{"title":"Conservation, education, and adventure tourism: a case study of adventure parks as potential venues for communication in Monteverde, Costa Rica","authors":"A. Amici, N. Nadkarni, N. Q. Lackey, K. Bricker","doi":"10.1080/14724049.2021.1933503","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adventure tourism and nature-based tourism are increasing at the same time that negative effects from land development, forest fragmentation, and climate change continue to worsen. In Costa Rica, over half of the international visitors cite nature and adventure as the main reason for their visit. However, adventure-oriented facilities are underused for disseminating information about environmental conservation. With visitor surveys and manager interviews, we assessed demographics, visitor knowledge, interest and behaviors towards conservation and education of tropical forests in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Results suggested that visitors surveyed both before and after their visit to Selvatura Adventure Park agreed that they were interested in tropical forest conservation, and owners and managers of adventure parks in the region sought to improve their conservation and visitor education efforts. Adventure parks appear to be potential facilities that could supplement conservation education in the Monteverde region and may be increasingly important with continued land development pressures.","PeriodicalId":39714,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecotourism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14724049.2021.1933503","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Ecotourism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14724049.2021.1933503","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Adventure tourism and nature-based tourism are increasing at the same time that negative effects from land development, forest fragmentation, and climate change continue to worsen. In Costa Rica, over half of the international visitors cite nature and adventure as the main reason for their visit. However, adventure-oriented facilities are underused for disseminating information about environmental conservation. With visitor surveys and manager interviews, we assessed demographics, visitor knowledge, interest and behaviors towards conservation and education of tropical forests in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Results suggested that visitors surveyed both before and after their visit to Selvatura Adventure Park agreed that they were interested in tropical forest conservation, and owners and managers of adventure parks in the region sought to improve their conservation and visitor education efforts. Adventure parks appear to be potential facilities that could supplement conservation education in the Monteverde region and may be increasingly important with continued land development pressures.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Ecotourism seeks to advance the field by examining the social, economic, and ecological aspects of ecotourism at a number of scales, and including regions from around the world. Journal of Ecotourism welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research, particularly where it contributes to the dissemination of new ideas and models of ecotourism planning, development, management, and good practice. While the focus of the journal rests on a type of tourism based principally on natural history - along with other associated features of the man-land nexus - it will consider papers which investigate ecotourism as part of a broader nature based tourism, as well as those works which compare or contrast ecotourism/ists with other forms of tourism/ists.