Proactive Crises Management Tools: Ecolabel and Green Globe 21 Experiences from New Zealand
This article addresses the theme of crisis management in tourism by adopting a proactive rather than a reactive perspective. As such, it examines ecolabels as one of the proactive mitigation mechanisms with the capacity to contribute to the creation of a more sustainable future. Specifically,
ecolabels are examined in the context of New Zealand with the aim of providing a better understanding of consumer attitudes and levels of awareness. The findings are generated by a questionnaire survey of international and domestic visitors to Wellington and reveal awareness levels of ecolabels
to be small and ecolabel knowledge to be inherently confused. An in-depth examination of the most widely represented ecolabel, Green Globe 21, produced similarly sobering results. However, in the context of previous studies these findings can be regarded as encouraging because the level of
awareness reported by international visitors appears to have increased over the last 2 years. Exploring the notion of "greenwash" as a potential inhibitor to greater ecolabel uptake, the majority of respondents report no distrust, thus suggesting that consumer skepticism of ecolabels may be
overestimated.
Keywords: CONSUMER AWARENESS; ECOLABELS; ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATION; GREEN GLOBE 21; NEW ZEALAND
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 September 2006
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