The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy

Funsten, Cassandra; Franco, Caterina Di; Borsellino, Valeria; Surano, Natale; Asciuto, Antonio; Schimmenti, Emanuele

doi:10.1016/j.jort.2022.100565

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“…Recognized as a multidisciplinary concept, "social value" enables the achievement of SDGs and demonstrates an organization's value beyond the accounting statements of purposeful profit by demonstrating how it generates a true positive impact on society [12,13,19,37,88,89]. Tourism organizations have recognized incorporating social value as part of their ethos [66] as well as the increasing prevalence of the importance of social value in their strategies.…”

Section: Social Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite such facts and figures, research on garden tourism is limited [2,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11], let alone that related to "botanic" garden tourism; therefore, more is needed to understand and innovate with impact in mind on behalf of the sector. Conserving a botanic garden's cultural and natural heritage and satisfying visitor economies requires interdiciplinary knowledge, talent, and skills, especially due to the challenges of sometimes contrasting and in some cases traditionally conflicting objectives [12,13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They also provide leisure, tourism, recreation, healthcare, and other spaces: a diverse cultural ecosystem of services [2,37,[41][42][43][44]. However, realizing the full transformative potential of botanic garden tourism requires overcoming persistent challenges related to access and inclusion, knowledge sharing, capacity, environmental sustainability and stewardship, impact assessment, and service-related opportunities in the areas and regions surrounding and connected to botanic gardens [12,13,[45][46][47].…”

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Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

Catahan,

Hopwood,

Suraweera

2024

JZBG

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Many botanic gardens are flourishing, and many others can learn from those leading the way; at the same time, all can form new allegiances informed by service research. We developed this paper to plant seeds for different stakeholders interested in putting a spotlight on botanic garden tourism opportunities. It is in response to a call to action by many stakeholders across the botanic garden sector for greater public engagement, to challenge plant awareness disparity, and to ensure the vitality and viability of the sector. Our commentary considers positive, transformative service making, marketing, management, and development. We recommend holistic, integrated services via ecosystemic thinking and collaborative partnerships across the sector and with non-traditional partnerships in the design of sustainable service ecosystems. It is envisaged that service research will spur on a more responsible, ethical, moral enterprise and sustainable botanic garden tourism with opportunities to drive positive, transformative change in meeting sustainable development goals for the good of plants, people, and planet.

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Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

Catahan,

Hopwood,

Suraweera

2024

JZBG

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“…Studies examining the opinions of visitors in different parts of the world show that visitors focus less on the educational role of botanical gardens. For example, in Malaysia (Razak et al, 2016), Italy (Funsten, et al, 2022), and South Africa (Ward et al, 2010), the results of the studies showed that recreational purposes are more important for botanical garden visitors. TripAdvisor website for "Ankara Botanical Park", "Atatürk Botanical Park", "Gaziantep Botanical Park", "Karaca Arboretum", and "Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanical Garden" in Turkey between May 2014 and November 2020.…”

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Botanik Bahçelerinin Eğitsel Kapasitesi: Araştırma sonuçları ne söylüyor?

Bayındır

2023

Necatibey Eğitim Fakültesi Elektronik Fen Ve Matematik Eğitimi Dergisi

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Considering that they have been visited by more than 750 million people each year (BGCI, 2023), botanical gardens can play an important role in solving the global problems we face such as climate change, food security, and loss of biodiversity. In order to achieve this, it is recommended to strengthen the educational role of botanical gardens, to review the research results made so far in this field, and to support new research. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to review the scientific research on the education and public awareness role of botanical gardens. Within the scope of this research, scientific studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals on educational aspects of botanical gardens were reviewed. Thirty-two studies were reached as a result of the literature review carried out in accordance with the determined criteria. With the content analysis, the educational role of botanical gardens was systematically analyzed and interpreted according to research findings.

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“…C. Funsten et al examined respondents' satisfaction with a questionnaire at the Zagara Plant Festival in the Botanical Garden of the University of Palermo in Sicily (Italy) and found that the festival met the relevant needs of visitors to outdoor social events. Therefore, one of the management decisions, according to the researchers, can be the creation of special events in protected areas to improve the well-being of people [34]. Raising awareness of the value of natural resources [32] will encourage policy-makers to adopt a sustainable development approach rather than a popular short-term economic benefit.…”

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The value of protected man-made parks of the Ukrainian Polissya of the second half of the 18th and early 20th centuries

Dzyba¹,

Kolesnichenko²

2022

Ukr. j. for. wood sci.

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For thousands of years, human activity has shaped the environment, changing it in accordance with utilitarian and functional requirements. As these requirements changed over time, so did the value that people associated with certain landscape features. Man-made parks created in the Ukrainian Polissya in the second half of the 17th – early 20th century are landscapes, the historical park environment, and modern adaptation of which to the modern functional purpose are valued by modern society and can be considered as ecosystem services of the park. The purpose of the study was to develop and test a methodology for assessing the values of man-made protected parks in the Ukrainian Polissya. The following research methods were used: field surveys (route), analytical, comparative and historic and systematic. To assess the level of ecosystem services provided by 32 parks located on the territory of the Ukrainian Polissya, a methodology was developed and tested that included 19 assessment categories, each of which contained several attributes (1-20). Assessment categories included utilitarian, environmental, educational, etc. Attributes were presented, but were not limited to the presence of a source and/or the presence of medicinal plants (within the utilitarian category), the presence of plantings that perform the functions of river protection and/or soil stabilisation (within the ecological category), and the presence of an educational path (in the educational category). Each attribute was assigned a score of 1 with a sum of values (up to a potential sum of 97), reflecting the level of ecosystem services provided by each individual park. By estimating the sum of values, parks were classified as high-value (sum of values from 70 to 97), medium-value (sum of values from 40 to 69), and low-value (sum of values below 40). Among the 32 parks surveyed, 31 (96.9%) parks were classified as medium-value (most with a sum of values in the range from 50 to 60), and one (3.1%) park was classified as low-value, while no park was classified as high-value. By identifying which of the 19 assessment categories (and attributes) are missing, it is possible to plan and implement improvements to increase the ecosystem services provided by individual parks. This methodology can be used to evaluate ecosystem services provided by man-made parks in Ukraine and around the world. Such an assessment would help preserving existing parks, saving them from destruction and development, thus preventing their transition to other types of land use. It would also increase the value of these unique multi-purpose landscape features in the future by transforming and expanding their cultural and social ecosystem services

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The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

Botanic Garden Tourism, Social Value, Health, and Well-Being

Botanik Bahçelerinin Eğitsel Kapasitesi: Araştırma sonuçları ne söylüyor?

The value of protected man-made parks of the Ukrainian Polissya of the second half of the 18th and early 20th centuries

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