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This chapter provides an in-depth examination of the role that sustainable tourism plays in fostering a more environmentally and economically sustainable global economy. It delves into the advantages, disadvantages, and potential of sustainable tourism, emphasizing environmental conservation, societal inclusion, and economic progress. The shift towards sustainable tourism underscores the importance of minimizing negative impacts while maximizing positive outcomes for the environment, local communities, and cultural heritage. It underscores the necessity of balancing economic development, environmental preservation, and social well-being. Sustainable tourism encourages environmentally friendly practices, promotes renewable energy, and supports local businesses, thereby driving both environmental protection and economic growth. Challenges and opportunities are identified, necessitating innovative solutions for a sustainable tourism model. Effective policies and collaboration among stakeholders can address issues like excessive tourism impacts and ensure equitable distribution of benefits to local populations. Technology and community involvement play crucial roles in fostering sustainability and responsible travel. The chapter emphasizes energy efficiency, waste management, and transportation enhancements, while recognizing digital platforms’ role in promoting informed travel decisions. Future trends focus on climate adaptation, responsible tourism, and circular economies. Thus, a triple bottom-line approach integrating economic, social, and environmental considerations, alongside resource management, technology, community engagement, and cultural preservation, emerges as essential for advancing sustainable tourism practices.

Can digital financial inclusion (DFI) as an emerging and innovative financial service encourage economic development?

Based on a Bayesian macroeconomic investigation framework, this research study presents the level of internet growth as a threshold variable and examines the influence of DFI on economic development based on state panel data from 2008 to 2021 in India.

The outcome of DFI on economic development through various mediation models. The results illustrate that DFI growth substantially contributes to economic development.

Encouraging small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurship and motivating populations’ utilization are two significant networks through which DFI progress affects economic growth.

The purpose of this study is to present a systematic analysis using a meta-analytical approach regarding the antecedents and consequences of the technology acceptance model (TAM) in the retail context. This paper also analysed five different theoretical models using meta-analytic structural equation modelling. Finally, this paper investigated possible moderators on the relationships between TAM constructs.

This manuscript is conceptual as it is based on a literature review. In this line, this paper analysed 85 articles by a meta-analysis that generated 431 effect sizes and identified 8 antecedents and 2 consequences of the TAM construct.

All antecedents and consequences promoted significant effect sizes with TAM constructs. In the moderation analysis, this paper determined that top journals and countries with a high human development index promoted more substantial effect sizes in the relationship between perceived usefulness (PU) and behavioural intention, and PU and attitude towards system use, respectively. About the theoretical models tested, this paper found that the antecedents enjoyment and trust represent the best fit in TAM models, which affects attitude and behavioural intentions.

This research tested the impact of TAM’s antecedents, consequences and moderators in the retail sector and presented important results via a meta-analytical review. This meta-analysis contributes to the marketing literature by offering a set of empirical generalisations, including relationship coefficients and calculated fail-safe numbers.

This study aims to combine two theories, the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the Norm Activation Model (NAM), to investigate the relationship between the awareness of reducing single-use plastic waste's environmental cost and the behaviour to limit the use of single-use plastic products (SUPPs) by FPT university students.

Quantitative research methodologies were employed on a sample of 506 university students. The survey data was then examined using SPSS, SPSS AMOS and SmartPLS software.

The overarching conclusion of the study is that awareness of reducing single-use plastic waste's environmental cost has a positive impact on FPT university students' behaviour to reduce their use of single-use plastic products. Another intriguing discovery is how socialisation of responsibility affects pro-environmental behaviour through the interplay between personal norms, subjective norms and behavioural intention.

This study on the relationship between SUPP low-consumption awareness and behaviour and mediating factors is a necessary foundation for future studies related to changing the behaviour of students using SUPPs. That will also be a solid foundation for practical plans to change behaviour using SUPPs through communication campaigns to increase awareness.

This study investigates the digital competence (DC) of undergraduate students, considering three key dimensions: use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) resources, knowledge about ICT resources, and attitude towards ICT. We also examined the relationship between these aspects in order to build a DC assessment framework.

A structured questionnaire was administered to students from several universities in Vietnam in order to assess their DC. A PLS analysis was conducted based on data from 551 valid responses.

Statistical analyses showed that the DC of students was quite low. The findings certify that knowledge of ICT resources is a total intermediate variable in the impact of attitude towards ICT on the use of ICT resources by students.

Our findings provide important implications for policymakers and teachers' insights for authorities, universities, and scholars to develop strategies for DC of students in higher education.

