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Customers Intention Towards Green Hotel Practice in Malaysia

Customers Intention Towards Green Hotel Practice in Malaysia

Description

Tourism industry in Malaysia has experienced continued growth due to Malaysia’s beautiful natural assets over decades.
Tourism industry in Malaysia has experienced continued growth due to Malaysia’s beautiful natural assets over decades. Tourism is largely depending on the clean environment, so the issues of operational hotel waste cannot be ignored. It is expected that customer behaviour while staying at the hotel can produce tonnes of waste. As a result, becoming a green customer is a step to cope with this problem. Green customers are people who committed about going green that will help to create a better environment. This concept is widely used in other countries but “limited” in Malaysia especially on green customers’ intention. Therefore, the theory of planned behaviour has been tested to define which factor is influencing the customer intention to practice green while staying at the hotel. This paper aimed to define which measurement items represent the factors of (attitude, subjective norm, perceived behaviour control and overall image). Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) is used to validate the measurement model. The questionnaires are distributed and 210 respondents are received. The respondents are focussed to hotel customers in Malaysia. Data analysing is using Analysis of Moments Structures (AMOS) to confirm the unidimensional, validity and reliability for measurement model. Findings indicate most respondents perceived positive perception toward participating in green campaign favourably affect to practice green while staying at the hotel while the other factors were found no significantly generalise the finding. This highlighted the finding as to the emerging of group green customer in Malaysia still a long way to go. 

Author
1. Kai Chen Goh (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
2. Nur Syahidah Said (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
3. Hui Hwang Goh (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
4. Ta Wee Seow (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
5. Sulzakimin Mohamed (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
6. Md Asrul Nasid Masrom (Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia)
Journal
Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics
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