Motivations, Intentions to Return and to Recommend Protected Areas: A Study in Costa Rica

Carvache‐Franco, Mauricio; Víquez-Paniagua, Ana Gabriela; Carvache‐Franco, Orly; Pérez-Orozco, Allan; Carvache‐Franco, Wilmer

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“…Recent studies explored several perspectives, namely satisfaction in terms of ecotourism experiences (e.g., [159]), satisfaction and over-tourism (e.g., [160]), impacts of the perceived value of services on satisfaction (e.g., [161]), quality perceptions and performance attributes (e.g., [161]), implementation of management measures and effects on satisfaction (e.g., [161]), among others. Regarding tourist and visitor segmentation studies, the majority of the recent studies focused on segmentation based on the motivation of tourists, including the motivation of domestic visitors (e.g., [162]) and international tourists (e.g., [163]) and motivations regarding ecotourism (e.g., [164,165]). There is also research that addressed segmentation according to tourists' climate sensitivity and climate change perceptions (e.g., [166]) and visitors' place attachment (e.g., [167]).…”

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Protected Areas and Nature-Based Tourism: A 30-Year Bibliometric Review

Silva,

Vieira

2023

Sustainability

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Nature-based tourism constitutes a major segment of world tourism. Protected areas are considered a popular theme in the literature, which is characterised by a great heterogeneity in concepts, contents, and purposes. This study analyses many of the indicators of interest related to the research on the themes of protected areas and nature-based tourism. Consequently, we aim to offer a global and updated vision of the research produced regarding these themes over the last 30 years. With bibliometric tools (Bibliometrix and VOSviewer), 1033 scientific articles were analysed. The results indicate that the research in this area exponentially increased in the last decade. Using a co-occurrence network of keywords, five major themes in this study were identified: (1) ecotourism; (2) nature conservation, biodiversity, and sustainability; (3) national parks, recreation, and climate change; (4) sustainable management and development; and (5) with a lesser degree of representation, themes related to China and ecosystem services. A timespan analysis on this network enabled the identification of six trends in the research over the last years: (i) sustainable tourism; (ii) climate change; (iii) geotourism and rural tourism; (iv) ecosystem services and cultural ecosystem services; (v); visitor studies; and (vi) wildlife tourism. Nature-based tourism plays a significant and crucial role in sustainable development. Analysing research in protected areas and nature-based tourism provides insights into key themes and emerging trends, serving as a valuable resource for knowledge advancement.

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Section: Visitor Studiesmentioning

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Protected Areas and Nature-Based Tourism: A 30-Year Bibliometric Review

Silva,

Vieira

2023

Sustainability

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“…Results of previous studies have identified certain factors that have considerable impact on tourists' hesitation toward the decision of destination choices (Kogo et al, 2020;Nadeau et al, 2008;Polas et al, 2018;Um & Crompton, 1990;Uslu & Akay, 2019). Health, travel expenses, a distance of the destination, and time constraint significantly contributed to the tourists' hesitation toward destination choice (Carvache-Franco et al, 2019;Shaktawat & Vadhera, 2020;Tepavčević et al, 2019). Fischer et al (1991) defined travel risk as the probability of a negative outcome from tourists' behaviors during traveling.…”

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How does tourist perception lead to tourist hesitation? Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Polas

Saha

Tabash

2021

Environ Dev Sustain

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The paper aims to identify the factors that cause prospective tourists’ hesitation to travel. The study also examines whether this relationship is mediated by the tourist perception in Bangladesh. The study is of quantitative design, and the relationships between tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality with tourist hesitation were explored using a sample of 322 Bangladeshi prospective tourists. The three relationships were also examined through tourist perception. By using cross-sectional data, the researchers hypothesized that tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality have a positive and significant effect on tourist hesitation. Besides, the researchers also hypothesized that tourist perception mediates the relationships between tourist knowledge, tourist health risk, and destination personality with tourist hesitation. In this respect, the Smart PLS 3.0 was employed to analyze the data. The results of the study confirm findings of previous related studies by not only highlighting the importance of tourist perception in shaping tourist hesitation but also indicating the way each dimension of tourism either enhances or inhibits the tourist hesitation. The results of the study also reveal a positive and significant relationship between tourist knowledge and tourist health risk with tourist hesitation. The analysis of data showed no conventional relationship between destination personality and tourist hesitation. Accordingly, this study identified the extent to which tourist perception mediates the relationship between tourist knowledge and destination personality with tourist hesitation. Meanwhile, the results of the study indicate the absence of any mediation role of tourist perception between tourist health risk and tourist hesitation. The study outcomes would encourage the government, policymakers, and tourism managements in creating a tailor-made responsiveness program by building a scenario that could offer more prominent sustainable tourism establishments. Besides, the results may assist stakeholders of tourist destinations in understanding tourist perception and the causes of tourist’s hesitation.

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Sustainable Management of Natural Areas: The Role of Population to Support the Protection Categories

Cordente-Rodriguez

Villanueva-Álvaro

Mondéjar-Jiménez

2021

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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The increase of environmental problems due to the tourist activity has given rise to conservation of environment in destinations. In this sense, regional, national, and international regulatory provisions have proliferated during the last years. This article analyses the perception in the society about this kind of distinguishing signs, for the specific case of protected natural areas. Since local population participates in the appropriate development of protected areas, the knowledge and the communication of protection’s forms are necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were created. This article uses a structural equation model to know the relationship between implication of local population, knowledge and perception of forms to protect natural areas, and the influence on the support of actions related with these forms of protection. This article represents a sustainable innovation with the aim of getting recommendations about the use of distinguishing signs by tourist authorities, to achieve a good knowledge and communication of these signs, and an optimal management of destinations. The main result is that the perception of the effects produced by figures of protection influences on the support of actions related with these figures; in this way, the more positive perception is, the higher the support is.

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Motivations, Intentions to Return and to Recommend Protected Areas: A Study in Costa Rica

Abstract: Ge eo oJ Jo ou ur rn na al l o of f T To ou ur ri is sm m a an nd d G Ge eo os si it te es s Year X

Cited by 4 publications

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Protected Areas and Nature-Based Tourism: A 30-Year Bibliometric Review

Protected Areas and Nature-Based Tourism: A 30-Year Bibliometric Review

How does tourist perception lead to tourist hesitation? Empirical evidence from Bangladesh

Sustainable Management of Natural Areas: The Role of Population to Support the Protection Categories

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