This study is the first to explore the DC assessment framework for students in higher education in an emerging market, Vietnam.

One of the simplest ways to improve the profitability of a business is by saving energy. Responding to recent calls to investigate the mechanism leading to individuals’ energy-saving behaviors in the workplace, this study aims to investigate combining person-environment (PE) fit theory with normative factors to understand employees’ decisions to engage in energy-saving activities.

The results of an online survey reveal that person-organization fit, person-job fit and moral norm significantly affect employees’ energy-saving intention.

Furthermore, the findings show that moral norm is the strongest predictor of employees’ willingness to save energy. The results also demonstrate the interrelated relationships between PE fit and normative factors.

The results contribute overall to a greater understanding of energy-saving practices in the organizational context. Apart from the theoretical contributions, the findings of the current investigation offer valuable practical insights for organizations and policymakers to promote energy conservation practices.

Mobile banking (or m-banking) has become an inseparable part of the modern finance model. Its success relies on customers’ affective responses and behavioral decisions. This study aims to examine the important determinants of positive word-of-mouth (POW) toward m-banking among older consumers.

A quantitative approach was applied in examining a proposed model with data obtained from 358 respondents based on a Web-based survey from Vietnam using a questionnaire.

It was determined that attitude, usage intention and satisfaction are the fundamental facilitators of POW in m-banking. Furthermore, perceived usefulness, ease of use and trust are the main predictors of attitude and usage intention, and epistemic value, conditional value, social value and technological value are the primary motivators of usage intention. Ease of use and trust positively affect perceived usefulness. Usage intention fosters higher levels of satisfaction. This study affirms the insignificant effects of ease of use and hedonic value on usage intention as well as satisfaction on attitude.

The findings are insightful for developers to concentrate on how to promote cognitive, affective and behavioral responses among old consumers in m-banking. Marketers should boost value perceptions and trust as the prerequisite underlying judgment and behaviors toward m-banking.

This work validates the synergistic model of POW among older consumers in m-banking by combining the technology acceptance model (TAM) and theory of consumption values (TCV). Thus, it would increase the exploratory power of the theoretical base toward m-banking and in an emerging market.

In recent years, the global focus has increasingly shifted toward the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) due to growing concerns about environmental sustainability and the imperative of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The transportation sector, a significant contributor to air pollution and climate change, faces increasing pressure to embrace EVs as a solution. However, the resistance exhibited by customers toward adopting new technology poses a substantial obstacle to the widespread adoption of EVs. Drawing on the link between theory of reasoned action (TRA) and self-congruity theory, this research aims to determine the factors that affect the customer intention toward EV.

The research conducts a questionnaire collecting 950 respondents from the Egyptian market. The research used primary quantitative data from online and self-administered questionnaires.

The findings indicated that green trust, price sensitivity and reliability have a positive impact on customer’s intention. However, self-image congruence was not affecting customer intention. For the moderating role of financial self-efficacy, it is affecting the relationship between price sensitivity and customer’s purchase intentions toward EV.

This research will expand the theory by conceptualizing its abstract notions through research variables and implementing them in the Egyptian market. Furthermore, it links the two distinct theories. This knowledge can be utilized by policymakers and stakeholders to expedite the adoption of EVs in the Egyptian market.

This study presents a conceptual framework for managers and policymakers about the factors that affect the customer to buy EVs, since the international organizations emphasize eco-friendly transportation systems.

The purpose of this paper is to explain how financial transparency affect the level of business innovation. The study is based on innovation level in European companies from STOXX Europe 600 index. The authors test three hypotheses about accounting conservatism, earning management and timeliness of financial information disclosure and their impact to the innovation level.

Data from a sample of 316 European firms spanning the years 2014–2020 are used to test the model using panel data and multiple regressions feasible generalized least squares (FGLS). The results withstand a battery of robustness tests, including other measures of earnings management and endogeneity tests including generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations and sub-sample analysis.

The regression findings show that accounting conservatism negatively influences the level of innovation of a company. This implies that accounting conservatism breeds myopia in managers. In addition, it is shown that discretionary accruals and timeliness of disclosure have a positive impact on corporate innovation levels. The impact of financial transparency can be shown to be stronger for firms in the UK, France and Germany, but not for other European firms. The study is relevant for the creative destruction and the resilience theories.

In the face of mixed results from studies linking financial transparency to corporate innovation levels, this study is designed to make one type of contribution: financial and accounting property as indicators of financial transparency may play a role in promoting or discouraging innovation.