Hwang et al., 2005 Yuksel et al., 2010), studies exploring different dimensions of place attachment on tourists’ place-specific pro-environmental behaviours remain in an infancy stage. Gross and Brown, 2008) or as a predictor of customer loyalty (e.g. While several studies have viewed place attachment as an outcome variable predicted by place characteristics and activities (e.g. Furthermore, the relationship which tourists share with national parks as “places” is being recognised to play an important role in influencing their environmental behaviour (Halpenny, in press) but yet remains one of the understudied areas of research.
One of the identified gaps in tourism literature is the need to construct a more robust scale for place attachment by investigating its salient dimensions. The absence of debate about place attachment in tourism has called for an investigation of this socio-psychological construct in the study of tourist behaviour. However, studies investigating this construct in the tourism literature are scant.
There is a plethora of studies on place attachment in environmental psychology and other social science disciplines.
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