Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100922
Figen Sevinc Basol , Murat Yorulmaz , Medet Yolal
Water areas (WA) can potentially promote well-being (WB), but there exists a paucity of research on the positive effects and role of water-based recreational experiences (WBRE). In an attempt to fill the gap in the literature, this study proposes a model to determine how WBRE can affect WB. Thus, this study investigates the role of therapeutic landscapes (TL) and emotional experiences (EE) in the relationship between WBRE, WB, and environmental behaviors (EB). Data are obtained from a total of 491 participants who previously had WBRE through the questionnaire method. This study finds that the variables had significant and positive relationships with each other. More specifically, it reveals a moderating role of TL in the relationship between WBRE and EE; a mediating role of EE in the relationship between WBRE and WB. The model analysis yields that EE have no effect on EB, and also that EE are not a mediating variable in the relationship between WBRE and EB.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100937
Andrea Mannberg , Maria Johansson , Eeva Latosuo
Snow and avalanche safety is a male dominated field. The aim of this paper is to increase the knowledge on the gendered conditions and the prerequisites this poses for snow and avalanche safety professionals, and to shed light on why relatively few women enter and stay in the industry. Our analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative data from a survey sent out to avalanche professionals in North America, Continental Europe, and Scandinavia. We inductively coded and categorized responses to open-ended questions into themes based on patterns and commonalities, using a content analysis. We find that avalanche work requires a wide skill set - skills that are traditionally associated with men as well as skills that are traditionally associated with women, and that our participants think that increased diversity at large would benefit the industry. However, our data also reveal persisting cultural and structural gender barriers that make it more difficult for women and non-binary individuals to enter and thrive in the industry compared to men. We discuss management implications that can help make the industry better for all.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100917
Carly M. Knudson, Jeffrey N. Rose
With the increasing prominence of nature-based tourism, a healthy workforce is necessary to sustain successful outcomes for participants and the industry as a whole. Despite substantial evidence of the benefits of nature-based tourism experiences for participants, limited scientific literature focuses on the health experiences and outcomes of nature-based tourism guides. This study disseminated an online-based survey to nature-based tourism guides in the western United States to collect both quantitative and qualitative data that inquired about aspects of health care access and well-being, as well as sought to identify unique factors guides indicate as contributing towards their health outcomes. Findings show that guides reported resilience significantly predicted differences in subjective well-being, and guides identified additional factors that impacted their health such as community strength, workplace environment, and access to health coverage. These findings help inform suggestions for nature-based tourism operators and managers to support the overall health and well-being of guides and seasonal staff.
Management implications
This study examined various factors that contribute to the health and well-being of nature-based tour guides. As guides are an integral component to executing successful and sustainable tourism experiences for visitors, our research findings emphasize the need for nature-based tourism managers to consider and prioritize the importance of the health and well-being of their staff. These management strategies may include providing or outsourcing resources that can protect or support guides. According to our findings, topics of concern include resilience, health insurance coverage, workplace conflict mitigation and communication strategies, harassment and discrimination trainings, and/or access to mental and physical health services. Furthermore, procedures that integrate health and well-being assessments within the company can help to further tailor trainings to fit the needs of each operation. These findings likely translate to other types of outdoor, seasonal work within the tourism and outdoor recreation professions.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100938
Erin Vaughn, John Quinn
Parks, preserves, and other greenspaces provide diverse amenities to humans and habitats for wildlife and biodiversity. However, anthropogenic disturbances, including noise, from outdoor recreation can negatively impact biodiversity. Soundscape analyses using passive acoustic monitoring provides a scalable assessment of the drivers and impacts of noise on biodiversity along recreation trails. While there is acoustic data on the effects of roads on wildlife, there is less work on the effects of noise from recreation trails. To address this gap we collected acoustic data and calculated acoustic indices at Conestee Nature Preserve, a peri-urban recreational space, to evaluate the biophony at locations on recreational trails and away from trails. Acoustic index values differed between locations with and without foot traffic indicating an influence of recreation on the wildlife, biodiversity, and the acoustic environment more broadly. These data demonstrate that acoustic monitoring provides actionable insight for recreation managers interested in the biodiversity value and impacts of walking rails. In addition, these data suggest that trail use management should consider mechanisms to protect acoustic environments preferred by wildlife and humans.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100918
Frederick Dapilah, Benjamin Aapeple Bedigbee, Samuel Ziem Bonye
