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Puustinen, J.; Pouta, E.; Neuvonen, M.; Sievänen, T., |
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National Park Characteristics, Regional Setting and Visitor Flows |
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2006 |
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Exploring the Nature of Management |
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MMV 3 - Proceedings |
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78-79 |
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MMV3, Recreation, national parks, visitor flows, regression analysis, classification |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 604 |
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2426 |
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Neuvonen, M.; Pouta, E.; Sievänen, T., |
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Title |
National park visitors’ attachment to a place, quality perceptions and visit intention |
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2008 |
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Management for Protection and Sustainable Development |
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MMV 4 - Proceedings |
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378-383 |
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MMV4, Outdoor recreation, nature-based tourism, place attachment, rural tourism |
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National parks are often national icons and destinations for nature tourists. Park tourism is seen as a substantial cultural, social and economic phenomenon, which is going to be even more important with decreasing space and expanding human populations. Structural changes, such as decreasing primary production, in the economic base of rural communities, have forced communities to seek alternatives in order to maintain their economic viability. Park tourism is identified as an opportunity to strengthen the rural economy in regions that can provide natural amenity values and recreation services. The case study from three national parks in Finland, Seitseminen, Linnansaari and Repovesi National Park, analyses how park visitors relate to the park and surrounding rural area. The purpose of the study was to examine how the place attachment with intervening factors of quality of services and recreation environment explain the intention to visit the area again in the future. Data (N=736) was gathered by a mail questionnaire for park visitors. The majority, 64-71% of visitors planned to visit the park in next five years and 55-68% the area. About 10% of the visitors felt attached to the surrounding countryside of a national park. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was applied here to test how the hypothesized causal structure fits to observed data. The preliminary results showed that place attachment interacted positively and statistically significantly with the perceived quality of services and recreation environment. Those who were keen to a place are more satisfied to the services and recreation environment. Park visitors’ attachment to a region and satisfaction with the local services and hospitality correlated positively with their intention to revisit the region. |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 1054 |
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2648 |
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Sievänen, T.; Neuvonen, M.; Pouta, E., |
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Title |
National park visitors’ interest to use tourism services in rural communities |
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2008 |
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Management for Protection and Sustainable Development |
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MMV 4 - Proceedings |
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390-395 |
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MMV4, Nature-based tourism, visitor, visitor segmentation |
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National park visitation can have a considerable economic impact in rural areas. It is valuable to understand the factors, which explain the interest and use of tourism services in rural communities in the vicinity of national parks. The aim of this study were to analyse if there were visitor groups whose intention to use the services differed and what kinds of services were the most interesting for these visitor groups. The study focused on the association between the visitor segments based on service use intention, and background factors such as attitudes towards country-side in general, and visitors’ socioeconomic background. Furthermore, the relation between visitor segments and visit intentions and satisfaction were studied. We examined these topics in two regions in Finland, where tourism industry is not a strong economic actor at the present. The data was collected in two national parks, Seitseminen and Linnansaari, in Central and Eastern Finland. The number of responses was 554, and the response rate was 68. Preliminary results show that national park visitors can be divided into two main groups considering the interest in using tourism services. First part of park visitors were outdoor recreation oriented and interested to use non-motorized or motorized outdoor activities such as fishing tours, nature studying excursions and snowmobile safaris. The other part of the park visitors was ‘general tourists’ who were interested mainly in tourism services such as accommodation and restaurants, etc. The visitor groups differed with respect their intention to visit the park and the region, countryside attitudes and socioeconomic background variables. The results of this study may help tourism enterprises in surrounding rural communities to find the right clientele for their services and products. For the park managers this information is valuable when planning the future management policies and actions. The understanding and recognition of visitors’ overall needs, when visiting the park and the surrounding countryside, is also needed by actors such as municipality decision makers and inhabitants of rural communities. |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 1058 |
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2650 |
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Pouta, E.; Sievanen, T.; Neuvonene, M. |
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Accounting for cultural ecosystem services: a case of recreation services in Finland |
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2018 |
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Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas – ABSTRACT BOOK |
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MMV 9 - Proceedings |
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260-261 |
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MMV9 |
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In this study of cultural ecosystem service accounting the aim was to assess nature-based recreation in Finland by applying both physical and monetary measures. This presentation describes the methods and data sets used in analyses of indicators, thoughts of advantages and shortcomings, and identification of the gaps in data and methods. The presentation also discusses the opportunities to use the approach in broader European context. |
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4126 |
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Pouta, E.; Sievänen, T.; Neuvonen, M., |
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Profiling recreational users of national parks, national hiking areas and wilderness areas in Finland |
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2004 |
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Policies, Methods and Tools for Visitor Management |
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MMV 2 - Proceedings |
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347-354 |
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MMV2 |
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Finland’s national parks, wilderness areas and national hiking areas play an important role in tourism and recreation, in addition to their primary purpose of nature conservation. Very little attention has been paid by research to the factors that influence the use of these state-owned areas by different segments of the population. The results of logistic and negative binomial regression models based on population-survey data indicate that the users of these state-owned recreation areas have a higher than average level of education and are more likely to be white-collar employees. The users were typically enthusiasts of particular forms of outdoor recreation, above all skiing and camping. The availability of state-owned recreation areas in the home municipality increased the likelihood of using them. The number of user days spent in these areas tended to be larger among those whose permanent residence was in eastern Finland or in a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. Small-sized household and abundance of leisure time also increased the amount of use. |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 324 |
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2370 |
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Pouta, E.; Soini, K.; Vaarala, H.; Uusitalo, M.; Kivinen, T., |
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Local residents’ sense of place, recreational use and perceptions of rural landscape |
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2010 |
Publication |
Recreation, tourism and nature in a changing world |
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MMV 5 - Proceedings |
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147-148 |
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MMV5, recreational use of agricultural landscape, sense of place, landscape perceptions |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 164 |
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2742 |
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Sievänen, T.; Neuvonen, M.; Pouta, E., |
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Nation-wide outdoor recreation demand monitoring |
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2010 |
Publication |
Recreation, tourism and nature in a changing world |
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MMV 5 - Proceedings |
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270-272 |
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MMV5, recreation inventory, population survey, trends |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 200 |
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2799 |
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Lankia, T., Kopperoinen, L., Pouta, E., Neuvonen, M., |
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Title |
Mapping outdoor recreation benefits in Finland using national inventory data |
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2012 |
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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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MMV 6 - Proceedings |
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120-121 |
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MMV6 |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 427 |
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2871 |
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Lankia, T., Pouta, E., |
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Effects of water quality changes on recreation benefits in Finland: Combined travel cost and contingent behavior model |
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2012 |
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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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128-129 |
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MMV6 |
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ILEN @ m.sokopp @ 431 |
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2875 |
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Tienhaara, A.; Pouta, E.; Janmere, L.; Kolstrup, C.L.; Pinzke, S.; Järvinen, M. |
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Consumer preferences for riding lessons in Finland, Sweden and Latvia |
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2014 |
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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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30-32 |
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MMV7 |
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3119 |
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