Pub Date : 2024-10-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100832
Shi Lin, Sreetheran Maruthaveeran, Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof
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Sleep is one of the most important but relatively weak research fields in camping tourism. Utilizing Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Social Network Analysis, and Sentiment Analysis, this study collected tweet data to construct a framework for camping sleep. The results indicate that seven major topics make up the camping sleep framework, with two relationship paths focusing on pro pro-nature experience as its cornerstone. For one thing, the connection with nature in camping alters the sleep environment or individual physical condition, and thus campers' sleep quality requires more support systems. For another, sleep forms a part of the camping experience which is deeply embedded in nature's connection and brings positive benefits. The most surprising finding is that pro nature experience makes tourists have positive emotions even though they sleep badly at night. Our results can provide insight into well-being experiences in tourism, especially for improving individuals' healthy lifestyles.
Management implications
1.
Enhance the sleeping system for campers by improving camping facilities and creating an optimal sleeping environment.
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Increase eco-friendly activities to bring campers closer to nature and enrich their overall camping experience.
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Encourage a healthy lifestyle by integrating health-focused activities into the camping experience to promote awareness of the importance of maintaining good sleep habits.
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Provide additional emotional support services such as psychological counseling or meditation courses to ensure campers have a positive overall sleep experience.
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Integrate local cultural and environmental features into camping projects considering sleep as a new focal point and designing camping experiences that reflect local culture.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100828
Dagmara Chylińska
<div><div>Descent into the underground requires from explorers not only a high level of physical endurance, technical skills, and ability to use specialized equipment, but also psychological adaptation to severe cave conditions: the darkness, the coldness, and the unknown. The paper focuses on mental states and emotions that accompany cave descents at every stage of the tourist experience. The study examines cavers' tourist motivations as well as perceived benefits of this kind of physical activity. The research aims at the Polish caving community. The study indicates that participation in cave exploration for respondents undertaking cave challenges outside of regular tourism is generally the result of a combination of equally strong factors, rather than a single dominant motivation. The benefits of cave exploration are inwardly directed, those related to creating one’s external image were of marginal importance among survey respondents. A state of ‘focus and concentration’ accompanies cavers during almost the entire stay in cave what not lessen a sense of overall satisfaction, joy, and excitation. To some extent, anxiety, anger, and rarely fear, shape the cave tourist experience.</div></div><div><h3>Management implications</h3><div>The tourism product of any kinds of tourism should meet the expectations and needs of their participants. Dedicated speleotourists visiting sites outside mass tourism in popular show caves are leading by the complex of motivations typical for tourism as such. However, in the study analysed, the search for beauty and aesthetic impressions next to experiencing the unknown and novelty are explicitly significant motivators for cave exploration, even more important than looking for sport challenges and physical effort. This observation underlines cognitive and emotional meaning, not only sport character of cave exploration.</div><div>The research might suggest the general direction in preparation of the offer for dedicated cave tourists: they do not require the creation of new infrastructure (e.g. in terms of cave accessibility) or provision of new amenities, but possibilities of the improvement of technical skills, while enjoying the beauty of the caves, with maintaining a balance between commercialization and the sense of uniqueness and exclusivity of the product.</div><div>As pristine and unexplored caves constitute a ‘non-renewable resource,’ thus there is a need for redefinition of ‘the unknown’ and ‘the new’ concepts in cave tourism practiced by dedicated cave tourists (far beyond the geographical sense). The result of this procedure might help meet the expectations of dedicated cave tourists toward their tourist experiences and the attractiveness of sites.</div><div>The explorations of dedicated cave tourists occur outside or on the fringes of tourism. To include them in the mainstream of broader tourism, it is necessary to find a balance between commercialization and the uniqueness and exclusivity of the product. T
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Pub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100829
Zhibo Tian , Qiang Zhang , Kyungsik Kim
