Linking visitors’ spatial preferences to sustainable visitor management in a Norwegian national park

Selvaag, Sofie Kjendlie; Aas, Øystein; Gundersen, Vegard

doi:10.1553/eco.mont-12-1s27

“…The reasons for visiting a certain NP can be as diverse as the visitors themselves. They include individual factors (e. g. personality, preferences, attitudes, way of life, sociodemographic characteristics), environmental or managerial factors (e. g. facilities, restrictions), and social factors (e. g. level of crowding, solitude, types of activities, accommodation) (Selvaag et al 2020). Visitors to NPs are characterized by different motives, needs and expectations with regard to specific types of experience (Leask 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motives for visiting the national parks of Serbia

Krejić¹,

Milićević²

2021

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This paper explores motives for visiting national parks in Serbia. The results were obtained from the responses of 840 visitors who were surveyed while they were staying in Serbia's national parks during June 2020. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the motives for visiting the parks correlate with visitors' sociodemographic characteristics: gender, age, educational level and employment status. The results showed that there are statistically significant differences in motives to visit national parks in relation to gender, while among other sociodemographic characteristics such as employment status, education and age, the correlation is negligible. The scientific contribution of the paper lies in the possibility of applying the research results elsewhere, to help understand visitors' motives, as well as create attractive tourist offers in national parks based on sustainable development.

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“…The reasons for visiting a certain NP can be as diverse as the visitors themselves. They include individual factors (e. g. personality, preferences, attitudes, way of life, sociodemographic characteristics), environmental or managerial factors (e. g. facilities, restrictions), and social factors (e. g. level of crowding, solitude, types of activities, accommodation) (Selvaag et al 2020). Visitors to NPs are characterized by different motives, needs and expectations with regard to specific types of experience (Leask 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motives for visiting the national parks of Serbia

Krejić¹,

Milićević²

2021

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This paper explores motives for visiting national parks in Serbia. The results were obtained from the responses of 840 visitors who were surveyed while they were staying in Serbia's national parks during June 2020. The aim of the paper is to examine whether the motives for visiting the parks correlate with visitors' sociodemographic characteristics: gender, age, educational level and employment status. The results showed that there are statistically significant differences in motives to visit national parks in relation to gender, while among other sociodemographic characteristics such as employment status, education and age, the correlation is negligible. The scientific contribution of the paper lies in the possibility of applying the research results elsewhere, to help understand visitors' motives, as well as create attractive tourist offers in national parks based on sustainable development.

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“…As a result, this serves as a magnet for tourism, and subsequently as a marketing tool for the tourism industry. Hence, there is a need for efficient tools that can aid managers to reduce the negative impacts of tourism in the most vulnerable areas [17], and at the same time take into account the different needs of tourists as well as the local communities [18]. Local knowledge and public participation is a significant part of sustainable development when it comes to preventing conflicts of interest and ensuring general prosperity, and thus also in the development of sustainability indicators.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Public Participation for Determining Sustainability Indicators for Arctic Tourism

Ólafsdóttir

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2020

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The new paradigm of sustainable development highlights the importance of enforcing defined boundaries between economies, societies, and the environment within a system. Sustainability indicators are tools that have proven to be a successful aid in defining and creating system boundaries. This paper focuses on the development of sustainability indicators for Arctic tourism, with a special emphasis on the role of public participation in their determination. It presents a stakeholder-centric approach to indicator selection by developing a framework that effectively integrates public participation in the processes of indicators’ selection and designation, and highlights the importance of combining local and expert knowledge in these processes. The results reveal that the making of sustainability indicators is an ideal platform for local voices to be heard, and thus to have a significant stake in the overall process of tourism development. The most effective way to make their voices heard in the final decision-making process is via their evaluation of the adaptability and prioritization of these indicators. The results, furthermore, stress that sustainability indicators need to be constantly re-evaluated and updated, as tourism is part of a complex and dynamic system that is constantly changing. To provide a holistic vision of the impact of economic, environmental, and social factors, as well as the causality between them in the system, sustainability indicators must be integrated from many indicators. Since the monitoring of conventional indicators is often less complicated and more cost-effective than the monitoring of integrated indicators, a better result can however be reached by combining conventional indicators with sustainability indicators.

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Linking visitors’ spatial preferences to sustainable visitor management in a Norwegian national park

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Motives for visiting the national parks of Serbia

Motives for visiting the national parks of Serbia

Motives for visiting the national parks of Serbia

The Role of Public Participation for Determining Sustainability Indicators for Arctic Tourism

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