Ante Mandić
Biographic Data
| ID | 3056880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ante Mandić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ante |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandić |
| SIGNATURE | MANDIĆ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Split |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2524-6387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Connecting Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation via Homestay Tourism in Ghanaian Protected Sites: A Social Entrepreneurship Perspective
Sustainable tourism increasingly seeks models that align community livelihoods with biodiversity conservation. Yet, the integration of social entrepreneurship (SE) within community‐based homestays remains underexplored. This study examines homestay enterprises in three Ghanaian protected and conservation‐designated sites, Nzulezu Village on Stilts, Boabeng–Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, and Mole National Park, to assess whether they operate as SE models…
Living Labs as Governance Mechanisms for Sustainable Tourism Monitoring: Evidence From Six European Destinations
This study examines the role of Living Labs in advancing sustainable tourism governance across six European destinations: the Rotterdam Metropolitan Region (the Netherlands), the Scheldeland Region (Belgium), Utsjoki municipality (Finland), Huesca province (Spain), the Split metropolitan area (Croatia), and Vicenza (Italy). Using a pragmatic mixed‐method design grounded in implementation science, the study investigates the development and initial…
GSTC evaluation of urban and nature-based tourism destinations in Croatia: Implications for adaptive governance and resilience
This study critically examines the sustainability performance of six leading urban and nature-based destinations in Croatia using the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Destination Criteria v2.0. Grounded in resilience theory and adaptive governance, the research integrates expert-led self-assessments with quantitative analysis at both subcategory and indicator levels. Results reveal significant, statistically validated differences between…
Revisiting tourism taxes: A justice-oriented approach to redistributing revenue
This paper advances a justice-oriented critique of tourism taxation, arguing that prevailing distributive frameworks inadequately address the structural and intergenerational inequities tourism often reproduces. We adopt a regenerative justice paradigm that reconceptualises taxation as a proactive instrument for socio-ecological repair, participatory governance, and community resilience. Drawing from critical theory and emerging policy innovation…
Emotional Values and Environmentally Responsible Travel Among Generation Z
This study examines how Generation Z's terminal and instrumental values, shaped by emotional attachment to nature, influence their environmentally responsible travel behaviors (ERTB) in India. Drawing on the Value‐Belief‐Norm (VBN) theory and employing the Rokeach Value Survey, the research examines how value orientations and emotional factors, particularly love for nature, motivate sustainable travel choices. Data were collected through an onlin…
Climate Change, Nature-Based Tourism, and Aging: Assessing Vulnerability and Resilience in Urban and Natural Protected Areas—Semi-Systematic Review
Climate change poses increasing risks to the ecological and social foundations of Nature-Based Tourism (NBT), particularly within urbanized and protected landscapes. This study examines how the existing literature conceptualizes climate vulnerability and resilience across Urban Protected Areas (UPAs) and Natural Protected Areas (NPAs), addressing an identified gap in comparative NBT scholarship. Using a semi-systematic literature review of 72 pee…
Tourism capital investment and climate dynamics: Insights from the Asia-Pacific region
Engaging stakeholders in cultural tourism Living Labs: A pathway to innovation, sustainability, and resilience
Sustainable visitor experience design in nature-based tourism: An introduction to the Special Issue
A critical review and assessment of the last 15 years of experience design research in a nature-based tourism context
This paper delivers a critical review and assessment of the last 15 years of experience design research in an NBT context. We employed a systematic approach to review the literature and identified 99 relevant out of 1378 studies published in selected databases. The analysis has demonstrated that research on NBT experience design is cross-disciplinary and faces increasing interest. Despite significant progress, the concept of the NBT visitor exper…
Language Diversity and Literature Reviews in Tourism Research
Language bias is a common yet undiscussed practice that can significantly constrain the rigor and generalization of place-based studies and literature reviews. This article discusses how research published in English compared with other languages is considered or not when conducting literature reviews. This research focuses specifically on tourism research and explores specific journal article examples in the contemporary subject area of overtour…
The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development
Small islands in the central Mediterranean region are mostly considered sun, sea, and sand destinations, but many also have untapped ecotourism potential. To explore this, ecotour itineraries were designed with local ecotourism operators and community businesses on a group of islands. Ecotourists were then asked to participate in pre- and post-tour surveys to test the tours and provide key information on the package. Their motivations and expecta…
