Travel motivation and tourist satisfaction with wildlife tourism experiences in Gonarezhou and Matusadona National Parks, Zimbabwe

Mutanga, Chiedza Ngonidzashe; Vengesayi, Sebastian; Chikuta, Oliver; Muboko, Never; Gandiwa, Edson

doi:10.1016/j.jort.2017.08.001

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“…The trip experience defines as customers experience the tourism products such as inbound and outbound transportation, accommodation, experience the guiding from their tour guide, and experience the tourism activities (Christian et al, 2011;Liang, 2008). Mutanga et al (2017) proved that tourists' satisfaction with trip experiences had a significant influence on their overall satisfaction with the entire holiday/trip experience. Lastly, it is proved that trip experience mediates by tourist satisfaction influence tourist loyalty (Naidoo et al, 2016).…”

Section: Trip Experiencementioning

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Examining the Trip Experience on Competitive Advantage Creation in Tourism

Rahmiati¹,

Othman²,

Tahir³

2020

IJEBA

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Purpose:This study aims to examine the trip experience on competitive advantage creation in Indonesia tourism. Trip experience includes transportation, accommodation, tour guide, and tourism activities. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research population consists of all international tourists who visited Indonesia through Soekarno Hatta International Airport (Jakarta) and Ngurah Rai International Airport (Bali). The questionnaire was constructed in English and translated into Arabic and Mandarin. Convenience sampling techniques were used to collect data. Out of 500 questionnaires distributed, only 415 were valid and used for analysis. Partial Least Square by SMART-PLS 3.0 software was used for data analysis. Findings: Result shows that transportation, accommodation and tourist activities are positively significant factors on tourist loyalty and mediated by tourist satisfaction. Whereas, tour guides have positively but not significant influence on tourist loyalty and mediated by tourist satisfaction. Practical implications:The study provides a practical implication which requires a close relationship of state governments and tourism companies in order to have good cooperative and coordination to competitive advantage creation. Originality/Value: As this study is based on recent studies on tourism destination in competitive advantage creation it brings a new insight of analyzing the two cities of highest tourists visits in order to understand the condition of overall Indonesian tourism.

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Section: Trip Experiencementioning

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Examining the Trip Experience on Competitive Advantage Creation in Tourism

Rahmiati¹,

Othman²,

Tahir³

2020

IJEBA

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“…restrictions), and social components (crowding, new activities) influence visits or participation in recreation. Tourist motivation for visiting two national parks in Zimbabwe, their wildlife tourism experiences and overall satisfaction with the entire holiday and trip experience was the subject of study which was conducted by Mutanga, et al (2017). Their study identified four push factors for visiting national parks, such as recreation and knowledge seeking, appreciating wildlife and feeling close to nature and six pull factors such as abundance of wildlife, availability of different animal species, availability of different plant species, wilderness, beautiful landscape and peaceful/quiet experiences.…”

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Impact of London residents’ sociodemographic characteristics on the motives for visiting national parks

Tepavčević¹,

Miljanić²,

Bradić³

et al. 2019

J GEOGR INST CVIJIC

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The establishment of national parks is motivated by the preservation of natural values and resources or, more precisely, landscape and biodiversity, as well as satisfying scientific, educational, health and recreational, tourism, cultural and other needs. They have two often conflicting purposes: to protect important natural and cultural resources and to offer the possibility to use these areas as well as to enjoy them. People love to travel to protected natural areas just because on a relatively small but representative territory they can see a large number of plant and animal species, as well as participate in recreational activities in a pristine environment. The purpose of this study was to identify the motives and constraints for visiting national parks in relation to age, education level and employment status. The research was conducted among the London residents who are potential visitors of national parks in England. A total of 107 respondents were questioned through an online survey. The results obtained in this study showed that there are differences in motives and constraints in relation to sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. The results of this study could direct the management of national parks to focus more on identifying and meeting the needs of potential visitors because of the increasing popularity of ecotourism.

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“…The overexploitation of resources from the forest has led to the establishment of various forest and wildlife management and control programs in most forest regions ( Adom et al., 2019 ). One of these programs is encouraging wildlife tourism in the protected areas ( World Bank, 2018 ), which has the potential to generate financial resources for local communities and conserve species and habitats ( Balmford et al., 2009 ; Mutanga et al., 2017 ).…”

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Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

Adom

Boamah

2020

Global Ecology and Conservation

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This study investigated the attitudes of the people living in three adjacent communities close to the Bomfobiri wildlife sanctuary in Ghana concerning the observation of the cultural, seasonal closures of hunting. The cognitive and motivational approaches to attitude theory in wildlife management guided, under the phenomenology method, the collection of qualitative data on the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting and its implementation challenges. This inquiry was deemed crucial to improving the disjointed relationship between park management and local communities that often make wildlife conservation and tourism difficult at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary. Forty-five key wildlife stakeholders, including park officers, traditional authorities, elderly residents, and bushmeat traders, were purposively selected with some interviewed personally and others engaged in focus group discussions. Despite a more significant number of stakeholders admitting the importance of the seasonal closure of hunting, some challenges impeded its implementation. These included the absence of alternative arrangements to support hunters during the period for the annual closure of hunting; lack of proper sensitisation and education on the hunting ban; absence of transparency in the equitable sharing of proceeds from wildlife tourism at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary among park officers (Government) and the traditional authorities; the booming bushmeat business and the fear of losing customers after the fallow period; and purported corruption on the part of park officers, threatening the observation of the seasonal closure of hunting. The study has offered proactive suggestions to the Wildlife Division of the Forestry Commission and mainly to park management at the Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary on how to address these challenges and improve wildlife management and sustainable wildlife tourism potentials in Ghana. Paramount among them is the tactful provision of alternative sources of livelihood and the establishment of enterprises in non-timber forest products as sources of income for hunters during the seasonal hunting ban.

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Travel motivation and tourist satisfaction with wildlife tourism experiences in Gonarezhou and Matusadona National Parks, Zimbabwe

Cited by 89 publications

References 67 publications

Examining the Trip Experience on Competitive Advantage Creation in Tourism

Examining the Trip Experience on Competitive Advantage Creation in Tourism

Impact of London residents’ sociodemographic characteristics on the motives for visiting national parks

Local attitudes toward the cultural seasonal hunting bans in Ghana’s Bomfobiri Wildlife Sanctuary: Implications for sustainable wildlife management and tourism

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