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Pickering, C.; Barros, A. |
Title  |
Assessing the relative impacts on plant composition and functional composition from mountain biking and hiking |
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2014 |
Publication |
The 7th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas: Local Community and Outdoor Recreation |
Abbreviated Journal |
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MMV 7 - Proceedings |
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Pages |
164-165 |
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MMV7 |
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3095 |
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Rossi, S.D.; Barros, A.; Pickering, C.; Leung, Y-F; Walden-Schreiner, C. |
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Assessing visitor spatial behaviour in mountain protected areas with crowdsourced photos: Examples from Argentina and Australia |
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2018 |
Publication |
Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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MMV 9 - Proceedings |
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81-83 |
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MMV9 |
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This study explores how geotagged photos on Flickr can reveal spatial and temporal patterns of visitor use for managers of mountain protected areas |
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4063 |
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Teles da Mota, V.; Pickering, C. |
| Title |
How can we use social media to know more about visitors to natural areas |
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2018 |
Publication |
Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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| Volume |
MMV 9 - Proceedings |
Issue |
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Pages |
72-74 |
| Keywords |
MMV9 |
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This talk presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of current research on the use of social media to monitor tourism and recreation including in natural areas. Specifically, it assesses: (1) the extent of research on social media, on social media and tourism/recreation, and social media, tourism/recreation and natural areas. This includes assessing (2) when it was published, (3) where it was published, and (4) what disciplines publish on this topic |
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4060 |
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Ballantyne, M., Pickering, C., |
| Title |
Impacts of trail networks on rare and threatened plant communities in Australia |
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2012 |
Publication |
The 6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas: Outdoor Recreation in Change – Current Knowledge and Future Challenges |
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NULL |
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MMV 6 - Proceedings |
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NULL |
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366-367 |
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MMV6 |
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NULL |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 536 |
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2980 |
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Leung, Y., Pickering, C., Cole, D., |
| Title |
Informal trails and fragmentation effects: A conceptual and research overview |
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2012 |
Publication |
The 6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas: Outdoor Recreation in Change – Current Knowledge and Future Challenges |
Abbreviated Journal |
NULL |
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MMV 6 - Proceedings |
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NULL |
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360-361 |
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MMV6 |
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NULL |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 533 |
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2977 |
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Pickering, C., Castley, G., Richardt, K., |
| Title |
Informal trails fragmenting endangered remnant vegetation in Australia |
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2012 |
Publication |
The 6th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas: Outdoor Recreation in Change – Current Knowledge and Future Challenges |
Abbreviated Journal |
NULL |
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MMV 6 - Proceedings |
Issue |
NULL |
Pages |
364-365 |
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MMV6 |
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NULL |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 535 |
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2979 |
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Pickering, C.; Norman, P., |
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Listening to public debate on Twitter about parks and other natural areas |
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2021 |
Publication |
The 10th MMV Conference: Managing outdoor recreation experiences in the Anthropocene – Resources, markets, innovations |
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MINA fagrapport |
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244-245 |
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MMV10 |
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Increasingly those monitoring and managing natural areas are interested to know what people talk about in relation to these landscapes and tourism and recreation activities within them. But obtaining such data can be challenging with methods such as surveys, focus groups, interviews and others limited in scale and time due to logistical and financial constraints. With increasing debate occurring online about a wide range of issues, it is increasingly possible to listen into such discussions to monitor who talks about what places and issues and how they feel about them, as well as monitor responses to specific events (Norman, 2020). Park agencies, governments and tourism operators are already using popular social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to communicate with visitors and others about issues relating to visitation such as natural disasters, social unrest, the closure of parks, trails, roads or other facilities, as well as the promotion of specific events and activities. Some platforms, such as Twitter, also provide the opportunity to not only listen to peoples responses to what organizations post, but also monitor more general conversations about a wide range of relevant issues in the form of 280 character tweets posted to the platform (Norman, 2020; Teles da Mota and Pickering, 2020). Here we review some of the benefits and limitations when using Twitter to monitor public debate about natural landscapes and visitation highlighted in a range of recent papers and projects. |
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4309 |
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Rossi, S.D.; Pickering, C.M.; Byrne, J.A. |
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Local community perceptions about mountain bike riding in peri-urban national parks |
