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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.103007
Keywords
Green demarketing; Green reputation; Green restaurants; Benefit association; Skepticism; Dining intention
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With food overconsumption becoming a concern, consumers growing skeptical of companies' green marketing techniques, and the rise of green demarketing strategies. Research shows that when restaurants implement green demarketing strategies focusing on environmental benefits, consumers exhibit lower levels of skepticism and higher dining intentions towards green practices.
Food overconsumption is increasingly a concern even as consumers are growing skeptical of companies' green marketing techniques. Accordingly, green demarketing strategies, which aim to lower consumer demand, have become more prevalent in recent years. Using an online experiment, the current research investigates how green demarketing strategies (vs. green marketing strategy) affect consumers' level of skepticism toward restaurants' green practices and influence their dining intentions toward restaurants. Moreover, this study examines how different benefits (health vs. environment) associated with green practices and restaurants' green reputations (high vs. low) influence the effect of green demarketing (vs. marketing) strategies. The results reveal that although green demarketing may not independently outperform green marketing, when green demarketing was practiced by restaurants with low green reputations to promote environment-associated benefits, consumers exhibited a similar or even lower levels of skepticism and higher dining intentions. This study also provides implications for effective marketing communication in the context of green demarketing.
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