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Enhancing Pro Environmental Behavior at Heritage Sites: The Effect of Place Attachment

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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With growing insight into sustainability issue, the tourists' pro-environmental behavior in cultural heritage sites became a vital topic to discuss. Until now, visitors' environmental behavior at heritage sites has not been sufficiently examined. It has been assumed that individuals with higher levels of attachment to a particular place were more likely to protect this place. Therefore, the current research aims at examining the influence of place attachment on pro-environmental behavior of tourists at the district of Old Cairo. This study considered place attachment as a multidimensional construct including place dependence, place identity, place affect and place social bonding. A structured questionnaire has been used to collect the primary data from a sample of 400 local and foreign visitors at Old Cairo. The findings indicated that place attachment was positively correlated with the pro-environmental behavior of visitors. Practical findings proved also a positive and significant effect of all place attachment sub constructs on pro-environmental behavior at Old Cairo. Finally, this research concludes by discussing managerial implications, along with suggestions for future research.

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10.21608/ijaf.2018.95504

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Pro-environmental Behaviors (PEB), General behavior, site-specific behavior, Place attachment, old Cairo

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Moataz

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Marie

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Heba

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Zaki

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4

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4

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14400

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2018-10-01

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2020-06-13

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2018-10-01

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146

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168

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2636-4255

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2636-4263

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International Academic Journal Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management

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Enhancing Pro Environmental Behavior at Heritage Sites: The Effect of Place Attachment

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23 Jan 2023