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Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios
- Source :
- Forests, Volume 12, Issue 2, Forests, Vol 12, Iss 171, p 171 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Climate change leads to a variety of extreme weather conditions such as heat waves, unusual cold weather, and heavy rain, which always ends up with serious disasters. It could have a tremendous impact on a lot of industries in the world. The tourist industry, that plays a vital role in the global economy, has faced serious impacts from climate change in many tourist attractions, e.g., national parks, mountain areas, and beaches. The travel behavior of visitors has been changed under various climate change conditions. To understand the influence degrees of tourists on climate change factors, this study aimed to analyze whether there is difference in the influence of climate change on socio-demographic background, travel activities, travel intention, and the revisit intention attitude of tourists with different degrees of place attachment to Wuling National Forest Recreation Area. This study further investigated whether the climate change adaptation strategies offered by the park manager would have a positive influence on travel intention of tourists. The results of this study showed that except for heat waves, events related to climate change such as stronger typhoon, heavy rain, unusual cold weather condition, mud sliding, forest fire, and the appearance of mosquitos would have a negative influence on travel intention, especially for the tourists with a low degree of place attachment. In addition, if the park manager offers strategies to adapt to climate change conditions, these strategies would have a positive influence on travel intention.
- Subjects :
- Tourist industry
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
business.industry
travel intentions
05 social sciences
Environmental resource management
Climate change
Forestry
lcsh:QK900-989
Place attachment
01 natural sciences
Travel behavior
Extreme weather
climate change
Geography
place attachment
Typhoon
0502 economics and business
lcsh:Plant ecology
business
recreational activities
Recreation
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19994907
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Forests
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b92e572a3f18b0691660d089bfa37cf2