Increasing climate change and its impacts remain a monumental threat globally to Nature-based Tourism (NBT) destinations now and in the future. However, the complex relationship between climate change and NBT remains underexplored as there is only limited empirical evidence of their vulnerability and adaptiveness, particularly for research on NBTs in Africa. This paper examines the system-wide vulnerability and adaptation strategies of the Mole National Park (MNP) in Northern Ghana. The study combines semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and various participatory methods. The findings show that park managers and the MNP fringe communities perceived a change in the climate accompanied by extreme climate events such as drought and flood over the last two decades. The climate changes experienced in the MNP led to increased poaching and human-wildlife conflicts, declining biodiversity and ecosystem, food and water scarcity and reduced tourist viewing experience. In light of these, various adaptation strategies have been implemented by MNP stakeholders, including the construction of artificial waterholes and green buildings, controlled burning of grasses, regulation and enforcement, alternative livelihood schemes, afforestation and education programmes. Thus, the paper provides invaluable insights and responds to theoretical and empirical knowledge gaps in the burgeoning tourism and climate change research in developing countries.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-06-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100901
Tomas Pernecky
This paper is a postdisciplinary exploration of leisure and the conceptual corollaries of recreation and adventure. It seeks to broaden the ontological discourse in the field and demonstrate that alternative approaches to theorising about and studying leisure, recreation, and tourism are possible – if not necessary – amid concerns and critiques stemming from posthumanism, climate change, decoloniality, and the mobilities of hope and despair. It is argued that leisure as an object of inquiry has been largely possible due to the fragmentation of being, namely the creation of dichotomies that juxtapose different states of being. By dismantling the disciplinary confines of leisure, it is shown that leisure and recreation can be reconsidered vis-à-vis empirical ontology as deeper engagement with questions of being and becoming in lived contexts and in relation to other entities and things. The suggested pathway of thinking beyond leisure might be valued particularly by emerging conceptual and ethical pioneers keen to reexamine and reimagine how we are in and become with the world.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-08-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100930
Sofie Kjendlie Selvaag , Marianne Evju
Littering in natural areas disrupts ecosystems and diminishes visitor experiences, posing a persistent challenge. This study explored how communication through signage could effectively reduce littering behavior. We tested two signage interventions at six campsites near Røvoltjønnan Lake in Femundsmarka National Park, Norway, using insights from visitor interviews and observations structured by the COM-B and the elaboration-likelihood models. Field experiments conducted in summer 2023 measured effectiveness through waste mapping, visitor surveys, and trail counters. Daily litter at the campsites ranged from 0 to 16 pieces, with an average of 13 pieces during the control period. Treatment period 1 (Sign 1), reduced this to 7 pieces, and treatment period 2 (Sign 2) to 4 pieces. Overall, there was a 59 % reduction in litter at campsites when the signs were implemented compared to the control period. While Sign 2, with larger font size and image, appeared more effective in reducing littering, the difference between the signs was not statistically significant, likely due to limited sample size. Most visitors already exhibited responsible behavior by taking their waste home and expressing a strong belief in the importance of not littering, suggesting that explanations and justifications included in Sign 1 were unnecessary. The signs likely served as reminders, increasing attentiveness and encouraging visitors to take all their waste with them, with some picking up litter left by others. These findings highlight the importance of targeted communication in fostering stewardship and providing actionable insights for park managers to reduce environmental impacts and promote sustainable visitor behavior.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100864
Ming Gao , Congying Fang
The emotional responses elicited by urban green spaces are vital to understanding their role in public health. However, evidence remains scarce on how the characteristics of these spaces affect people's emotional reactions during activities. Our study aims to investigate the mechanisms linking the spatial organization and morphological features of green spaces with emotional preferences during jogging activities. Utilizing photographs collected from the Flickr social media site, we quantified emotional responses during jogging through an online cognitive service and explored the relationship between emotions' probability, intensity, and evenness with green space characteristics. Our results highlight significant patterns and individual variations in emotional responses, indicating that females more frequently exhibit happiness, while males tend to maintain a neutral emotional state. Additionally, we identified significant correlations between the characteristics of urban green spaces and emotional responses during jogging. Notably, connectivity and integration within these spaces are positively linked with both the probability and uniformity of emotional responses. Proximity to water bodies not only increases the likelihood of emotional responses but also intensifies them. This research provides empirically validated insights into emotional reactions during physical activities and underscores the design quality considerations that urban planners and policymakers should account for when updating or planning green spaces. Our study offers guidance for evidence-based design of restorative environments, thereby enhancing the potential emotional health benefits of urban green spaces.
