Pub Date : 2025-11-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100984
Guofang Shi , Haili Shen , Xue Qin , Shun Ye
Chinese tourists represent an emerging source market for winter tourism. Destination personality is an effective tool for competitive positioning of winter destinations. This study investigates the reconstruction of destination personality through Chinese tourists' online travelogues (n = 196) focusing on Northeastern China (n = 96) and Hokkaido, Japan (n = 100) during the 2020–2024 period. Through systematic content analysis of these curated texts, we identified prominent personality traits for both destinations. Perceptual maps were constructed through co-occurrences analysis, to visualize the inner structures of winter destinations’ personality traits. The results suggest that Femininity emerges as the most important iconic personality trait of winter destinations. The further comparisons indicate that for a specific category of destinations, the core feature is stable and generalizable, the periphery, however, can vary a lot due to regional variations. The findings provide stakeholders of winter destinations with valuable insights to craft marketing strategies and enhance management practices.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100974
I Wayan Koko Suryawan , Ari Rahman , Sapta Suhardono , Chun-Hung Lee , Nova Ulhasanah , Mega Mutiara Sari
This study explores hikers’ preferences for resilience-oriented and technology-integrated trail services in Mount Semeru, Indonesia, a prominent hiking destination recently affected by pandemic restrictions and volcanic hazards. Utilizing a CE method supported by Random Parameter Logit (RPL) and Latent Class Models (LCM), the study investigates five key attributes: wayfinding information support, alert systems, emergency reporting, pre-hike education, and willingness to pay more. Findings reveal a strong preference for digital enhancements such as interactive offline wayfinding information, live alerts via mobile applications, AR/VR-based learning, and emergency reporting systems that function with limited signal coverage. The model identifies three hypothetical service improvement scenarios based on user preferences: basic tech enhancement, smart risk response, and integrated smart trail. The highest Marginal Willingness to Pay More (MWTPM) is associated with AR/VR-based pre-hike education (IDR 31,016.95), followed by automated emergency reporting (IDR 30,932.20), and live alert systems (IDR 28,536.74). These results underscore the demand for innovative and adaptive safety infrastructures in hiking tourism. The study contributes to the evolving discourse on the geographies and mobilities of hiking in the Anthropocene, offering practical implications for trail management, destination development, and digital transition in post-pandemic tourism recovery.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100982
Tor Erik Heyerdahl Nyquist , Reidun Birgitta Jahnsen , Trond Bliksvaer (Bliksvær) , Ana Koncul , Karin Marie Antonsen
Involvement in nature-based activities is shown to increase health and wellbeing. However, some people with disabilities require assistive devices to be able to participate in such activities. By exploring the needs of persons with disabilities regarding assistive devices, this study aims to gain a better understanding of how accessible nature-based experiences for all can be supported. The article builds on a large-scale digital survey of the needs and experiences of persons with disabilities who were contacted through user organizations and a rehabilitation center in Norway. Most of the respondents reported that they brought their own assistive devices for activities of daily living, such as crutches, wheelchairs, hearing aids, or a white cane. However, they wanted to rent or lend assistive devices for sports and outdoor activities. Information about accessibility was reported to be very important but often lacking. To allow for more universally designed services and environments, nature-based travel destinations should aim to provide assistive devices for activities along with ordinary equipment, information about it on their websites, and competent staff to make nature-based experiences accessible for all.
