Recreational specialization and the marine-based conservation behaviour intention of recreational divers in Hong Kong.

Autor: Zhang K; Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: kezhang@s.eduhk.hk., Lam TWL; Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: twllam@eduhk.hk., Ma ATH; Department of Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: athma@eduhk.hk., Fok L; Department of Science and Environmental Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: lfok@eduhk.hk., Cheung LTO; York Business School, York St. John University, Lord Mayor's Walk, York YO31 7EX, UK. Electronic address: t.cheung@yorksj.ac.uk.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Science of the total environment [Sci Total Environ] 2023 Nov 15; Vol. 899, pp. 165664. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165664
Abstrakt: This study examined divers' recreational specialization, pro-environmental attitudes, and marine-based conservation behaviour intentions. A questionnaire-based data collection approach was used to survey 398 divers who visited popular diving sites in Hong Kong by employing structural equation modelling to determine the potential relationships among the proposed variables. The results showed a statistically positive relationship between divers' recreational specialization and their pro-environmental attitudes, along with a statistically valid relationship between divers' recreational specialization and their marine-based conservation behaviour intentions. However, divers' pro-environmental attitudes were not statistically significant with their marine-based conservation behaviour intentions; thus, the discrepancy regarding different research findings between the current and previous studies was further discussed. In particular, our findings confirmed that recreational specialization could be a reliable predictor of divers' pro-environmental attitudes and marine-based conservation behaviour intentions to fill the research gaps regarding scuba diving-based nature tourism in Hong Kong. Consequently, management implications and recommendations were presented in accordance with the development of marine environmental conservation and sustainable scuba diving tourism in Hong Kong.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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