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Sustainable Tourism in Europe from Tourists’ Perspectives

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Regardless the recognized importance of sustainable tourism, it still encompasses “grey areas” in what comprehends research, but above all in what concern commitment and application by the different stakeholders. This work attempts to contribute to a better understanding of tourism behavior regarding sustainable tourism. To unveil the answer to this question the latest database from Eurobarometer related to European attitudes toward tourism was used and the choosing behavioral pattern from the 28 countries was assessed.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from FCT—Portugal through research grant (UID/SOC/04521/2019) of the Advance/CSG, ISEG, (UID/SOC/04647/2013) of the CICS.NOVA.UAc and Centre of Applied Economics Studies of the Atlantic (UID/ECO/00685/2016) and Project ACORES-01-0145-FEDER-000017 from AÇORES 2020, through FEDER—European Union.

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    Teresa Borges-Tiago, Osvaldo Silva & Flavio Tiago

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of West Attica, Aigaleo, Greece

    Androniki Kavoura

  2. Department of Business Administration, State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA

    Efstathios Kefallonitis

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Borges-Tiago, T., Silva, O., Tiago, F. (2020). Sustainable Tourism in Europe from Tourists’ Perspectives. In: Kavoura, A., Kefallonitis, E., Theodoridis, P. (eds) Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36126-6_63

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