<div><div>With increasing emphasis on environmental issues in outdoor leisure tourism, understanding the environmentally responsible behavioral intention (ERBI) of tourists is crucial to sustainable development. We explored the novel chain-mediating effect of experiential value on ERBI through place attachment and biospheric value among 300 recreational climbers in Yangshuo County, Guilin City. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM), we found that the experiential value of climbing resorts had a direct effect on place attachment and biospheric value. Experiential value and place attachment had a moderate effect on ERBI, while biospheric value had a positive effect on ERBI. However, experiential value and place attachment indirectly influenced ERBI through the mediating effect of biospheric value. Finally, experiential value indirectly affected ERBI via the chain-mediating effects of place attachment and biospheric value. <strong>These findings extend existing theoretical frameworks by elucidating previously underexplored chain-mediation relationships. Practical insights derived from this study include strategies for enhancing the management and environmental protection of rock-climbing resorts. These strategies should focus on deepening the emotional connection between recreational climbers and the environment through innovative marketing approaches that emphasize tailored environmental protection activities, community involvement, and sustainable tourism practices.</strong></div></div><div><h3>Management implications</h3><div>The findings suggest three innovative strategies, building on existing practices, to foster sustainable tourism in rock-climbing resorts by connecting tourists with the environment. First, immersive programs such as ecotourism, wildlife observation, and multimedia experiences would enhance experiential value. These programs can promote environmentally responsible behavior by actively engaging tourists in environmental education and encouraging deeper interactions with nature, fostering place attachment and biospheric values. Second, content marketing, including storytelling and environmental campaigns that emphasize the ecological significance of rock-climbing resorts could position them as advocates for environmental conservation, especially ecosystem and biodiversity preservation. Third, personalized marketing can strengthen place attachment. Tourists could share personal photos on social media and receive symbolic rewards, such as sustainable tourism certificates. These strategies will actively engage tourists in environmental conservation and sustainable tourism efforts, foster long-term participation, and enhance the unique appeal of resorts as leaders in eco-friendly tourism.</div></div><div><h3>Management implications</h3><div>The findings suggest three innovative strategies, building on existing practices, to foster sustainable tourism in rock-climbing resorts by connecting t
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The presence of tourists may lead to environmental damage and vandalism, which can affect local community and tourist relationships, leading to dissatisfaction. The persistence of vandalism in natural environments can lead to detrimental effects; hence, identifying its triggering and inhibitory factors is crucial. The Fandoqhlou Forest region, as a tourist destination in Ardabil Province, has been subjected to various types of damage. The aim of this study is to assess the factors influencing and controlling damage resulting from tourism activities in the Fandoqhlou region. The study population included tourists and the local community who visited the forest area during the spring and summer months of 2023. Additionally, qualitative data analysis was conducted via Atlas Ti software. On the basis of the interview results, 479 initial codes were identified, from which 62 basic themes, 15 organizing themes, and 2 global themes were derived. The research findings identified the factors influencing the occurrence and control of vandalism in the study area. According to the results, environmental disregard, alongside tourists’ low cultural and educational awareness, was identified as a significant factor influencing vandalism. To mitigate this behavioral disorder, the important role of social media in disseminating relevant information and creating a platform for nature conservation in tourism activities and visits to natural sites can be emphasized.
Management implications
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Management programs should focus on enhancing environmental education and cultural awareness among both tourists and local communities need to mitigate vandalism and destructive behaviors at the natural forests and leverages social media to promote nature conservation.
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Strengthening collaboration and foster between local communities, government agencies, and private sectors, need to be established to increase surveillance, enforce penalties and supporting environmental guardians are essential for effective monitoring and deterrence of destructive behaviors.
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Implementing stricter law enforcement, along with establishing facilities and community empowerment programs, can strengthen forest protection, reduce vandalism, and promote a sustainable relationship between tourism and local communities.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100827
Manuel Spiller
There is a need to bridge the disconnection between humans and nature through conscious landscape architectural designs. Recreation infrastructure can be a tool to guide humans towards a stronger connection with nature, improving health, welfare, and care for environmental issues. Considering Haraway's (2016) work on making kin with the more-than-human other and being with the trouble through cognisant presence of the self within a natural world, it appears that progress towards human-nature connectedness is stunted by commodification of the natural environment. This is reflected in nature discourse, and a risk perception driven by fear of nature which has become the unknown. A mixed methods study of the Barefoot Path Spalt, Germany, implementing document analysis, interviews, and criticism incorporating autoethnography and expert field assessments, generated knowledge on how trail designs can improve human-nature connectedness. The study based its findings on three major trail attributes, environmentally conscious trail design, the barefoot component, and interactive equipment and art. Results show that an intrinsic connection with the environment can be targeted with intentional trail design that entices curiosity, gradually guiding participants to build human-nature connectedness, contesting false risk perception.
