships among them, and the environmental
attitude, environmental problems, and the benefits motivating the managers to make
ecological purchases in 92 hotels in Romania. In this research we used the frequency analysis,
scale reliability, and multiple linear regression analysis (the method of the least squares). The
data were analysed with the help of STATA program, and the results support the research
hypotheses, showing that the influence of the environmental attitude and of the economic
benefits on ecological purchases is important. The results show a significant and positive
relationship among the ecological purchases, the environmental attitude, and the associated
benefits. In addition, the study identifies a negative relationship between the ecological
purchases and the environmental concern. Furthermore, hotel classification has a negative
influence on the ecological purchases made by their managers. The implications, limits, and
future lines of research are also mentioned in this study |
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| ISSN: | 1582-9146 2247-9104 |