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Despite being highly regarded commercial activity for stimulating the economy of a particular country, tourism is also becoming an emerging concern for its negative impact on the environment. Tourism and hospitality are among the most prominent contributors (Abeydeera and Karunasena, 2019). This industry's rapid expansion is expected to significantly impact long-term emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (Ahmad et al., 2021). Scholars have argued that companies should develop and implement green innovations to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate environmental threats (Amabile and Pratt, 2016).
Previous research suggests that stimulating green creative behaviour among employees depends on leadership awareness of ecological or green issues (Elkhwesky et al., 2022; Patwary et al., 2022a, b). Therefore, the current research focuses on discovering how green leadership can help counteract the adverse effects of tourism on our environment. Arici and Uysal (2022) indicated that studies investigating the effect of different leadership styles on the green behaviour of employees are inadequate. Thus, we argue that leadership influence should also be considered (Kim and Lee, 2022; Mubarak and Yusoff, 2019).
Previous environmental management studies focused on how hotels manage their environmental impacts (Ouyang et al., 2019). The hospitality industry can use the environmental management attributes established to conduct audits of green hotels (Alom et al., 2019). There are two distinct approaches to the hotel industry's environmental research: consumer and employee. However, scholars mainly focused on green marketing from the consumer's perspective (Groening et al., 2018). A company's strategic vision and goal can benefit from human resource management (HRM). Human resources traditionally serve as a conduit for executives' strategic vision to be communicated to employees and for employees to understand the vision (Su et al., 2021). According to Hamid et al. (2022), HRM directly influences the success of a company's strategic vision and the efficiency of its operations. According to this study, HRM is linked to environmental conservation in the hospitality industry. Environmentally friendly employees are hired and retained, and their contributions to the company's environmental efforts are reflected in employee performance evaluations (Li et al., 2022; Karatepe et al., 2022). Because the HR function is critical to achieving environmental-friendly corporate goals, green human resource management (GHRM) is a vital component...