Relationships between national-park affinity and attitudes towards protected area management of visitors to the Gesaeuse National Park, Austria

Arnberger, Arne; Eder, Renate; Allex, Brigitte; Sterl, Petra; Burns, Robert Ignatius

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2011.06.013

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“…On the contrary, other studies demonstrated positive and significant preferences for park visits with guides [14,15,41]. According to Arnberger et al [42], tourists agree that off-trail hiking has a negative impact on wildlife and plants. Milanovich et al [43] support this statement by referring to significant studies found in literature concerning the impact on habitats.…”

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Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

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Sustainable tourism management plans rely on relevant and consistent information about factors that can influence the decision to visit a protected area. This paper uses the choice experiment method to investigate tourists' preferences with regard to recreational trip characteristics in national and natural parks in Romania. An on-site survey questionnaire was administered to visitors. The multinomial logit model was employed to investigate the preference orderings of the identified groups of recreational users. Overall, results indicate that tourists gain benefits after visiting the parks. Main preference differences were found for information sources and location of campsites. Visitors who stated that the park was the main trip destination were willing to have access to more information sources, the marks on trails being insufficient. Camping is preferred only in organized places, expressing the concern for environmental protection. The results of this study have management implications, highlighting the importance of assessing tourists' preferences as a foundation for developing sustainable tourism strategies.

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Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

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“…Previous attitudinal research with tourists in national parks has considered their support for management actions in Yellowstone National Park, amongst winter visitors (Borrie, Freimund, & Davenport, 2002); foreign tourists' requirements for facilities in Norwegian national parks (Haukeland, Grue & Veisten, 2010) and attitudes towards the management of visitors to the Gesaeuse National Park, Austria (Arnberger, Eder, Allex, Steri & Burns, 2012). Attitudes towards conservation have been studied in Yellowstone National Park regarding wolf recovery (Duffield, Neher & Patterson, 2008) and attitudes to bark beetle infestation in a German national park (Müller & Job, 2009).…”

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Modelling attitudes to nature, tourism and sustainable development in national parks: A survey of visitors in China and the UK

Fox

2014

Tourism Management

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This research undertook a visitor survey in two protected areas in different cultural contexts, namely China and the UK, to explore whether the value a person attaches to the environment influences their attitude towards sustainable tourism development in national parks. Structural equation models were developed with data from 597 and 368 questionnaires collected in Jiuzhaigou National Scenic Area, China and the New Forest National Park, UK respectively. The results suggested that anthropocentric or ecocentric values significantly influence people's attitudes to tourism and sustainable development. The same structured causal relationship was found in both samples, between people's attitudes towards the natural environment, conservation and tourism in a national park context.

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“…Interpretative and symbolic levels that emphasize the importance of cultural influences can be greatly influenced by factors such as familiarity and affinity with particular environments [26][27][28][29][30]. For rural landscape, visitors (low familiarity) prefer a traditional rural landscape dominated by natural elements, while local farmers (high familiarity) prefer productive, well-organized landscapes [31].…”

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Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

Lee

Son

2017

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This study explores differing landscape perceptions of Bukhansan National Park according to the degree of visitors' familiarity, and discusses the utilization of commonality and diversity of landscape perception in sustainable landscape management. Visitor-employed photography (VEP) was used to capture the overall response to experiencing landscape directly on-site. According to the degree of familiarity of national parks, visitors were recruited into two groups: inexperienced group (the novice group) and experienced group (the veteran group). We collected photographs and photo-logs of liked and disliked landscape from the participants. Additional interviews were conducted to supplement the content of the photo-logs. The objects of landscape were classified into spatial configurations and specific elements. The cognitive process of landscape perception is divided into four stages: perceptual, expressive, interpretative, and symbolic. Emphasizing the narrative aspects of landscape, accepting and interpreting the phenomenon can vary according to an individual's interest and background. We used semantic network analysis to analyze the content of participants' photo-logs. The content at the interpretative level showed that the two groups had very different perceptions of anthropic elements. The novice group emphasized walkability and accessibility, while the veteran group regarded naturalness and historicity as more important. In conclusion, it is a very useful way to analyze the differences of perceptions of two visitors, both the novice group and the veteran group to grasp the positive or negative perceptions of people's impacts on the landscape. Understanding the value of relevant visitors through analysis results is one way to resolve potential conflicts.

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Relationships between national-park affinity and attitudes towards protected area management of visitors to the Gesaeuse National Park, Austria

Cited by 65 publications

References 23 publications

Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

Assessing Tourists’ Preferences for Recreational Trips in National and Natural Parks as a Premise for Long-Term Sustainable Management Plans

Modelling attitudes to nature, tourism and sustainable development in national parks: A survey of visitors in China and the UK

Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

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