The garden visitor experience

Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

“…Botanic gardens can continue to expand community outreach and programming tailored to diverse cultural perspectives on humannature relationships [84]. Adopting co-creative design principles facilitates engagement across all visitor segments, i.e., human and non-human (i.e., flora and fauna) and even post-human considerations (i.e., machine learning, A.I., virtual and augmented reality), by integrating reciprocity, flexibility, simplicity, and intuitive wayfinding into built and natural infrastructure and utilizing an engaged scholarship, effectual entrepreneurship, and designs on sustainable service ecosystems [62,106,[123][124][125][126][127].…”

“…The present commentary concludes with suggested research priority areas where TSR approaches could catalyze service innovations that leverage botanic garden tourism. It is intended that such considerations and proaction improve accessibility, mindfulness, visitor behavior and epistemological change in botanic garden guests and partnerships, visitor economy, visitor experience, social value, and community health outcomes as well as ultimately contribute to meeting SDGs and the sector's strategic vision, mission, aims, and objectives [4,6,[8][9][10]21,34,39,40,43,44,[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65].…”