Reducing car-use for leisure: Can organised walking groups switch from car travel to bus and train walks?

Davies, Nick; Weston, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2015.08.009

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“…In adventure recreation spaces, activities may be hard or soft, based on levels of regulation and independence, risk and control (Ewert, 2000). Organised walking groups can be highly regulated and structured, for example (Davies and Weston, 2015). Recreation and tourism activities often occur in the same physical spaces; for example National Parks (McKercher, 1996), the countryside, and urban green spaces; and overlap other areas including ecotourism and activity tourism (Pomfret and Bramwell, 2014).…”

Section: Walking Studies In the Fields Of Tourism Adventure Tourism mentioning

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Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations

Davies

2016

Annals of Leisure Research

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Section: Walking Studies In the Fields Of Tourism Adventure Tourism mentioning

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Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations

Davies

2016

Annals of Leisure Research

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“…Especially in the context of rural nature-based tourism, environmental values can produce a moral dilemma to many travellers. While often considering themselves as 'nature lovers', their behaviours, especially transport mode choices, often don't reflect this identity (Davies & Weston, 2015), describing an attitude-behaviour gap (Juvan & Dolnicar, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This includes intra-destination visits (Masiero & Zoltan, 2013), accommodation choices, activity choices and related equipment intensity (LaMondia et al, 2010; as well as transport mode choices (Le-Klähn & Masiero & Zoltan, 2013). Certain travel motives or activities involve travelling to remote places with few people and low public accessibility, which conflicts with PT usage (Davies & Weston, 2015;Kelly et al, 2007). While often considered an obstacle to independent leisure and tourism activities, PT can also increase flexibility and enhance the experience, for example on non-circular biking or hiking trips (Davies & Weston, 2015;Guiver et al, 2007;Lumsdon et al, 2006).…”

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Out of the city – but how and where? A mode-destination choice model for urban–rural tourism trips in Austria

Juschten

Hössinger

2020

Current Issues in Tourism

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Rural tourism is dominated by car travel. To attract tourists and facilitate a modal shift, a greater understanding is needed on the factors driving tourist decisions. This paper examines destination and transport mode choices as a combined choice in the context of urban-rural tourism in Austria. To do this, this article explores two different model structures, ultimately using a multinomial logit model, which is rooted in the random utility theory. The analysed data are based on a large tourism survey, with additional trip and destination characteristics annotated later on to allow for the anticipated focus on supply-side factors. The results show that (1) destination and transport mode choices are intertwined decisions, (2) car and public transport (PT) travellers perceive travel time and distance differently, (3) a high-quality web presence is the strongest destination attractor, (4) walkability facilitates both destination and public transport attractiveness, and (5) daily and tourist mobility are connected through underlying mobility cultures. These results have various policy and planning implications, especially for destination attempting to transition towards more sustainable tourism futures by means of new transport or tourism offers or social marketing measures targeting both tourists with their personal values and practices as well as tourism-related institutions.

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“…Growing number of motorized vehicle, is the choice of commuter and local society since it is more flexible, higher accessibility, and could be used every time to reach unavailable public places around the port as transit location (Davies & Weston, 2015) and (Nur, Samang, Ramli, & Hamid, 2016). They prefer using motorized vehicle or rented even though they are more expensive, owing to unavailability of massive public transportation to all destined locations in fulfilling their needs.…”

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“…Commuter from the shore, heading to Paotere port generally cycling, riding motorcycle or driving private car, consequently, it contributed to traffic congestion and accident (Davies & Weston, 2015). Although it is more expensive and pollutive, commuter from small islands and others who wanted to shop at traditional market, gas station, workshop, industry, relatives and shopping center usually took motor rickshaw, taxi and or private car (Lu, Zhu, Li, Singh, & Nozaki, 2016).…”

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Determination Model of Suitable Coastal Transit-Oriented Development Location, Case Study: Paotere, Makassar

Arief¹,

Yudono²,

Akil³

et al. 2017

JSD

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Commuter and local society, the users of Paotere local port who took round trip to small islands and other island as well, experienced redundancy of cost, time and travel distance in fulfilling their whole needs at the shore of Makassar. Traveling by using motorized vehicle at the shore of Makassar was taken due to the unavailability of needed goods in the port and its neighborhood within radius 500 meters. This research is aimed at establishing determination model of suitable location for spatial planning of coastal Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in order to eliminate redundancy of cost, time and travel distance. It applied expert system and spatial analysis method based on geographic information system (GIS). The result showed that the most suitable location for coastal TOD development was in local Port and its neighborhood, it was at some grids, 581-585 and 540-542 within walking radius. Used determination model was determination in which, relied on highest value of the location with supports from its neighborhood location as well and the correlation among; certainty factor, commuter's activity and local society.

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Reducing car-use for leisure: Can organised walking groups switch from car travel to bus and train walks?

Cited by 25 publications

References 39 publications

Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations

Who walks, where and why? Practitioners’ observations and perspectives on recreational walkers at UK tourist destinations

Out of the city – but how and where? A mode-destination choice model for urban–rural tourism trips in Austria

Determination Model of Suitable Coastal Transit-Oriented Development Location, Case Study: Paotere, Makassar

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