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Abstract

Holiday and recreation destinations play an important role in people's lives in modern societies. Outdoor recreation activity programs do not concern themselves with participants' physical improvement or empowerment, rather with their feelings of satisfaction and pleasure. This results in benefits that arise effortlessly, prompting participants to engage in lifelong exercise without making any demands on high performance on their part. Contemporary hectic lifestyle and the degraded natural environment that characterize modern cities constitute outdoor recreation and participation in outdoor recreation activities (O.R.A.), both important and highly necessary. Many scholars claim that increased interest in exercise helps people enhance its resulting benefits that directly relate to the quality of their lives. 86 people took part in a research that was carried out in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, in the NorthEast of Greece. Researchers examined the intentions/desires and the criteria of choice set by the visitors in relation to this uniquely beautiful site. The results of the MANOVA multivariable fluctuation analysis showed that there was no statistically significant effect on the sex of the participants with the Pillai's trace test showing F (1,59) = 1,061 and sig=.398. The researchers continue the research by expanding the sample with foreign tourists visiting the area of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.