‘Jangseong Pyunbaek Healing Forest(JPHF)’ Visitors: Socio‐demographic Characteristics, Use Patterns and Motivational Factors by Types of Visitors

Kim, Sang-Oh; Kim, Sangmi

doi:10.13047/kjee.2018.32.2.203

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“…Nam and Lee's [8] study on the visitors of healing forests suggest that the push factors were physical, psychological, and social motivations and the pull factors were natural environment, ancillary facilities, programs, and field experiences. Kim and Kim [7] identified six motivating factors: natural experience, calmness, natural exploration, health, social interaction, and emotional relaxation; among these, natural experiences exhibited the highest percentage, indicating the importance of the natural environment and healing forest-related programs and experiences.…”

Section: Motivations To Visit Urban Forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Determination of Motivating Factors of Urban Forest Visitors through Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling

Kim

Lee

Park

2021

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Despite the unique characteristics of urban forests, the motivating factors of urban forest visitors have not been clearly differentiated from other types of the forest resource. This study aims to identify the motivating factors of urban forest visitors, using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling based on social big data. A total of 57,449 cases of social text data from social blogs containing the keyword “urban forest” were collected from Naver and Daum, the major search engines in South Korea. Then, 17,229 cases were excluded using morpheme analysis and stop word elimination; 40,110 cases were analyzed to identify the motivating factors of urban forest visitors through LDA topic modeling. Seven motivating factors—“Cafe-related Walk”, “Healing Trip”, “Daily Leisure”, “Family Trip”, “Wonderful View”, “Clean Space”, and “Exhibition and Photography”—were extracted; each contained five keywords. This study elucidates the role of forests as a place for healing, leisure, and daily exercise. The results suggest that efforts should be made toward developing various programs regarding the basic functionality of urban forests as a natural resource and a unique place to support a diversity of leisure and cultural activities.

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Section: Motivations To Visit Urban Forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most studies on forest resources investigated the visits to the aforementioned conventional forests (healing forests, natural recreation forests, national parks, etc.) rather than the urban forests themselves [6][7][8].…”

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confidence: 99%