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Assessing the effectiveness of signs to change littering behavior in a Norwegian national park 评估挪威国家公园中改变乱扔垃圾行为的标志的有效性
IF 4.4 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100930
Sofie Kjendlie Selvaag , Marianne Evju
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Role of therapeutic landscapes and emotional experiences in the relationship between water-based recreational experiences, well-being, and environmental behaviors 治疗景观和情感体验在水上娱乐体验、幸福感和环境行为之间的关系中的作用
IF 4.4 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100922
Figen Sevinc Basol , Murat Yorulmaz , Medet Yolal
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To develop or to be abandoned again? Tourism spatial quality assessment of brownfield landscape regeneration: A case study of Xi'an Banpo International Art Park, China 发展还是再次被抛弃?棕地景观再生的旅游空间质量评价——以西安半坡国际艺术公园为例
IF 4.4 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100933
Xia Wei , Sreetheran Maruthaveeran , Mohd Fairuz Shahidan , Tao Sha
{"title":"To develop or to be abandoned again? Tourism spatial quality assessment of brownfield landscape regeneration: A case study of Xi'an Banpo International Art Park, China","authors":"Xia Wei ,&nbsp;Sreetheran Maruthaveeran ,&nbsp;Mohd Fairuz Shahidan ,&nbsp;Tao Sha","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100933","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100933","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Brownfield spatial landscape regeneration is an important direction to cope with urban land use conflicts, and it is an important outdoor tourism carrier that displays the historical characteristics of the city. However, the existing brownfield regeneration space generally suffers from the double dilemma of quality fault and feature dissolution, which leads to the risk of spatial vitality decay and secondary abandonment. This research innovatively constructs a comprehensive evaluation system for the regeneration quality of brownfield landscapes. By integrating fuzzy mathematics and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), it breaks through the limitations of traditional single-dimension assessment and, for the first time, incorporates several interdisciplinary indicators, such as spatial resilience, cultural legibility, and industry coupling, into the assessment framework. Taking Xi'an Banpo International Art Park as the empirical object, the research finds that its comprehensive index of regeneration quality is 79.19 (Acceptable), especially in the dimensions of business form (0.84), online and offline information dissemination (0.99, 0.91), and regional cultural self-confidence (1.45), revealing a significant shortcoming. This study calls for the construction of a \"culture-technology-governance\" triadic theoretical framework and proposes a \"spatial gene restoration-industrial entropy regulation-digital brand symbiosis\" optimization strategy, which forms a \"visitor-community-manager\" triadic synergy mechanism and makes up for the inadequacy of the existing brownfield regeneration theory in dynamic adaptation research. This assessment system not only provides a relocatable decision-making tool for urban regeneration but also reveals the non-linear evolution law of industrial heritage tourism space regeneration, which is of theoretical construction value for the establishment of brownfield regeneration assessment standards with Chinese characteristics and provides new ideas for the transformation of industrial heritage in global countries.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Management implications&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;1.Through the adaptive and innovative FAHP, we constructed a comprehensive evaluation system for the spatial quality of brownfield tourism, quantitatively analyzed multiple driving factors such as physical environment, cultural readability, and industry coupling, and provided new ideas and decision-making tools for urban planning managers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div&gt;2.Xi'an Banpo International Art Park's advantages include physical, functional, and cultural factors, while its disadvantageous factors focus on emotional and informational factors; managers need to adopt the strategy of \"making good use of strengths and compensating for weaknesses\": strengthening the extraction of cultural IP symbols and implanting intelligent navigation systems to activate the vitality of the space.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;s","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100933"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Consumption for conservation: determinants of purchasing local products by ecotourists to conserving protected forests 保护消费:生态旅游者为保护森林而购买当地产品的决定因素
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100935
Rahim Maleknia , Aureliu-Florin Hălălişan , Bogdan Popa , Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh
{"title":"Consumption for conservation: determinants of purchasing local products by ecotourists to conserving protected forests","authors":"Rahim Maleknia ,&nbsp;Aureliu-Florin Hălălişan ,&nbsp;Bogdan Popa ,&nbsp;Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecotourism holds significant potential to reduce local communities' dependence on forest resources for their livelihoods while directly contributing to forest conservation by purchase of locally produced goods, particularly in protected forest areas. Understanding the factors that shape tourists' intentions to buy these products, as well as their actual purchasing behaviors, is crucial for promoting sustainable consumption patterns. This study addresses a critical research gap by extending the theory of planned behavior to incorporate two additional variables: the perceived impact of purchasing on conservation and environmental knowledge. Data were collected from 445 ecotourists through a structured questionnaire and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The inclusion of these additional variables enhanced the model's explanatory power for intention, increasing from 0.48 to 0.65, and improved its predictive