Influence of Resilience of entrepreneurs on sustainable tourism development: mediating role of corporate philanthropy

Some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations may be connected to human stay and travelling, e.g. SDG 9, relative to Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure, SDG 7, relative to Affordable and Clean Energy, and also SDG 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities (Soh et al., 2023), which are strictly related to sustainable tourism. We applied the Structural equation modeling (SEM). SEM can be defined as a series of statistical techniques applied in order to find a relationship between independent variables, continuous or discrete. The paper shows that corporate philanthropy is a strong mediator between resilience and sustainable tourism development and this reduces agency issues between managers and owners, as these ones are more recalcitrant to spend money for society, especially after a turbulence like the pandemic.