Attitudes of rural accommodation managers towards the development of sustainable tourism

La finalidad de esta investigación es identificar las actitudes e intenciones del gerente de alojamientos rurales hacia la implementación de acciones socialmente responsables, y en consecuencia hacia un turismo sostenible. El carácter novedoso radica en la conexión entre la Teoría del Comportamiento Planeado (TCP) y la Teoría del Desarrollo Sostenible. La metodología empleada es la técnica de Partial Least Square, (PLS). Los resultados evidencian que la implementación de medidas sostenibles está determinada principalmente por las presiones del entorno del gerente.The purpose of our research lies in identifying rural-hospitality managers’ attitudes and intentions towards the implementation of social-responsability actions, and consequently toward sustainable tourism. The key research focus is on the association between the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Theory of Sustainable Development. Partial Least Square (PLS) is proposed to assess the relationships between the constructs together with the predictive power of the research model. Overall, our results conclude that the implementation of ‘sustainable actions’ is mainly determined by the pressures of the manager’s environment