{"title":"Accessible tourism – Nature-based activities for all, needs for assistive devices and information among people with disabilities","authors":"Tor Erik Heyerdahl Nyquist , Reidun Birgitta Jahnsen , Trond Bliksvaer (Bliksvær) , Ana Koncul , Karin Marie Antonsen","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100982","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Involvement in nature-based activities is shown to increase health and wellbeing. However, some people with disabilities require assistive devices to be able to participate in such activities. By exploring the needs of persons with disabilities regarding assistive devices, this study aims to gain a better understanding of how accessible nature-based experiences for all can be supported. The article builds on a large-scale digital survey of the needs and experiences of persons with disabilities who were contacted through user organizations and a rehabilitation center in Norway. Most of the respondents reported that they brought their own assistive devices for activities of daily living, such as crutches, wheelchairs, hearing aids, or a white cane. However, they wanted to rent or lend assistive devices for sports and outdoor activities. Information about accessibility was reported to be very important but often lacking. To allow for more universally designed services and environments, nature-based travel destinations should aim to provide assistive devices for activities along with ordinary equipment, information about it on their websites, and competent staff to make nature-based experiences accessible for all.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100982"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145578531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100981
Clara Climent-Oltra , Lauren J. Lieberman , Laura Jiménez-Monteagudo
This study analyzes the perceptions and values acquired by participants with and without disabilities during Inclusive Outdoor Physical Activities (IOPA) using the Joëlette hiking wheelchair. The research was conducted in Spain and Lebanon, following a qualitative, descriptive, and interpretative methodology. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, designed in three different formats according to participant profiles. A total of 39 participants took part in the study, including 15 in Lebanon (6 pilots, 5 organization representatives, and 4 people with disabilities and families) and 24 in Spain (9 pilots, 6 organization representatives, and 9 people with disabilities and families). Data analysis was carried out using the Atlas.ti software through a mixed coding process. Deductive categories were established based on the study's objectives, and additional emerging categories were identified inductively from participants' discourse. Three main categories emerged: awareness, values, and benefits. The first showed that participation in IOPA promotes awareness of disability through direct contact and reflection. The second revealed that pilots acquired values such as inclusion, solidarity, teamwork, empathy, responsibility, and self-confidence. The third highlighted that passengers experienced social and psychological benefits, including increased motivation, emotional well-being, socialization, and access to natural environments. The study emphasizes the transformative potential of IOPA and proposes new lines of research in this field.
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Pub Date : 2025-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100970
Faizan Ali , Uzeyir Kement , Sinan Baran Bayar , Seden Dogan , Gul Erkol Bayram
This study uses the Extended Reasoned Action Theory to investigate various determinants of individuals' intentions to engage in wingsuit activities. Additionally, it aims to determine whether the ambiguity of death moderates this intention. Two hundred thirty-five participants were recruited via the Qualtrics online survey platform to participate in the study. Using SmartPLS, various assessments were performed, including evaluating the measurement and the structural model. The empirical findings of this study reveal that a belief in luck positively influences one's propensity for risk-taking attitudes. Additionally, the perception of risk and subjective norms positively impact the inclination towards adventurous behavior. However, fatalism does not impact the risk-taking attitudes. Interestingly, the ambiguity of death was not found to moderate the relationship between the belief in luck and risk-taking attitudes. This research significantly contributes to the existing knowledge concerning the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and its application to extreme sports. Furthermore, the implications arising from these findings are discussed in depth, particularly in the domain of wingsuit activities.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100976
Vanessa Teles da Mota , Estela Farías-Torbidoni , Catherine Pickering
National parks are popular destinations for tourism and recreation. Managing visitors to such parks is important, including assessing where people go and when, and what biodiversity they value. Traditional on-site methods are starting to be complemented with online user-created content, and this could include data from iNaturalist, a massively popular (>8 million users) biodiversity citizen science platform. To assess if iNaturalist data can provide insights into visitation to parks with a wide range of types of landscapes, metadata consisting of 96,070 observations on iNaturalist posted by 5378 people, posting geolocated in the National Parks Network in Spain (2015–2024) were downloaded and analyzed. Visitors' spatial distribution on and off-trails varied among the 16 national parks, with a strong positive correlation with the total distance of trails per national park (Spearman's rs = 0.94, p = < 0.001). Monthly patterns of visitation based on iNaturalist metadata were similar to official records (Spearman's rs = 0.69, p = 0.005) as was the spatial distribution of observations per national park was correlated to the relative number of visits per km2 (Spearman's rs = 0.51, p = 0.004). Plants (52 %), birds (22 %) and insects (12 %) were the most common biodiversity recorded on iNaturalist, including national parks in mainland Spain and in the Canary Islands. Although there are some important limitations with online user-created content, the utility of iNaturalist can be extended to complementing on-site visitation assessment methods, helping managers and researchers to expand the types of visitor data they can access, including spatiotemporal patterns of visitation and biodiversity values at a national scale.