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2014 |
Publication |
The 7th International Conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas: Local Community and Outdoor Recreation |
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MMV 7 - Proceedings |
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69-71 |
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MMV7 |
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3104 |
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Teles da Mota, V.; Pickering, C., |
| Title |
Mapping visitation across thousands of kilometres of beaches using social media data |
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2021 |
Publication |
The 10th MMV Conference: Managing outdoor recreation experiences in the Anthropocene – Resources, markets, innovations |
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MINA fagrapport |
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174-175 |
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MMV10 |
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Coastal areas are very popular worldwide, providing a range of important ecosystem services. Tourism and recreation are within those services, with beach tourism popular in a range of areas including the Mediterranean, east and west coast of the USA, Latin America and Australia. Assessing tourists to beaches including who visits, when and where and what they value is important for tourism and coastal managers, including to better allocate facilities and resources and for tourism campaigns. Traditional methods such as direct observations, track counters, and surveys have been used to gather such data, but with some limitations (Veal, 2018). In an attempt to complement traditional methods, metadata of posts on social media platforms have been increasingly used by researchers to assess visitation to natural areas (Ghermandi & Sinclair, 2019; Teles da Mota & Pickering, 2020), as it is often free and easy to use, and provide large amounts of user generated content. Beaches, although very popular for tourism, are only now being assessed using geolocated data from social media. This talk presents preliminary results of a comparison of temporal and spatial patterns of beach use at a regional scale, using Flickr images metadata. Specifically, it assesses: (1) who visits beaches, including locals, other nationals and international tourists, and (2) temporal and (3) spatial patterns of beach use along the whole 2,101 km coastline of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, including Sydney, the largest city in Australia with internationally renowned beaches including Bondi and Manly. |
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4278 |
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Irwin, J.; Morrison, C.; Castley, G.; Pickering, C., |
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People engaging with biodiversity in urban parks: insights from citizen science and social media for birds |
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2021 |
Publication |
The 10th MMV Conference: Managing outdoor recreation experiences in the Anthropocene – Resources, markets, innovations |
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MINA fagrapport |
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46-47 |
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MMV10 |
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Bird watching, or avitourism, is both a highly popular form of nature-based tourism as well as a recreation activity undertaken by hundreds of thousands of people, including in Australia (Lopez et al., 2020; Steven et al., 2015). Many people engaging in bird watching do so in their local area, and as a result bird watching is a popular pastime in many urban parks and other green spaces in cities. These often smaller and fragmented spaces are (i) easy to access and popular places for people to visit regularly, and (ii) able to support relatively high levels of biodiversity in otherwise low diversity urban landscapes (Catterall et al., 2010). Monitoring where people engage with nature in cities including bird watching can be challenging due to the diversity of locations and multiple ways people access and traverse them. Surveys and other methods have been used to assess the popularity of bird watching and other activities in urban parks and more broadly (Pickering et al., 2020). Recently researchers have started to utilize citizen science and social media records of birds as a way to assess where people engage with nature including in cities (Lopez et al., 2020). Here we compare two sources of data – the popular citizen science app/website iNaturalist, and images posted to the social media platform Flickr to assess how such data could be used to understand where people are bird watching. We use the large subtropical city of Bris- bane, Australia as a case study as it contains high bird diversity, many urban parks, bird watching is popular (Catterall et al., 2010) and there are hundreds of geolocated records associated with images of birds available on the two platforms for the city. |
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4218 |
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Buckley, R.; Pickering, C.; Castley, G.; Growcock, A., |
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Recent Recreation Ecology Research in Australia |
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2006 |
Publication |
Exploring the Nature of Management |
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MMV 3 - Proceedings |
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84-88 |
| Keywords |
MMV3, Recreation, ecology, Australia, impacts |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 608 |
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2428 |
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Bhatt, P.; Pickering, C., |
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Spatial and temporal patterns of visitation: Insights from Flickr images of Chitwan National Park, Nepal |
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2021 |
Publication |
The 10th MMV Conference: Managing outdoor recreation experiences in the Anthropocene – Resources, markets, innovations |
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MINA fagrapport |
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262-263 |
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MMV10 |
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Nature-based tourism is popular including to many national parks globally (Balmford et al. 2015). To conserve these natural areas and their biodiversity, while facilitating appropriate tourism, it is important to monitor visitors including when they visit, where they go and what they value. Well established monitoring methods including surveys, direct observations, interviews, track counters, ticket sales, permits, indirect observations (e.g., cameras, satellite images) as well as newer methods such as GIS tracking and Public Participatory GIS. In the last few years, social media has started to be used to monitor visitation including in protected areas. One of the most common data sources examined so far is geolocated images posted to the photo sharing platform Flickr (Teles da Mota and Pickering 2020). However, there is very limited research assessing if there is Flickr data available and if it would be useful for parks in developing countries where nature-based tourism is important, economically, socially, and environmentally but resources for monitoring are limited, such as in Nepal. Here we test how social media could be used to monitor visitation in parks in countries such as Nepal. We analyzed images about Chitwan National Park posted to Flickr, including assessing: 1) when do people visit the Park and how similar are the patterns to ground visitor data, 2) where do people go and how does this vary seasonally and 3) what do people value in the Park. |
