Key scholarly contributions linking sustainable tourism to the SDGs outcomes
| Authors | Key findings | SDG goals |
|---|---|---|
| Antwi et al. (2025) | In sustainable tourism, residents' mindfulness enhances their hospitality and reduces negative stereotypes toward tourists by fostering greater self-transcendence and atonements, especially when they can take the tourists' perspective | SDG 11, SDG 16, SDG 17 |
| Osman and Brown (2024) | Gender and religion significantly influence the travel experiences of female Muslim tourists, highlighting the need for destinations to support gender equity and cultural sensitivity to promote socially sustainable tourism | SDG 5, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 16 |
| Luu (2024) | Customer green involvement positively influences tourism employees' green creative behaviour through the dual mediation of green role identity and green creative self-efficacy, with organisational green culture moderating these effects | SDG 8, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 17 |
| Buzinde and Caterina-Knorr (2023) | Tourism development policies in Kenya and Rwanda partially align with inclusive development goals, highlighting gaps in participatory processes, ecological justice, and wealth redistribution, calling for tourism to support decolonial, equitable, and locally defined development approaches | SDG 10, SDG 13, SDG 16, SDG 8 |
| Judge et al. (2021) | Lack of transparency and misleading advertising by South Africa's BBWW operators undermine ecological sustainability and create a conflict between tourist expectations and legal compliance | SDG 14, SDG 12, SDG 8, SDG 13 |
| Seyfi et al. (2022) | Sanctions, though intended as a peacebuilding tool, have severely undermined the peacebuilding capacity and the development of the tourism industry in Iran due to their psychological, sectoral, and societal impacts, as well as mobility restrictions | SDG 8, SDG 16, SDG 17 |
| Tritto (2020) | Environmental management practices (EMPs) in heritage tourism accommodations are shaped by hotel type, with boutique and guesthouse hotels adopting blended technological and traditional methods. At the same time, customer preferences can negatively impact EMP adoption | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 8 |
| Kang and Nicholls (2021) | A positive correlation exists between travellers' pro-environmental attitudes and their willingness to pay more for green lodging, with income significantly influencing them | SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 8 |
| Taş Gürsoy (2020) | Horse-drawn carriages reflect complex ethical, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of tourism, requiring inclusive, multispecies sustainability approaches and regulatory frameworks that involve both public and civil stakeholders | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 15, SDG 16 |
| Hu et al. (2019) | Effective water demand management (WDM) in tourism, particularly in Singapore's hotel sector, requires evolving and increasingly complex collaboration among diverse stakeholders to support sustainable destination development | SDG 6, SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 17 |
| Tuan (2020) | Environmentally specific servant leadership enhances tourism employees' green creativity through green role identity and green-related resource- and challenge-seeking behaviours, but not through green task-demand-reducing behaviour | SDG 8, SDG 12, SDG 13 |
| Kuo et al. (2018) | Innovative, stewardship-based differentiation strategies, grounded in personal values, community engagement, and eco-tourism, are critical for sustaining B&B businesses facing oversupply and homogeneity | SDG 8, SDG 11, SDG 12 |
| Tuan (Tuan Luu) (2018) | Corporate social responsibility (CSR) positively influences tourists' and employees' environmental citizenship behaviours, with mutual reinforcement between customer CBE and employee OCBE, and environmentally specific servant leadership enhancing CSR's impact on employee OCBE | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 17 |
| Lane and Kastenholz (2015) | Rural tourism has evolved significantly but now faces challenges such as competition, governance gaps, and societal changes; a research-led, holistic, and professionally managed “New Generation Rural Tourism” is needed to ensure sustainability and destination development | SDG 8, SDG 11, SDG 12 |
| Gatt and Schranz (2015) | Non-intrusive, low-cost water-saving hotel retrofits can significantly reduce water consumption, enhancing sustainability in tourism-heavy regions | SDG 6, SDG 12, SDG 13 |
| Authors | Key findings | SDG goals |
|---|---|---|
| In sustainable tourism, residents' mindfulness enhances their hospitality and reduces negative stereotypes toward tourists by fostering greater self-transcendence and atonements, especially when they can take the tourists' perspective | SDG 11, SDG 16, SDG 17 | |
| Gender and religion significantly influence the travel experiences of female Muslim tourists, highlighting the need for destinations to support gender equity and cultural sensitivity to promote socially sustainable tourism | SDG 5, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 16 | |
| Customer green involvement positively influences tourism employees' green creative behaviour through the dual mediation of green role identity and green creative self-efficacy, with organisational green culture moderating these effects | SDG 8, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 17 | |
| Tourism development policies in Kenya and Rwanda partially align with inclusive development goals, highlighting gaps in participatory processes, ecological justice, and wealth redistribution, calling for tourism to support decolonial, equitable, and locally defined development approaches | SDG 10, SDG 13, SDG 16, SDG 8 | |
| Lack of transparency and misleading advertising by South Africa's BBWW operators undermine ecological sustainability and create a conflict between tourist expectations and legal compliance | SDG 14, SDG 12, SDG 8, SDG 13 | |
| Sanctions, though intended as a peacebuilding tool, have severely undermined the peacebuilding capacity and the development of the tourism industry in Iran due to their psychological, sectoral, and societal impacts, as well as mobility restrictions | SDG 8, SDG 16, SDG 17 | |
| Environmental management practices (EMPs) in heritage tourism accommodations are shaped by hotel type, with boutique and guesthouse hotels adopting blended technological and traditional methods. At the same time, customer preferences can negatively impact EMP adoption | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 8 | |
| A positive correlation exists between travellers' pro-environmental attitudes and their willingness to pay more for green lodging, with income significantly influencing them | SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 8 | |
| Horse-drawn carriages reflect complex ethical, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of tourism, requiring inclusive, multispecies sustainability approaches and regulatory frameworks that involve both public and civil stakeholders | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 15, SDG 16 | |
| Effective water demand management (WDM) in tourism, particularly in Singapore's hotel sector, requires evolving and increasingly complex collaboration among diverse stakeholders to support sustainable destination development | SDG 6, SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 17 | |
| Environmentally specific servant leadership enhances tourism employees' green creativity through green role identity and green-related resource- and challenge-seeking behaviours, but not through green task-demand-reducing behaviour | SDG 8, SDG 12, SDG 13 | |
| Innovative, stewardship-based differentiation strategies, grounded in personal values, community engagement, and eco-tourism, are critical for sustaining B&B businesses facing oversupply and homogeneity | SDG 8, SDG 11, SDG 12 | |
| Corporate social responsibility (CSR) positively influences tourists' and employees' environmental citizenship behaviours, with mutual reinforcement between customer CBE and employee OCBE, and environmentally specific servant leadership enhancing CSR's impact on employee OCBE | SDG 11, SDG 12, SDG 13, SDG 17 | |
| Rural tourism has evolved significantly but now faces challenges such as competition, governance gaps, and societal changes; a research-led, holistic, and professionally managed “New Generation Rural Tourism” is needed to ensure sustainability and destination development | SDG 8, SDG 11, SDG 12 | |
| Non-intrusive, low-cost water-saving hotel retrofits can significantly reduce water consumption, enhancing sustainability in tourism-heavy regions | SDG 6, SDG 12, SDG 13 |
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