Gen Z and the flight shame movement: Examining the intersection of emotions, biospheric values, and environmental travel behaviour in an Eastern society
Using the norm activation model (NAM), our research delves into the impact of environmental concerns, and environmental self-assets on environmentally responsible travel behaviour (ENVRB), and the role of affective constructs (love for nature [LNA], respect for nature and flight shame) on travelling behaviour among Generation Z in India. Through a prediction-oriented and exploratory approach using partial least squares–structural equation modelin…
Children and overtourism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Experiment to Reflect on Exposure and Behavioural Consequences
As tourism research has paid limited attention to children, this study investigates children’s reactions to tourism development, focusing on their unique viewpoints on the World Heritage Site of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It employed cognitive neuroscience methods with 397 participants, revealing that, despite their preference for sustainable tourism scenarios, children exhibit a notable fixation on images emblematic of overtourism and associated challe…
Cultural Sustainable Tourism: Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Development
Millennials attitudes, choices and behaviour - integrative analysis
Individuals can play a critical role in reducing pressure on ecosystems. However, they are often not aware of their ecological footprints as they behave in ways that support their own interests. At the same time, society would benefit if we all act pro-environmentally. Using Millennials as an illustrative example and ecotourism as a study setting, this study introduces Goal Framing Theory for tourism scholars to discuss integratively how motives …
Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector. With tourism numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled back. Widespread reports of dramatic changes to protected and conserved1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, tourism businesses and the livelihoods of people who supply labour, goods and service…
The impacts of location and attributes of protected natural areas on hotel prices: Implications for sustainable tourism development
Gen Z and the flight shame movement: Examining the intersection of emotions, biospheric values, and environmental travel behaviour in an Eastern society
Using the norm activation model (NAM), our research delves into the impact of environmental concerns, and environmental self-assets on environmentally responsible travel behaviour (ENVRB), and the role of affective constructs (love for nature [LNA], respect for nature and flight shame) on travelling behaviour among Generation Z in India. Through a prediction-oriented and exploratory approach using partial least squares–structural equation modelin…
Children and overtourism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Experiment to Reflect on Exposure and Behavioural Consequences
As tourism research has paid limited attention to children, this study investigates children’s reactions to tourism development, focusing on their unique viewpoints on the World Heritage Site of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It employed cognitive neuroscience methods with 397 participants, revealing that, despite their preference for sustainable tourism scenarios, children exhibit a notable fixation on images emblematic of overtourism and associated challe…
Engaging stakeholders in cultural tourism Living Labs: A pathway to innovation, sustainability, and resilience
Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector. With tourism numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled back. Widespread reports of dramatic changes to protected and conserved1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, tourism businesses and the livelihoods of people who supply labour, goods and service…
The impacts of location and attributes of protected natural areas on hotel prices: Implications for sustainable tourism development
Cultural Sustainable Tourism: Strategic Planning for a Sustainable Development
Millennials attitudes, choices and behaviour - integrative analysis
Individuals can play a critical role in reducing pressure on ecosystems. However, they are often not aware of their ecological footprints as they behave in ways that support their own interests. At the same time, society would benefit if we all act pro-environmentally. Using Millennials as an illustrative example and ecotourism as a study setting, this study introduces Goal Framing Theory for tourism scholars to discuss integratively how motives …
Sustainable visitor experience design in nature-based tourism: An introduction to the Special Issue
A critical review and assessment of the last 15 years of experience design research in a nature-based tourism context
This paper delivers a critical review and assessment of the last 15 years of experience design research in an NBT context. We employed a systematic approach to review the literature and identified 99 relevant out of 1378 studies published in selected databases. The analysis has demonstrated that research on NBT experience design is cross-disciplinary and faces increasing interest. Despite significant progress, the concept of the NBT visitor exper…
Language Diversity and Literature Reviews in Tourism Research
Language bias is a common yet undiscussed practice that can significantly constrain the rigor and generalization of place-based studies and literature reviews. This article discusses how research published in English compared with other languages is considered or not when conducting literature reviews. This research focuses specifically on tourism research and explores specific journal article examples in the contemporary subject area of overtour…
