Travelling ‘green’: is tourists' happiness at stake?
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...Increasing transport costs as a result of global and national climate policy are not likely to become significant in most parts of the world for many years (Nawjin & Peeters, 2010; OECD & UNEP, 2011)....
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...While there appears to be consensus on the significant role of perceptions (Gössling & Hall, 2006a; Moreno & Becken, 2009; Nawjin & Peeters, 2010; Scott et al., 2007; Scott, Jones et al., 2008), these are insufficiently understood and represent a major research gap in the tourism and climate…...
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...…2004), a large number of journal papers were published recently (Corvo 2010; De Bloom et al. 2010; De Bloom et al. 2009; Filep and Deery 2010; McCabe 2010; Michalkó et al. 2009; Nawijn 2010, 2011a, 2011b; Nawijn et al. 2010; Nawijn and Peeters 2010; Pearce 2009; Sirgy 2010; Sirgy et al. 2011)....
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...Offering people free trips or paying people not to take a vacation may have resulted in different findings as there are signs that restricting travel would affect tourists’ happiness (Nawijn and Peeters 2010)....
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...Translation of happiness statements did not cause insuperable problems (Layard, 2005)....
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...Construct validation studies of convergent and discriminant validity confirmed the use of this scale in measuring the construct of happiness (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999)....
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...This may not seem much in itself, but taking into consideration that all assessed socio-demographic variables explain 7%, and that only as much as 40% of happiness is normally explained by intentional activity (Lyubomirksy et al., 2005), it is certainly a relevant finding....
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...Unemployed people are known to be less happy (Clark et al., 2008; Winkelmann & Winkelmann, 1998)....
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...The findings of a large-scale twin study show that socioeconomic status, educational attainment, family income, marital status and religion only account for about 3% of the variance in happiness (Lykken & Tellegen, 1996)....
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