Business Sustainability: How Does Tourism Compare?
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Moyle, Brent
Ruhanen, Lisa
Bec, Alexandra
Weiler, Betty
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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.
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Sustainability
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10
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4
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© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 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
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Moyle, C-L; Moyle, B; Ruhanen, L; Bec, A; Weiler, B, Business Sustainability: How Does Tourism Compare?, Sustainability, 10 (4), pp. 968-968