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4316 |
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Growcock, A.J.; Pickering, C.M.; Johnston, S.W., |
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Trampling after Landscape Level Disturbance: Impacts on Subalpine Vegetation and Soils in the Australian Alps |
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2006 |
Publication |
Exploring the Nature of Management |
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MMV 3 - Proceedings |
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107-108 |
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MMV3, Trampling, subalpine, bushfires, recovery, visitation, protected areas, sustainability, Australia |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 620 |
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2434 |
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Pickering, C.; Chabau-Gibson, M.; Raneng, J. |
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Using Flickr images to assess how visitors value and use natural areas: lessons from a popular natural area on the Gold Coast, Australia |
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2018 |
Publication |
Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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MMV 9 - Proceedings |
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68-69 |
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MMV9 |
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To evaluate the benefits and limitations of using Flickr images to assess visitor use and sociocultural values we are conducting research in a range of popular natural areas. This includes the Spit, an area of beaches, dunes and forest separating the ocean from a major estuary, in the rapidly growing urban city of the Gold Coast, Australia |
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4058 |
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Pickering, C., Barros, A., Dario Rossi, S., Hernando, A. |
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What have we learned in the past 12 years about Monitoring and Management of Visitors in Recreational and Protected Areas? Current knowledge and future research directions. |
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2016 |
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Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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MMV 8 - Proceedings |
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183-186 |
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MMV8 |
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Visitation to recreational and protected areas continues to increase and diversify. This creates both challenges and opportunities for those who engage in these activities and for those who managethe destinations. With increased visitation there can be increasing environmental impacts and potential for social conflict unless appropriately managed. Recognizing the importance of these issues a group of scholars came together in 2002 to provide opportunities for academics and practitioners to exchange information by running multidisciplinary conferences every two years on Monitoring and Management of Visitors in recreational and protected areas (MMV conferences). The first conference was in Vienna, Austria in2002 Vienna, with subsequent conferences in Rovaniemi, Finland in 2004, Rapperswil, Switzerland in 2006, Montecatini Terme, Italy in 2008, Wageningen, The Netherlands in 2010, Stockholm, Sweden in 2012,Tallinn, Estonia in 2014, and here in Novid Sad, Serbia in 2016 (Figure 1). |
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3917 |
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Pickering, C., Leung, Y-F. |
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What’s the latest research on mountain biking in protected areas?: Results from the special issue of the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism |
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2016 |
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Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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MMV 8 - Proceedings |
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168-169 |
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MMV8 |
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Public use of protected areas is changing, with declines in activities such as horse riding and hunting in some locations, while others such as mountain bike riding are increasing. Mountain biking riding is popular now in a wide range of protected areas from urban parks to wilderness areas and in many countries. Such popularity energizes the discourse about how mountain biking can contribute to protected area objectives, and at what cost. There is also an increasing focus on research on social and environmental aspects of mountain biking. This interest was reflected in numerous talks on the challenges of managing and monitoring mountain biking at MMV7 (Reimann et al. 2014). Inspired by this emphasis, a special issue of the Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism was set aside to showcase the latest research on mountain biking (Pickering and Leung, 2016). |
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3911 |
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Mangachena, J.; Pickering, C., |
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Why are some species more popular with wildlife tourists: Insights from South Africa. |
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2021 |
Publication |
The 10th MMV Conference: Managing outdoor recreation experiences in the Anthropocene – Resources, markets, innovations |
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MINA fagrapport |
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134-135 |
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MMV10 |
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Wildlife tourism is popular in many countries and often takes place in protected areas including in developing countries (Higginbottom and Tribe, 2004). Income generated from this type of tourism can contribute to the economy and provide employment in rural areas, including in South Africa (Naidoo et al. 2011). Considering its potential benefits, it is important for those providing wildlife tourism opportunities to know which species are attractive to tourists and why. A common way to obtain this information is by surveying visitors in parks, and this has been done in a range of parks in South Africa, but how do the studies compare, and what species were most popular overall and why? To assess tourists preferences for wildlife tourism in South Africa, we examined data from multiple published surveys in several parks and private game reserves to: 1) examine consistency in species popularity among locations and visitors, and 2) identify species traits that may account for differences in popularity. |
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4260 |
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