accuracy for behavior from 0.43 to 0.50. Hypothesis testing confirmed that tourists' attitudes, perceived social norms, perceived behavioral control, environmental knowledge, and the perceived conservation impact of purchasing all had significant positive effects on their behavioral intentions, which, in turn, positively influenced purchasing behavior. However, the findings also revealed a gap between intention and actual behavior, as not all expressed intentions to buy local products translated into action. These insights offer valuable implications for both management and policy. Strengthening tourists' environmental knowledge, fostering positive attitudes, ensuring the availability of local products, and enhancing confidence in their conservation impact can effectively encourage both purchasing intentions and actual behaviors, ultimately supporting sustainable ecotourism practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100935"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144714291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Human–nature relations in the Anthropocene: Responsible hiking and ecological balance in Thiềng Liềng 人类世的人与自然关系:负责任的徒步旅行和生态平衡Thiềng Liềng
IF 4.4 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100926
Minh Duong Duc , Linh Ta Duy , Thao Nguyen Thi Thanh , Thanh Le Minh
{"title":"Human–nature relations in the Anthropocene: Responsible hiking and ecological balance in Thiềng Liềng","authors":"Minh Duong Duc ,&nbsp;Linh Ta Duy ,&nbsp;Thao Nguyen Thi Thanh ,&nbsp;Thanh Le Minh","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>This study investigates how responsible hiking tourism practices in Thiềng Liềng foster balanced human–nature relationships and ecological sustainability, addressing Anthropocene challenges such as climate change and ecological degradation. It explores how locally-led adaptive governance can effectively mediate tourist impacts and contribute to community and ecological resilience.</div></div><div><h3>Study design/methodology/approach</h3><div>A qualitative case study design was adopted, utilising semi-structured interviews conducted between 2022 and 2025. The analysis was guided by three complementary frameworks—Social-Ecological Systems (SES) theory, Critical Place Inquiry (CPI), and the Experiencing Place lens—which together enabled a nuanced examination of the relational dynamics among tourists, community members, local governance actors, and the surrounding environment.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>The study identifies robust responsible tourism practices—educational guided hikes, ecologically strategic trail infrastructure, and community-driven visitor guidelines—that significantly reduced ecological disruptions and enhanced visitor environmental awareness. This study finds that responsible hiking in Thiềng Liềng has become a vital component of community-based tourism, fostering ecological preservation and transformative experiences through practices like forest bathing and storytelling that promote deep ecological awareness and non-dualistic human–nature relationships. Emphasizing the integration of deep ecology and bottom-up, indigenous knowledge, the study advocates for nature-based tourism approaches rooted in ethical engagement, cultural authenticity, and experiential place-making.</div></div><div><h3>Originality/value</h3><div>This research contributes to sustainable tourism by empirically demonstrating how responsible hiking, community-based governance, and ecological resilience can be effectively integrated within the Anthropocene context. Theoretical contributions are made through the application of Social-Ecological Systems (SES) theory, Critical Place Inquiry (CPI), and the Experiencing Place lens, all of which underscore the value of locally adaptive, culturally grounded tourism strategies that balance ecological and community well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100926"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144721223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Investigating the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity in urban green spaces during the summer 研究夏季城市绿地中生态质量和娱乐活动的共存
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100932
Jingwei Zhao, Panpan Wang, Xintao Li
{"title":"Investigating the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity in urban green spaces during the summer","authors":"Jingwei Zhao,&nbsp;Panpan Wang,&nbsp;Xintao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100932","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100932","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban green spaces fulfill a variety of essential functions, with ecological quality and recreational activity being two crucial aspects. However, the literature on these two aspects has largely remained separate, with most studies exploring the determining factors of just one aspect. As a result, achieving the dual purposes of encouraging recreation participation and conserving the environment has proven to be a challenge. Ecological quality was measured by integrating the reference condition approach with the index method in 14 urban green spaces. Recreation participation was determined by counting the number of visitors engaging in recreational activities, and recreational activity diversity was calculated using the Shannon–Wiener index. Subsequently, this study calculated the coexistence of ecological quality and recreation participation, as well as the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity diversity. No significant relationship was observed between ecological quality and recreation participation or recreational activity diversity. More buildings and less paved areas were identified as factors that promoted the coexistence of ecological quality and recreation participation, as well as the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity diversity. Additionally, the coverage of woody plants positively predicted the coexistence of ecological quality and recreation participation. Visual naturalness was identified as a positive predictor, while the coverage of lawns acted as a negative predictor of the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity diversity. These findings provide valuable insight into the multifunctional design and management of urban green spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100932"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144670920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community 语言有影响吗?探索一个特定国家的在线社区的徒步旅行体验