Management implications
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Improving the arrangement of blue spaces (water features) in parks can enhance outdoor joggers' positive emotional experiences.
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Examining how park visitors' emotions during outdoor jogging correlate with park spatial characteristics can guide the redevelopment and redesign of parks to enrich visitors' recreational experiences.
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The emotional differences observed among park visitors of different genders provide insights into how park environmental design and management can cater to diverse visitor preferences and needs.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100866
Jian Gong , Yong Feng , Liqiang Xiao , Yuanyao Yang
The development of Mountainous outdoor tourism has a certain impact on the local economy, culture, and politics, and local residents have witnessed both the advantages and disadvantages of the local Mountainous outdoor tourism development. Their satisfaction evaluation of Mountainous outdoor tourism is an important observation dimension for achieving sustainable regional development. This study takes residents engaged in Mountainous outdoor sports-related projects and outdoor tourism in the Four Girls Mountainous area as the survey subjects, and employs the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis method (fsQCA) based on complexity theory, using fsQCA, we constructed 10 complex theoretical models of residents' tourism satisfaction, with demographics, tourism sharing perception, and local perception as the main influencing factors. And combined with SPSS and SmartPLS for relevant data analysis, 22 high tourism satisfaction and 15 low tourism satisfaction causal combination paths were derived, and all combinations of antecedent conditions meet the condition that the coverage of the solution is greater than 0.3 and the consistency of the solution is greater than 0.75, It was found that each antecedent variable can have a positive, negative, or absent effect in the prediction, and the role of each path and variable depends on their mutual interaction. The study also deepened the understanding of the asymmetric causal relationships that exist between various influencing factors and residents’ tourism satisfaction.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100896
Sheri A. Shiflett , Jeffrey S. Jenkins , Rachel F. Mattos , Kai Thiry , Peter C. Ibsen , Melissa Booher , Angela Tricomi , Nicole D. Athearn
Montane meadows provide vital habitat that supports ecosystems, regulate hydrological processes, and offer valuable recreational opportunities. Meadows account for 3 % of Yosemite National Park's area, including Yosemite Valley, and are particularly susceptible to human impacts such as formation of informal trails. We collected observational data on visitor activity and quantified social trail disturbance to compare with resource monitoring datasets and through similar parameters to Walden-Schreiner and Leung (2013) who studied visitor use and behavior in three Yosemite Valley meadows in 2011. We documented change in number of visitors per hour and primary activity pursued. We also compared trends of meadow disturbance (informal trail length and disturbed area) from the early 2000s - 2023. Informal trail length at El Capitan Meadow decreased from 2004 to 2018, followed by recent increases. Disturbed area for Cooks A, Sentinel A, Slaughterhouse B, Stoneman A, and Stoneman B sub-meadows increased from 2006 to 2023. Between 2011 and 2023, the proportion of those engaged in active versus stationary pursuits showed that visitors engaged in more active pursuits in two of three meadows. Moreover, there were >3.5 times more visitors per hour in Cooks, El Capitan, and Leidig meadows in 2023 compared to 2011, yet, most visitors utilized designated trails. Meadow locational context was linked to activity preference and types of impacts. Management strategies, such as fencing and signage have been effective at minimizing impacts in several meadows. Parsing nuances of informal trail use and drivers of disturbance for various meadows is crucial for informed park management decisions and actions.
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