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Rojan Baniya is a doctoral student and graduate fellow at the Department of Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management at the University of Florida. His research interests include corporate social responsibility, tourism marketing, and sustainability of the tourism and hospitality industry.

Yuting An is a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the Department of Tourism, Hospitality & Event Management at the University of Florida. Her research interests include tourist mobility, the tourist decision-making process, and destination management.

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The increasing positive sentiments towards the green hotel is not getting converted to green hotel selection, which is resulting in attitude-behavior gaps. So, the researchers are constantly looking for ways to influence visitors to adopt green hotels. In this case, this study takes a noble path to analyze whether sentiments of visitors towards green hotels can be associated with intention to select the green hotel and use green hotels. The study conducts a quantitative study of 211 hotel visitors through MTurk to find answers. The finding shows that the visitors have slightly above average positive sentiments towards green hotels. And the sentiments of visitors towards green hotels predicts, selection intention of green hotels and use of green hotels, in fact, latter better. Also, when it is related to green hotels, visitors mostly converse about price/budges, sustainability, and facilities/convenience. Both the practical and theoretical implications of the study have been provided.

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Visitors’ Sentiments Predicting Purchase Intention and Sustainable Consumption of Green Hotels

The increasing positive sentiments towards the green hotel is not getting converted to green hotel selection, which is resulting in attitude-behavior gaps. So, the researchers are constantly looking for ways to influence visitors to adopt green hotels. In this case, this study takes a noble path to analyze whether sentiments of visitors towards green hotels can be associated with intention to select the green hotel and use green hotels. The study conducts a quantitative study of 211 hotel visitors through MTurk to find answers. The finding shows that the visitors have slightly above average positive sentiments towards green hotels. And the sentiments of visitors towards green hotels predicts, selection intention of green hotels and use of green hotels, in fact, latter better. Also, when it is related to green hotels, visitors mostly converse about price/budges, sustainability, and facilities/convenience. Both the practical and theoretical implications of the study have been provided.