Management implications
Results show that well designed trails have the potential to enhance human-nature connectedness with relatively cost-effective implementations. Future trail development and upgrades should consider (1) Conscious integration of a trail into the natural environment through a low-impact approach. (2) Using a creative feature that delivers a unique, nature-centric experience, for example through sensory immersion. (3) Installing both play equipment and art to mask the border between trail and context environment makes use of, and encourages more traffic to a trail, generating positive nature-contextual experiences.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100816
Kyle Maurice Woosnam , Dongoh Joo , Cassandra Johnson Gaither , Manuel Alector Ribeiro , José J. Sánchez , Robert Brooks , Do-Kyoung Lee
This study aimed to test a model derived from the social exchange theory and the theory of planned behavior in determining the role that antecedents play in explaining residents' behavioral support for tourism in a rapidly developing destination. Data were collected from 511 residents of McCurtain County in Oklahoma, USA, using onsite interception and online sampling strategies. Based on a two-step structural equation modeling analysis, eight out of the 10 proposed hypotheses were supported. Of the four potential predictors of residents’ attitudinal support for tourism, perceived benefits, perceived costs, and trust in local government were significant, explaining 63% of the variance in the construct. Attitudinal support, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control then significantly explained 84% of the variance in behavioral intentions to support tourism. These intentions, in turn, significantly explained 44% of the variance in behavioral support for tourism. Implications, limitations, and future research suggestions are discussed at the close of the article.
Management Implications
Residents' support for tourism within McCurtain County in Oklahoma, USA, is not very strong mostly because residents do not feel that they can trust the government in making decisions regarding tourism and that they have limited power to contribute to tourism planning and management. To address the lack of trust in government, efforts should be made to increase transparency in tourism decision-making. This could occur through the greater inclusion of residents in planning sessions and sharing reports with the public (e.g., sharing minutes and reports via websites, radios, newspapers, etc.). The government should find ways to include more residents in tourism-related decision-making that will affect not only tourism businesses but also the community as a whole. This could look like a regular assessment of residents’ perspectives through conducting surveys, holding focus group interviews, or hosting town hall meetings.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-14DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100815
Jayson Seaman , Andrew D. Coppens , Cindy L. Hartman , Amanda Bastoni , Kate Moscouver , Courtney LaChaine , Janet Gronneberg
Many state and federal agencies are promoting outdoor recreation as an economic development strategy in natural resource-dependent rural regions of the United States that have experienced sustained divestment and outmigration after the collapse of traditional extractive industries. An underappreciated dimension of these efforts is how to prepare a future workforce from within rural communities that can help develop this diverse and growing sector. This article reports on an intervention delivered to middle and high-school aged youth in a rural area in the northeastern U.S. that examined whether outdoor recreation activities can serve as an accessible context for informal STEM learning. Results show strong engagement regardless of sociodemographic barriers, suggesting that outdoor recreation activities may be harnessed to engage youth who have historically been excluded from STEM and other career pathways, yet whose future participation is important for achieving rural development aims.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-13DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100817
Seong Ok Lyu , Young Jin Choi , Se Hee Choi , Jinwon Kim
This study investigates golf tourists’ preferences for diverse social distancing measures implemented by golf courses during the COVID-19 pandemic using a discrete choice experiment. With a sample of 430 South Korean golfers, this study provides a better understanding of how gender affects their trade-offs among several precautionary policies. Results suggest the maximum occupancy of each restaurant table is considered a critical factor in reducing infection risk, while golfers are willing to pay KR₩10,747 for a one-person reduction in table occupancy. Gender groups reveal different preference patterns regarding several safety measures. Female golfers show a higher willingness to pay for several preventive measures, particularly restaurant occupancy limits and locker spacing. These findings provide insights for golf course managers to develop targeted strategies that enhance customer safety and satisfaction during future health crises.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2024.100813
Nien-Te Kuo , Lu-Ping Lin , Kuo-Chien Chang , Yi-Sung Cheng
This research investigated the effects of destination attributes, enduring involvement, place attachment, and satisfaction on mountain bikers’ behavioral intentions by incorporating the Mehrabian-Russell model. A survey approach was employed to test this model. Data was collected from 682 mountain bikers in the Taiwan Bike Association and Taiwan Cyclist Federation from March 2022 to July 2022. This was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Our results indicate that the destination attributes of tourism attraction and accessibility and amenities and complementary services affect enduring involvement both positively and negatively. While tourism attraction and accessibility positively affect place attachment and satisfaction, amenities and complementary services positively affect place attachment but not satisfaction. Moreover, enduring involvement, place attachment, and satisfaction positively affect behavioral intentions. Enduring involvement, place attachment, and satisfaction had mediating effects on the relationship between tourism attraction and accessibility and behavioral intentions. Enduring involvement also played a mediating role in the relationship between amenities and complementary services and behavioral intentions. We discuss both the theoretical and managerial implications of these findings.
Management implications
The findings of the current study have the following management implications.
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Excellent natural resources and accessibility are essential for positive assessments of cycling routes.
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Tourism attraction and accessibility is a strong predictor of enduring involvement, place attachment, and satisfaction.
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Professional trail building and ongoing maintenance can mitigate adverse environmental impacts and improve the mountain biking experience.
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An oversupply of amenities and services can diminish mountain bikers' sense of accomplishment and the pleasure and relaxation of the activity.
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