Nature-based tourism's impact on environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior: a review and analysis of the literature and potential future research

Ardoin, Nicole M.; Wheaton, Mele; Bowers, Alison W.; Hunt, Carter A.; Durham, William H.

doi:10.1080/09669582.2015.1024258

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“…Interpretation planning is therefore crucial [169]. Although some evidence is inconsistent [170], well-planned and well-designed interpretation delivered to high standards by committed guides [24,171] is most likely to achieve satisfaction for the majority of general visitors and influence environmentally sensitive behavior and attitudes [168,172,173] and to help to manage the negative impacts of geotourism and recreation such as on-site damage [24,174].…”

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Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

2018

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Geotourism spans a range of visitor interests, from the specialist geotourist to the more general visitor. As well as supporting geoconservation outcomes, it provides economic, cultural, relational and social benefits for both visitors and host communities. The interconnections between geoheritage and the cultural components of the landscape have antecedents in concepts of landscape aesthetics in different cultures. These interconnections provide a range of opportunities for enhancing the geotourist experience and promoting geoconservation and geoeducation by means of activities that involve aesthetic and emotional experiences and interpretation through different cultural filters that encourage the rediscovery of a sense of wonder both about the geological stories in the landscape and the human interactions. A cultural ecosystem services framework provides a holistic approach for informing conservation policy, management and planning for geotourism, enabling assessment of multiple benefits and trade-offs for visitors and communities based on the values of the geoheritage assets. Geotourism studies could also benefit from integration of existing theory, conceptual analysis and practice from broader heritage and nature-based tourism and closer collaboration with relevant social sciences. Adhering to sound geoethical practice is an essential part of geotourism, which can also play a role in the promotion of geoethics among the public and professionals.3 of 25 cultural elements of the landscape (e.g., as features celebrated in art, sculpture, music, poetry and literature or that are revered as sacred places), or may provide the essential context in which cultural features (e.g., settlements, castles and archaeological sites) are located. Geology and geomorphology are also a fundamental part of the distinctive character of many rural landscapes and the built environment and contribute to the aesthetic qualities of these landscapes. As described below, there are many connections between geoheritage and cultural heritage that provide a basis for geotourism activities. The value of these connections is now acknowledged within the UNESCO Global Geoparks framework [9]. Likewise, many cultural World Heritage Sites benefit from strong supporting geoheritage interests [38], while many existing natural properties are also cultural landscapes that have potential for re-inscription as mixed properties, recognizing their cultural and spiritual associations as well as their outstanding geoheritage features, as happened in the case of Tongariro National Park (New Zealand) (1992) and Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (Australia) (1994) [39].The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO defined cultural landscapes as representing the "combined works of nature and of man" and "illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal" [40] (p...

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Section: Enhancing the Visitor Experiencementioning

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Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

2018

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“…Consistent with the procedures utilized in other recent systematic reviews (e.g., Ardoin, Wheaton, Bowers, Hunt, & Durham, 2015), this review began with searches of three scholarly databases: Web of Science, PsycInfo, and ScienceDirect. We performed queries with the terms "empowerment" and "tourism" in the title, topic, and research abstract of published articles.…”

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Empowerment in Tourism: A Review of Peer-reviewed Literature

Aghazamani

Hunt²

2017

Tourism Review International

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This article presents a review of the peer-reviewed scholarship that explores the relationship between tourism and empowerment. The concept of empowerment has attracted much interest from social scientists, and we begin by briefly synthesizing those perspectives. Our query of scholarly databases reveals 53 peer-reviewed articles that focus either conceptually or empirically on the topic of tourism-related empowerment. A thematic analysis of these writings revealed five main areas of focus: (1) issues related to local residents, (2) issues related to gender, (3) issues related to employees of tourism and hospitality firms, (4) issues related to disempowerment, and (5) issues related to tourists. We emphasize three main summary points about this literature. First, empowerment is typically assessed via single-shot case studies that focus on outcome rather process. Second, subjects of research on empowerment are not limited to local resident "hosts." Third, although scholars have addressed a related notion of disempowerment, it is not clear whether this exists at the opposite end of a single empowerment continuum or if instead these are two distinct concepts, each occurring along a unique dimension. Finally, we build upon other social sciences and our synthesis of the tourism literature to offer a reconciliatory definition of empowerment as "a multidimensional, context-dependent, and dynamic process that provides humans, individually or collectively, with greater agency, freedom, and capacity to improve their quality of life as a function of engagement with the phenomenon of tourism." We conclude by suggesting several opportunities for further empirical research on tourism-related empowerment.

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“…The uniqueness is the main point as the central point of selling the value of the indigenous people of Kampung Dukuh, which is why it is very important to develop a tourism sector based on the community along with local wisdom that is owned or often called educational tourism [35]. Community-based tourism and local wisdom are forms of tourism that emphasize ownership and active role of the community, provide education to local communities and visitors, promote protection to local communities [36]. As a concept of tourism development, community-based tourism is not a rigid concept [37].…”

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Local Wisdom as Educational Tourism: A Study from Kampong Dukuh West Java Indonesia

Komariah¹,

Asyahidda²

2019

Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)

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Community life with local wisdom is always interesting to discuss, especially local wisdom is really different from the lives of people in general. Indeed, the values of local wisdom contained in a particular area are sacred and must be maintained. However, often the values of local wisdom are only stored and carried out by people who live in the area, whereas in fact the values of local wisdom are very useful for people's lives. Therefore, by utilizing modernity, uniqueness, and the values of local wisdom, certain areas can be used as educational tours that not only benefit leisure but also provide life learning that comes from the values of local wisdom. Information exploration activities about the values of local wisdom are carried out in Kampung Dukuh, Garut, West Java, Indonesia with a qualitative approach and a case study method of local wisdom values that can be used as an educational tourism vehicle for local wisdom can be found. This finding is seen to be beneficial for the development of tourism which places the values of local wisdom as a form of new educational tourism that is beneficial to the lives of individuals and society in general. Keywords-local wisdom; tourism education; tourism development3rd International Seminar on Tourism (ISOT 2018)

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Nature-based tourism's impact on environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior: a review and analysis of the literature and potential future research

Cited by 187 publications

References 64 publications

Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Geoheritage, Geotourism and the Cultural Landscape: Enhancing the Visitor Experience and Promoting Geoconservation

Empowerment in Tourism: A Review of Peer-reviewed Literature

Local Wisdom as Educational Tourism: A Study from Kampong Dukuh West Java Indonesia

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