Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100996
Tove I. Dahl , Tim Dassler , Richard Fjellaksel , Audun Hetland , Gerit Pfuhl , Karin Street , Håvard Boutera Toft , Christin Schulze
With limited regulation, how can we help individuals make autonomous, safe decisions in complex, uncertain and volatile contexts? Using backcountry skiing in Norway as a case study, we explore how aspects of soft regulatory approaches—boosts and nudges—are used to support safer decision-making in high-risk environments as a complement to formal regulation. Norway's ethos of friluftsliv and the right to roam grants recreationists significant autonomy, yet this freedom comes with risks, as human-triggered avalanches in unmanaged wilderness areas pose serious threats. We present several existing interventions, such as avalanche courses, and beacon checkpoints. We then use a behavioral science lens to identify their boosty and nudgy qualities and how they may support the seemingly incongruous practice of safe and autonomous decision-making while having fun in sometimes highly hazardous contexts. Challenges, including intervention accessibility, trust, and scalability, are discussed, and recommendations for future practice and research are offered.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-23DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.101006
Lu-Ping Lin , Nien-Te Kuo , Kuo-Chien Chang , Yi-Sung Cheng
This research examined how challenge perception, motivation, and perceived playfulness influence adventure tourists’ revisit intentions. This was achieved using the cognitive-affective-conative model and stress-appraisal theory. Data were collected through a questionnaire self-administered by tourists participating in river tracing in Hualien, Taiwan. The findings show that challenge perception positively affects perceived playfulness, while motivation has a partially positive effect. Additionally, perceived playfulness positively influences revisit intention and mediates the relationship between challenge perception, motivation, and revisit intention.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2026.101018
Michael Tran , Robert Brander , Amy Peden
Background
A balanced view of the celebrated therapeutic and restorative benefits of surfing recognises a more complex reality in which surfers must navigate a range of social, psychological, and environmental challenges. The positive effects on mental health from recreational surfing are counterbalanced by several associated negative effects. Understanding the motivations of surfers despite this, and the balance of factors affecting the experiences and mental wellbeing of recreational surfers, will inform the promotion of recreational surfing and the design and delivery of associated programs.
Methods
A qualitative content analysis study was conducted with data collected through the Global Surfer Survey. A cross-sectional inductive thematic analysis identified dominant themes in response to two questions related to surfing and mental health.
Results
Regarding the ‘meaning of surfing’ key positive themes included emotional regulation, surfing as an identity and lifestyle, maintenance of physical wellbeing, and social belonging. Key negative themes included social exclusion and aggression, environmental and physical stressors and the emotional toll of rescue.
Discussion
The experiences and challenges faced by recreational surfers are related to a combination of demographic, social and environmental factors. Mental wellbeing is shaped through motivational balancing of relational engagement with the ocean, and surf culture.
Conclusion
The motivations for recreational surfing in Australia are best understood through a relational wellbeing lens where entanglements between individuals and their social and environmental contexts are identified.
In understanding these motivations, a balanced view can be presented when participating in, promoting, planning for, and developing policy for recreational surfing.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2026.101016
Xiang Chen , Yue Yang , Ruoting Feng
Over the past decade, cultural tourism towns in China have generally faced issues like homogeneous spatial forms, monotonous functional formats, and blind investment. This study proposes the “Spatial Richness' theory based on Space Syntax, Urban Image, and Blue-Green Spaces theories. Distinct from “Spatial Diversity', the core of Spatial Richness lies in taking streets and alleys as carriers, constructing spatial frameworks via street nodes, activating functional dynamism through diverse business formats, and creating natural landscapes with green spaces and water bodies—thus three-dimensionally shaping visitors' five senses and tourism experiences. The study selected 12 cultural tourism towns with distinct sentiment profiles, applied sentiment analysis and K-means clustering to online reviews for sentiment classification, collected business type info in each town via Points of Interest (POIs) data, measured green/water area distribution, street-alley turning nodes, and main street intersections using satellite maps, determined indicator weights through factor analysis, and finally calculated each town's comprehensive spatial richness score via indicator-weight vector dot product. The study revealed indicator weight order: street-alley turning nodes (22.58 %) > street-alley green area (22.35 %) > main street-alley intersections (22.00 %) > street-alley-connected business diversity (19.42 %) > street-alley water area (13.65 %). Spatial richness shows a nonlinear positive correlation with tourists' positive sentiments. The 0–20,000 spatial richness score range is a high-efficiency investment zone, where priority goes to high-weight indicators like turning nodes, green area, and main intersections. This study breaks single-factor research limitations on cultural tourism towns, clarifies the “spatial supply-sentiment demand' quantitative match mechanism, and provides a theoretical basis for their sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100998
Samuel Cornell , Timothy Piatkowski , Robert Brander , Amy E. Peden
Social media travel and adventure influencers present both challenges and opportunities for outdoor recreation management and public safety. With large and engaged audiences, these influencers shape followers' travel decisions and risk-taking behaviours in natural settings, prompting the need for new communication strategies from land managers and public health practitioners. This study investigated how Australian travel and adventure influencers perceive and communicate risk in their online content. Semi-structured interviews with influencers were conducted online between September and December 2023, exploring their views on their own risk-taking, whether and how they convey risk information to followers, and the extent to which they believe they hold responsibility for educating audiences about safety in the outdoors. Interviews were thematically analysed using an exploratory design informed by Source Credibility Theory to interpret emerging themes within established communication frameworks. Three themes were identified: influencers generally position themselves as entertainers rather than educators, distancing themselves from responsibility for followers' behaviour; risk-taking and autonomy form a key part of influencer identity and online credibility; and effective communication with influencers requires approaches that prioritise authenticity and align with their personal and professional values. Overall, the findings indicate that while influencers resist assumptions that they should provide safety information or model cautious behaviour, there are opportunities for land management agencies to collaborate with them through co-designed communication strategies that leverage influencers’ strengths without conflicting with their self-presentation or perceived autonomy.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2026.101017
