Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios
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 ec...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a1e3bb4d0aea4180b4d1671e3be924112023-12-03T12:00:35ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-02-0112217110.3390/f12020171Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate ScenariosWan-Yu Liu0Hung-Wen Yu1Chi-Ming Hsieh2Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung City 40227, TaiwanInnovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture, Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, 145 Xingda Rd., South Dist., Taichung City 40227, TaiwanInternational Bachelor Program of Agribusiness, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 40227, TaiwanClimate 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.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/2/171climate changerecreational activitiesplace attachmenttravel intentions |
| spellingShingle | Wan-Yu Liu Hung-Wen Yu Chi-Ming Hsieh Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios Forests climate change recreational activities place attachment travel intentions |
| title | Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios |
| title_full | Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios |
| title_short | Evaluating Forest Visitors’ Place Attachment, Recreational Activities, and Travel Intentions under Different Climate Scenarios |
| title_sort | evaluating forest visitors place attachment recreational activities and travel intentions under different climate scenarios |
| topic | climate change recreational activities place attachment travel intentions |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/2/171 |
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