Sustainable & Responsible Tourism Scales

8 validated scales · all free to use

Scales for measuring environmental and ethical attitudes and behaviour in tourism. The domain includes the revised New Ecological Paradigm Scale, the Nature Relatedness Scale, sustainable tourism and ecotourism attitudes, green hotel attitude and intention, responsible tourist behaviour, tourist carbon awareness and overtourism perception. Together these cover both the tourist's perspective, such as pro-environmental travel choices, and the community's perspective on crowding and tourism impacts. This is a focused but growing collection; related measures of sustainable consumption, CSR and ethical purchasing are in the Sustainable & Ethical Consumption domain under Marketing.

Other Tourism domains

All Sustainable & Responsible Tourism scales (A–Z)

• Ecotourism Attitudes Scale (EAS)Weaver, D. & Lawton, L. · 2002 · 12 items · α 0.79–0.88

• Green Hotel Attitude and Intention Scale (GHAIS)Han, H., Hsu, L.T.J. & Lee, J.S. · 2009 · 8 items · α 0.87–0.94

• Nature Relatedness Scale (NR-21)Nisbet, E.K., Zelenski, J.M. & Murphy, S.A. · 2009 · 21 items · α 0.84–0.90
• New Ecological Paradigm Scale – Revised (NEP-R)Dunlap, R.E., Van Liere, K.D., Mertig, A.G. & Jones, R.E. · 2000 · 15 items · α 0.70–0.85

• Overtourism Perception Scale (OPS)Koens, K., Postma, A., & Papp, B. · 2018 · 15 items · α 0.78–0.86

• Responsible Tourist Behaviour Scale (RTBS)Lovelock, B. · 2008 · 14 items · α 0.76–0.87

• Sustainable Tourism Attitude Scale (STAS)Choi, H.C. & Sirakaya, E. · 2005 · 30 items · α 0.73–0.88

• Tourist Carbon Awareness Scale (TCAS)Higham, J., Cohen, S.A., Peeters, P., & Gossling, S. · 2013 · 10 items · α 0.78–0.88