A Comparative Study Of Behavioral Responses Of Green Hotel Customers In Iran And A European Country
Subject Areas : Creative City Design
Majid Alizadeh
1
,
Sina Nematizadeh
2
,
Hassan Esmailpour
3
1 - Department of Business Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Business Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of Business Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: Sustainable Development, Green marketing, Green Consumer, green hotel,
Abstract :
A descriptive-survey method was used in this study.The statistical population consists of selected green hotel customers in Iran and a European green hotel. Using the Cochran formula and considering the unlimited population size, 384 people were selected by convenience sampling It was selected from the customers of hotels in Iran and Austria. The data of the study was collected by distributing questionnaires among them, and their reliability and validity were also confirmed. Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and PLS 3 Smart software were used for data analysis. According to the ANOVA test, the level of significance for brand loyalty, brand preference, purchase intention, awareness, advertising, and hotel customers' responses regarding the importance of environmental conservation differs between Iran and Europe, with a significance level less than 0.05 and ther are significant difference between domestic and foreign respondents and the average level of behavioral response and its components, ecological or environmental literacy among green hotel customers in Iran and Europe, differs. Based on the results of path analysis , the behavioral response variable has the highest correlation with the performance variable (path coefficient of 0.884), followed by the relationship between integrated marketing and corporate green image (path coefficient of 0.823) in second place and the relationship between behavioral Response and performance (path coefficient of 0.781) in third place. After these, the biggest positive relationship is observed between mixed marketing and performance (path coefficient of 0.721 ) and trust and behavioral response (path coefficient of 0.695).