Jinok Susanna Kim , C. Michael Hall , Kok Beng Goh , Myung Ja Kim
Contact with nature, including nature-based tourism, is an acknowledged strategy for psychological restoration. However, the recovery pathway from stress to quality of life in relation to nature-based tourism remains underexplored. This research proposes and evaluates a model that integrating the transactional model of stress and coping, the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, and attention restoration theory. A survey of 347 national park visitors in Korea revealed that stress significantly affects emotion regulation and perceived restorative environments, which in turn enhance recovery experiences, satisfaction, and quality of life. Multi-group analysis showed that these effects were significantly stronger among individuals with high mindfulness. These findings highlight mindfulness as a key moderating factor and offer theoretical and practical insights regarding how nature-based experiences can support psychological well-being.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.101002
Xuan Tai Mai , Chris Ryan , Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten
Although geothermal resources have long been utilised as tourism assets, research on geothermal tourism experiences remains scarce. This research investigates the interplay of memorable tourism experience (MTE) dimensions in shaping tourists’ revisit and recommend intentions. A survey was administered among visitors to a geothermal destination of Rotorua, New Zealand. The study employed a symmetric approach using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and an asymmetric approach utilising fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) for data analysis. The findings reveal that hedonism, novelty, refreshment, and meaningfulness significantly influence revisit intention, while hedonism, involvement, novelty, and refreshment significantly impact recommend intention. Additionally, the fsQCA results show twelve sufficient combinations of MTE dimensions that drive high revisit and recommend intentions. This research enriches the tourism scholarship by providing new insights into the role of MTEs in geothermal tourism. The findings also offer a strategic guiding framework for destination managers.
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This study investigates the factors influencing the competitiveness of small island adventure tourism, with a focus on Qeshm Island, Iran. Drawing on the Resource-Based View (RBV) and the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) framework, this research examines how natural resources, sustainability, and infrastructure contribute to destination competitiveness. Using semi-structured interviews with 16 key stakeholders, the study identifies critical factors that shape tourism development, emphasizing the roles of sustainability, accessibility, and government support. By mapping the interrelationships among these factors, the findings provide a structured framework for enhancing tourism management strategies. The study underscores the necessity of strategic interventions that balance economic growth, environmental conservation, and community engagement, offering valuable insights for policymakers, tourism planners, and industry stakeholders seeking to strengthen the long-term resilience and sustainability of adventure tourism in small island destinations.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.101003
Brooklyn Rushton , Christopher J. Lemieux , Daniel J. Scott , Michelle Rutty
Our global society is grappling with a polycrisis, a convergence of interconnected challenges that profoundly affect life on Earth and demand transformative change. This study examines COVID-19, a health-related dimension of the polycrisis, as a potential catalyst for sustainable and regenerative tourism transitions in Canada's nature-based destinations by analyzing shifts in demand. Specifically, it investigates how Canadians' travel behaviours, motivations, values, and preferences changed across four distinct pandemic phases, and whether these shifts indicate a desire for more sustainable and regenerative forms of tourism or are merely short-term adaptations to COVID-19 restrictions. Drawing on a national survey of 753 Canadians that uses both quantitative and qualitative methods, the findings reveal a growing preference for more sustainable and regenerative tourism practices post COVID-19. This is evidenced by increased interest in local, regional, domestic, slow, and nature-based travel in the post-pandemic period. While challenges such as affordability and cultural inertia persist, results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic opened space for a broader consumer shift, offering opportunities for Canada's nature-based tourism sector to better align with sustainable and regenerative principles as part of its recovery and future development. The discussion concludes with recommendations for multi-scalar action, across individual, destination, sectoral, national, and global levels, to accelerate the transition towards more sustainable and regenerative forms of tourism.
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Pub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2026-01-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.101012
Hayley Nash Jackson , Lauren Redmore , Christopher A. Cheek , Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek
Natural resource agencies and researchers have often focused efforts to reduce the constraints women face in hunting. However, many women continue to hunt despite these barriers, suggesting a need to understand the complex decisions they make. This study explores the decision space that women navigate despite logistical, cultural, and personal constraints. This mixed method study used free lists (n = 50) and semi-structured interviews (n = 22) to identify the most salient decisions women make to go hunting. These included decisions about gear, household responsibilities, hunting partners, land access, and pre-planning. Interviews revealed how women strategically make decisions to navigate constraints by connecting actions across domains such as safety, time, and social support. Gear decisions, for example, were shaped by cost, safety, and confidence, and some women expressed insecurity about lacking the “right” equipment. Many participants also emphasized peer support and sought community with other women. Hunting also required prioritizing personal time, often in tension with expectations around caregiving and household roles. These findings suggest that state agencies and conservation organizations can play an active role in supporting women—not only through outreach and education, but by facilitating access to peer networks and reducing gear-related barriers. Programs like gear libraries or donation drives may reduce early-entry obstacles and help foster confidence. Efforts to reframe women's leisure as necessary may help women who struggle with guilt around household duties. Overall, this study highlights women's agency to navigate barriers, make complex decisions, act on their hunting goals, and it offers practical insights to improve recruitment and retention.
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