The Routledge Handbook of Nature Based Tourism Development
Small islands in the central Mediterranean region are mostly considered sun, sea, and sand destinations, but many also have untapped ecotourism potential. To explore this, ecotour itineraries were designed with local ecotourism operators and community businesses on a group of islands. Ecotourists were then asked to participate in pre- and post-tour surveys to test the tours and provide key information on the package. Their motivations and expecta…
Gen Z and the flight shame movement: Examining the intersection of emotions, biospheric values, and environmental travel behaviour in an Eastern society
Using the norm activation model (NAM), our research delves into the impact of environmental concerns, and environmental self-assets on environmentally responsible travel behaviour (ENVRB), and the role of affective constructs (love for nature [LNA], respect for nature and flight shame) on travelling behaviour among Generation Z in India. Through a prediction-oriented and exploratory approach using partial least squares–structural equation modelin…
Children and overtourism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Experiment to Reflect on Exposure and Behavioural Consequences
As tourism research has paid limited attention to children, this study investigates children’s reactions to tourism development, focusing on their unique viewpoints on the World Heritage Site of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It employed cognitive neuroscience methods with 397 participants, revealing that, despite their preference for sustainable tourism scenarios, children exhibit a notable fixation on images emblematic of overtourism and associated challe…
Engaging stakeholders in cultural tourism Living Labs: A pathway to innovation, sustainability, and resilience
GSTC evaluation of urban and nature-based tourism destinations in Croatia: Implications for adaptive governance and resilience
This study critically examines the sustainability performance of six leading urban and nature-based destinations in Croatia using the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Destination Criteria v2.0. Grounded in resilience theory and adaptive governance, the research integrates expert-led self-assessments with quantitative analysis at both subcategory and indicator levels. Results reveal significant, statistically validated differences between…
Revisiting tourism taxes: A justice-oriented approach to redistributing revenue
This paper advances a justice-oriented critique of tourism taxation, arguing that prevailing distributive frameworks inadequately address the structural and intergenerational inequities tourism often reproduces. We adopt a regenerative justice paradigm that reconceptualises taxation as a proactive instrument for socio-ecological repair, participatory governance, and community resilience. Drawing from critical theory and emerging policy innovation…
Emotional Values and Environmentally Responsible Travel Among Generation Z
This study examines how Generation Z's terminal and instrumental values, shaped by emotional attachment to nature, influence their environmentally responsible travel behaviors (ERTB) in India. Drawing on the Value‐Belief‐Norm (VBN) theory and employing the Rokeach Value Survey, the research examines how value orientations and emotional factors, particularly love for nature, motivate sustainable travel choices. Data were collected through an onlin…
Climate Change, Nature-Based Tourism, and Aging: Assessing Vulnerability and Resilience in Urban and Natural Protected Areas—Semi-Systematic Review
Climate change poses increasing risks to the ecological and social foundations of Nature-Based Tourism (NBT), particularly within urbanized and protected landscapes. This study examines how the existing literature conceptualizes climate vulnerability and resilience across Urban Protected Areas (UPAs) and Natural Protected Areas (NPAs), addressing an identified gap in comparative NBT scholarship. Using a semi-systematic literature review of 72 pee…
Tourism capital investment and climate dynamics: Insights from the Asia-Pacific region
Connecting Sustainable Livelihoods and Conservation via Homestay Tourism in Ghanaian Protected Sites: A Social Entrepreneurship Perspective
Sustainable tourism increasingly seeks models that align community livelihoods with biodiversity conservation. Yet, the integration of social entrepreneurship (SE) within community‐based homestays remains underexplored. This study examines homestay enterprises in three Ghanaian protected and conservation‐designated sites, Nzulezu Village on Stilts, Boabeng–Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, and Mole National Park, to assess whether they operate as SE models…
Living Labs as Governance Mechanisms for Sustainable Tourism Monitoring: Evidence From Six European Destinations
This study examines the role of Living Labs in advancing sustainable tourism governance across six European destinations: the Rotterdam Metropolitan Region (the Netherlands), the Scheldeland Region (Belgium), Utsjoki municipality (Finland), Huesca province (Spain), the Split metropolitan area (Croatia), and Vicenza (Italy). Using a pragmatic mixed‐method design grounded in implementation science, the study investigates the development and initial…
Tourism (17 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Sustainable tourism (6 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works)