Conservation of a threatened mammal species through domestic tourism in Chile

Buckley, Ralf; Cooper, Mary‐Ann

doi:10.1002/fee.2132

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“…The wildlife tourism sector [10] provides a natural experiment to test these approaches. Experience value and satisfaction depend on wildlife sightings, but sightings are not guaranteed [11][12][13][14]. Therefore, we can compile data from sightings and encounters that did occur and proved memorable, and examine how tourists recall their sensory and emotional components.…”

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Sensory and Emotional Components in Tourist Memories of Wildlife Encounters: Intense, Detailed, and Long-Lasting Recollections of Individual Incidents

Buckley

2022

Sustainability

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To quantify the role of senses and emotions in creating memorable tourism experiences, we need measurement frameworks that match how memories are created. This study examines that process through directed-content qualitative analysis of tourist encounters with wildlife. Data are derived from: interviews with 20 experienced wildlife tourism experts in 12 countries; 3000 social media posts on tourism enterprise and wildlife encounter websites; and participant observations and records of 168 memorable encounters involving >100 wildlife species, >850 tourists, and ~10,000 h in total, ranging over five decades. Across all data sources, senses and emotions differed between tourist interests and personalities, wildlife species and behaviours, and encounter circumstances. All senses were reported, with the most frequent being sight, followed by sound and smell, and, rarely, touch or taste. Descriptions were fine-grained and complex. The emotions reported were awe, joy, wonder, delight, thrill, amazement, envy, aww (cute-emotion), surprise, elation, satisfaction, interest, boredom, disappointment, sadness, embarrassment, concern, pity, distress, disgust, anxiety, shock, alarm, fear, and panic. Some experiences generated powerful recalls persisting for decades. Short-term, intense, and finely detailed senses and emotions defined experiences, created memories, and determined satisfaction, wellbeing, and subsequent outcomes. More accurate methods are needed to measure and characterise senses, emotions, and memories in tourism experience.

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Sensory and Emotional Components in Tourist Memories of Wildlife Encounters: Intense, Detailed, and Long-Lasting Recollections of Individual Incidents

Buckley

2022

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“…Similar concerns apply in other developing and newly industrialized countries. Private conservation measures are important, for example, for a number of threatened species in Latin America (Buckley and Cooper 2019). In India, threats to tiger have increased through collapse of livestock compensation schemes funded by tourism (Buckley and Pabla 2012) and poaching of prey species (Matthews 2020).…”

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Pandemic Travel Restrictions Provide a Test of Net Ecological Effects of Ecotourism and New Research Opportunities

Buckley

2020

Journal of Travel Research

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“…. it is because we are surrounded by nature, all they can hear is peace and quiet.” In another region, referring to a rare and endangered deer species, the huemul (Buckley and Cooper 2019), a CTE guide said: “People experience love at first sight because of the view, but leave much more in love . .…”

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“…Guests thank us for how tranquil this place is, they can really disconnect and get rid of stress … it is because we are surrounded by nature, all they can hear is peace and quiet." In another region, referring to a rare and endangered deer species, the huemul (Buckley & Cooper 2019), a CTE guide said: "People experience love at first sight because of the view, but leave much more in love … the colour of the river, which is magical, the trees … if they encounter huemules, they are transformed, there's only a few people that have experienced an encounter with huemules, so they say how incredible it was, telling us where they saw them." Destination stakeholder responses differed between DMOs, CTEs and PMAs.…”

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Tourist Mental Health Drives Destination Choice, Marketing, and Matching

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Buckley

2021

Journal of Travel Research

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Leisure tourism, including destination choice, can be viewed as an investment in mental health maintenance. Destination marketing measures can thus be analyzed as mental health investment prospectuses, aiming to match tourist desires. A mental health framework is particularly relevant for parks and nature tourism destinations, since the benefits of nature for mental health are strongly established. We test it for one globally iconic destination, using a large-scale qualitative approach, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourists’ perceptions and choices contain strong mental health and well-being components, derived largely from autonomous information sources, and differing depending on origins. Parks agencies emphasize factual cognitive aspects, but tourism enterprises and destination marketing organizations use affective approaches appealing to tourists’ mental health.

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Conservation of a threatened mammal species through domestic tourism in Chile

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Sensory and Emotional Components in Tourist Memories of Wildlife Encounters: Intense, Detailed, and Long-Lasting Recollections of Individual Incidents

Sensory and Emotional Components in Tourist Memories of Wildlife Encounters: Intense, Detailed, and Long-Lasting Recollections of Individual Incidents

Pandemic Travel Restrictions Provide a Test of Net Ecological Effects of Ecotourism and New Research Opportunities

Tourist Mental Health Drives Destination Choice, Marketing, and Matching

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