From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination

Fefer, Jessica P.; Hallo, Jeffrey C.; Collins, Rachel; Baldwin, Elizabeth; Brownlee, Matthew T. J.

doi:10.1080/01490400.2021.1898497

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“…Crowd is arguably the most interesting topic in outdoor recreation research and can be defined as a negative response or assessment of the level of concurrent use in a space (Fefer et al, 2021). Therefore, the difference between crowding and density should be defined.…”

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Determining the Effects of Pre and Post Rafting Experience on Perceived Crowding: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Çetinkaya,

Güngör,

Orhan

et al. 2024

Sage Open

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Identifying crowding norms is a crucial part of modern management frameworks intended to assist in protecting park resources and the quality of the visitor experience. Determining the factors affecting perceived crowding is a subject that has always been emphasized by park and protected area managers and researchers. Experience is typically regarded as having previously visited the area or engaged in an activity in prior literature. This study aims to analyze the potential effects of “experience” in determining crowding, based on visual research methods, from a perspective other than the two approaches in the literature. A quasi-experimental research design was applied to the study. Eleven images created with photography techniques were presented to 32 voluntary participants for data collection. According to the findings, participants had different perceptions about crowding before and after the activity, and at the end of the interviews conducted to understand the reasons for this difference, “enjoy” was determined as the main underlying cause. As a result, it is suggested that personal experiences about the activity should be considered in norm-determining studies.

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Determining the Effects of Pre and Post Rafting Experience on Perceived Crowding: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Çetinkaya,

Güngör,

Orhan

et al. 2024

Sage Open

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“…Outdoor recreation settings that afford privacy serve as refuges for creative and reflective thought, emotional release, and intimate communication, all of which are consistent with the goals of forest therapy [76,155]. Conflicts can occur when the presence, intensity, or actions of others interfere with people's ability to achieve privacy, solitude, or other goals of their recreational engagement and can result in stress, dissatisfaction, and visitor displacement [77,[156][157][158]. Recreational use conflicts are often asymmetrical, and because of the importance placed on privacy, solitude, and reliance on quality forest settings, forest therapy participants are likely to be vulnerable to experiencing conflicts from other trail users who come in large numbers or whose goals are more social-, speed-, or equipment-oriented [159][160][161].…”

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Key Characteristics of Forest Therapy Trails: A Guided, Integrative Approach

Gobster

Kruger

Schultz³

et al. 2023

Forests

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Forest therapy is an emerging holistic health practice that uses multisensory immersive engagements in forest settings to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes. Many forest therapy engagements take place via slow walks along a trail to optimally experience the array of sensory phenomena afforded along the route, yet surprisingly few forest therapy studies to date have investigated the characteristics of forest sites and trails that give rise to healthful experiences. In this research, we employ a hybrid approach to understand the conditions and features that contribute to a good forest therapy trail, using interviews with forest therapy guides to identify and highlight concepts for further refinement and structuring via a broad, integrative review of the relevant research and planning literature. Through this iterative approach, we identify and describe three site-related criteria (landscape character and quality, tranquility, and accessibility) and two trail-related criteria (design and construction and key features and qualities), each with a number of sub-criteria detailing specific conditions and considerations. This effort helps build a conceptual foundation and evidence base for assessment procedures that can be used to identify existing trails and design new ones that meet the needs of forest planners, managers, guides, and participants for the growing international practice of forest therapy.

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Tourism and Tourists in Nature

Saarinen,

Lundén

2024

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism

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From Displaced to Misplaced: Exploring the Experience of Visitors Who Were ‘Crowded Out’ of Their Recreation Destination

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Determining the Effects of Pre and Post Rafting Experience on Perceived Crowding: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Determining the Effects of Pre and Post Rafting Experience on Perceived Crowding: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Key Characteristics of Forest Therapy Trails: A Guided, Integrative Approach

Tourism and Tourists in Nature

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