A study of consumers' intentions to participate in responsible tourism using message framing and appeals

Ahyoung Yoon, Daeyoung Jeong, Jinhyung Chon, Ji Hwan Yoon

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    Abstract

    Since responsible tourism (RT) emerged as a critical issue in the tourism literature in the early 2000s, the challenge has been how to encourage consumers to practice RT. In this context, the goal of this study is to examine effective ways to promote individuals' RT behavior using message framing and appeals. The present study used campaign advertisements as a stimulus and employed a 2 × 2 factorial design ((message framing: gain framing vs. loss faming) × (appeal: rational appeal vs. emotional appeal)) in the experiment. In addition, the study investigated the moderating impact of involvement on people's attitude towards advertising and intention to participate in RT. Independent-sample t-tests and a two-way analysis of variance were used to verify the hypotheses. The results of the study revealed that gain-framed messages had a greater influence on individuals' attitude towards the advertisement and their intention to participate in RT than loss-framed messages in the low-involvement group. Furthermore, rational and emotional appeals had a greater influence on people's attitude towards the advertisement in the high- and low-involvement groups, respectively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number865
    JournalSustainability (Switzerland)
    Volume11
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Feb 7

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) grant (No. 2017R1A2B4008866) funded by the Korea government (MEST).

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2019 by the authors.

    Keywords

    • Appeals
    • Intention to participate in responsible tourism
    • Involvement
    • Message framing
    • Responsible tourism

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Geography, Planning and Development
    • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
    • Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
    • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
    • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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