“…Many researchers have recently insisted that understanding visitor experiences requires focusing on the attachment and emotional relationship that visitors have towards the places they visit (e.g., Brooks, Wallance, & Williams, 2006;Dvorak, Borrie, & Watson, 2013;Manzo, 2003;Mitchell, Force, Carroll, & McLaughlin, 1993;Williams, Patterson, Roggenbuck, & Watson, 1992). PPGIS studies display promising tools for studying visitor experiences also from these perspectives (e.g., Brown, Raymond, & Corcoran, 2015;Davis, Daams, van Hinsberg, & Sijtsma, 2016;Lowery & Morse, 2013). Similarly, a more qualitative approach to defining recreation settings could better emphasize the variability of how visitors perceive the settings they encounter.…”