国家公园是旅游和娱乐的热门目的地。管理这些公园的游客很重要，包括评估人们去哪里、什么时候去，以及他们重视的生物多样性。传统的现场方法开始被在线用户创建的内容所补充，这可能包括来自iNaturalist的数据，iNaturalist是一个非常受欢迎的（800万用户）生物多样性公民科学平台。为了评估iNaturalist数据是否可以提供对具有各种景观类型的公园的参观情况的见解，下载并分析了5378人在iNaturalist上发布的96,070条观察数据，这些数据位于西班牙国家公园网络（2015-2024）。游客在步道内外的空间分布在16个国家公园之间存在差异，且与每个国家公园的步道总距离呈正相关（Spearman’s rs = 0.94, p = < 0.001）。基于iNaturalist元数据的月访问模式与官方记录相似（Spearman’s rs = 0.69, p = 0.005），每个国家公园的观测空间分布与每平方公里的相对访问量相关（Spearman’s rs = 0.51, p = 0.004）。植物（52%）、鸟类（22%）和昆虫（12%）是iNaturalist网站记录的最常见的生物多样性，包括西班牙大陆和加那利群岛的国家公园。尽管在线用户创建内容存在一些重要的局限性，但iNaturalist的效用可以扩展到补充现场访问评估方法，帮助管理人员和研究人员扩展他们可以访问的访客数据类型，包括访问的时空模式和国家尺度的生物多样性价值。
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Pub Date : 2025-10-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100978
Kerstin Heuwinkel , Markus Pillmayer
This research note explores the evolution of women's engagement in outdoor activities, tracing its origins to the 19th century when hiking was a feminist act, challenging societal conventions. Today, women actively participate in pursuits such as hiking and mountaineering yet face increasing incidents of various forms of gender-based violence (GBV), highlighted in recent media coverage. This note addresses four research questions: 1) Which forms of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual assault (SHSA), and GBV exist in hiking? 2) How do (solo) female hikers articulate sexism, gender-based risk and violence? 3) Which issues remain unspoken or underrepresented? 4) How do female (solo) hikers manage gender-based risks? The research note includes a literature review and a content analysis of female hiker blogs to structure initial findings. The text emphasizes the need for comprehensive research strategies focusing on gender dynamics, power and hidden structures in outdoor sport. In addition, we are proposing a framework to address the rise in (solo) female hiking, underscoring the importance of fostering safe, transparent environments in the outdoor sector.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100979
Alonso Sanchez-Rodriguez , Victor Sanchez-Sanz , Åge Vigane
Friluftsliv, a Norwegian tradition of immersion in nature, has been celebrated as both cultural heritage and pedagogy. This study explores whether its values—resilience, ecological awareness, and social cohesion—can transcend their Nordic origins and be meaningfully integrated into other educational contexts. Within a European Union–funded Blended Intensive Program, sixty university students from five countries participated in a four-day hiking experience in the Norwegian mountains, complemented by theoretical sessions on friluftsliv and future preparedness. Using a qualitative descriptive–analytical approach based on open-ended questionnaires, the research examined students’ reflections on personal development, environmental awareness, resilience, intercultural interaction, and professional application. Results show that participants, regardless of prior outdoor experience, reported self-discovery, strengthened resilience, heightened ecological concern, and enriched intercultural learning. Many described the experience as transformative, a “game-changer” for both their personal lives and future teaching practice. Findings suggest that friluftsliv can serve as a transferable pedagogical framework in higher education, fostering adaptability and environmental stewardship in an uncertain world.
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Forest management needs a multifunctional model that balances recreational use and forestry, contributing to the broader goals of land conservation, carbon neutrality, and local community development. This study explored the potential of forest rental services as a novel approach to integrating recreational use and forestry, focusing on a case study in Higashishirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Forest rental services, initiated in December 2020, offer users with the exclusive and free right to use small plots based on an annual contract without the need for capital investment by the forest owners and with continuing silviculture, thereby facilitating a dual-purpose model for forest management. This study employed questionnaires for actual users and social media analysis to investigate the contributions of forest rental services to increasing interest in forestry, and attribution types, activity types and preferred forest settings of users. The findings revealed that over half of the users had no prior experience with planted forests, but their engagement with forest rentals significantly increased their knowledge of and interest in forestry. Activities at the rental sites predominantly included ground cultivation, bonfires, outdoor cooking, and camping. The preferred forest settings highlighted a substantial inclination toward broadleaf forests and thinned young planted forests. Social media analysis further underscored the importance of active recreational activities like camping, cooking and doing bonfire rather than the static experience of the forest landscape. Forest rental services can serve as an effective tool for connecting urban residents with forestry, thereby supporting the sustainability of forestry and local communities.
{"title":"Exploring the potential of forest rental services as a tool for balancing recreation and forestry","authors":"Yusuke Mizuuchi , Keita Otsuka , Yuki Sakamoto , Naomi Shimpo","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100931","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest management needs a multifunctional model that balances recreational use and forestry, contributing to the broader goals of land conservation, carbon neutrality, and local community development. This study explored the potential of forest rental services as a novel approach to integrating recreational use and forestry, focusing on a case study in Higashishirakawa village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Forest rental services, initiated in December 2020, offer users with the exclusive and free right to use small plots based on an annual contract without the need for capital investment by the forest owners and with continuing silviculture, thereby facilitating a dual-purpose model for forest management. This study employed questionnaires for actual users and social media analysis to investigate the contributions of forest rental services to increasing interest in forestry, and attribution types, activity types and preferred forest settings of users. The findings revealed that over half of the users had no prior experience with planted forests, but their engagement with forest rentals significantly increased their knowledge of and interest in forestry. Activities at the rental sites predominantly included ground cultivation, bonfires, outdoor cooking, and camping. The preferred forest settings highlighted a substantial inclination toward broadleaf forests and thinned young planted forests. Social media analysis further underscored the importance of active recreational activities like camping, cooking and doing bonfire rather than the static experience of the forest landscape. Forest rental services can serve as an effective tool for connecting urban residents with forestry, thereby supporting the sustainability of forestry and local communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100931"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100975
Denise Fecker
Outdoor sport and recreation organizations are key service providers in tourism, with their staff serving as their most valuable asset; however, while studies have explored employee retention in tourism service contexts, such as hotels and restaurants, research on employee commitment of outdoor sport guides is limited. This study examines the role of four different workplace commitments and their antecedents for the first time in the context of outdoor service providers in the tourism sector. Using a quantitative design, an online survey was conducted with 200 snowsport instructors in one of Austria's largest winter tourism destinations. Structural equation modeling was applied with SmartPLS 4.0 to test the hypotheses. This study's findings show that workplace commitments of outdoor sport guides are interrelated, and their explanations vary across the targets. Place attachment, camaraderie, meaningful work, and perceived organizational support significantly predict different workplace commitments. The results suggest that workplace commitments vary in their outcomes and highlight the roles of destinations and their stakeholders in employee retention and work outcomes within tourism and outdoor recreation sectors. This study establishes a workplace commitment framework that provides nuanced insights into the different emotional bonds of outdoor sport guides as a specific group of service workers in tourism.
{"title":"Peaks and passion: Examining the dynamics of workplace commitments among outdoor sport guides","authors":"Denise Fecker","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100975","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100975","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Outdoor sport and recreation organizations are key service providers in tourism, with their staff serving as their most valuable asset; however, while studies have explored employee retention in tourism service contexts, such as hotels and restaurants, research on employee commitment of outdoor sport guides is limited. This study examines the role of four different workplace commitments and their antecedents for the first time in the context of outdoor service providers in the tourism sector. Using a quantitative design, an online survey was conducted with 200 snowsport instructors in one of Austria's largest winter tourism destinations. Structural equation modeling was applied with SmartPLS 4.0 to test the hypotheses. This study's findings show that workplace commitments of outdoor sport guides are interrelated, and their explanations vary across the targets. Place attachment, camaraderie, meaningful work, and perceived organizational support significantly predict different workplace commitments. The results suggest that workplace commitments vary in their outcomes and highlight the roles of destinations and their stakeholders in employee retention and work outcomes within tourism and outdoor recreation sectors. This study establishes a workplace commitment framework that provides nuanced insights into the different emotional bonds of outdoor sport guides as a specific group of service workers in tourism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100975"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145362644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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