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100927
Peng Yang, Juho Pesonen
{"title":"Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community","authors":"Peng Yang,&nbsp;Juho Pesonen","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores hiking experiences of Finns within a nation-specific online community. Understanding hiking experiences is crucial for outdoor recreation and tourism management. Academic research on the topic has so far predominantly focused on English-language content and often overlooked the contextual factor of online communities. This study aims to increase our understanding of the hiking experience by comparing two groups of Finnish reviewers: those who wrote their reviews in Finnish and those who wrote in English.</div><div>The online hiking community of our research comprises 272 individual reviewers on Tripadvisor. Among them, 155 posted reviews only in Finnish, 110 posted only in English, and 6 contributed to both languages. At the end, a total of 329 hiking-related reviews were collected, including 144 in English and 185 in Finnish. The two language groups are compared regarding contribution level, types of hikers, image sharing, travel month, satisfaction ratings, and hiking region. In addition, qualitative content analysis examined the reviews in terms of focus, tone, and audience.</div><div>Findings show shared trends such as peak hiking in July, high satisfaction levels, and frequent use of photos. However, differences emerged in engagement patterns, types of hikers, and preferred regions. English reviews often used expressive and tourist-oriented language and address broader audiences. Finnish reviews focused on practical trail details and used a nostalgic tone. Their reviews appeared more oriented toward experienced local hikers.</div><div>The study contributes to understanding hiking experiences by showing that the language of reviews matters significantly. It supports the development of multilingual communication strategies and complements socio-economic analyses. For park management, the results suggest practical strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100927"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144655739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does intensity of nature-based recreation drive environmental stewardship? 以自然为基础的娱乐活动的强度是否推动了环境管理?
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100925
Kolsoum Heidari, François Gravelle
{"title":"Does intensity of nature-based recreation drive environmental stewardship?","authors":"Kolsoum Heidari,&nbsp;François Gravelle","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While nature-based recreation is widely recognized for its well-being benefits, its role in fostering long-term environmental stewardship remains underexplored. This study bridges this gap by applying the Serious Leisure Perspective a framework that describes sustained, skill-intensive, and identity-building leisure participation, to examine how sustained engagement in outdoor activities cultivates ecological responsibility among recreationists in Gatineau Park, Canada. Using SmartPLS structural modeling, we analyzed survey data from 248 outdoor recreationists, assessing relationships between serious leisure (measured via the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure) and environmental concern (using the New Ecological Paradigm Scale).</div><div>Serious leisure significantly predicted environmental concern (R<sup>2</sup> = 0.563), with younger, educated participants showing heightened awareness. Subdimensions of environmental concern—anti-anthropocentrism (β = 0.329), balance of nature (β = 0.771), and ecological crisis (β = 0.766)—were strongly influenced by serious leisure engagement. Findings advance outdoor recreation research by demonstrating how serious leisure fosters place attachment and stewardship. We propose actionable strategies for park managers to design programs (e.g., skill-based workshops, citizen science) that leverage leisure engagement for sustainability outcomes. This study also can be used by park managers, environmental educators, and recreation planners looking for evidence-based strategies to encourage sustainable behaviors through leisure engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100925"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144655737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The influence of perceived freedom in leisure on visitors' psychological well-being: Evidence from Xishan National Forest Park, China 休闲自由感知对游客心理健康的影响:来自西山国家森林公园的证据
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100920
Bin Zhou , Minghui Huang , Minchen Huang , Shintaro Kono , Qihao Xiong , Lulu Wang
{"title":"The influence of perceived freedom in leisure on visitors' psychological well-being: Evidence from Xishan National Forest Park, China","authors":"Bin Zhou ,&nbsp;Minghui Huang ,&nbsp;Minchen Huang ,&nbsp;Shintaro Kono ,&nbsp;Qihao Xiong ,&nbsp;Lulu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100920","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100920","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest leisure experience is a recognized source of psychological well-being (PWB). However, as an essential aspect of the leisure experience, the specific influence of perceived freedom in leisure on PWB in forest parks remains understudied. Guided by Basic Psychological Needs Theory (BPNT), we surveyed 404 forest park visitors and used PLS-SEM to analyze the data. The relationship between perceived freedom in leisure and PWB was explored, along with the moderating roles of self-restoration and education in that relationship. Findings indicated that all four dimensions of perceived freedom in leisure (perceived competence, perceived control, perceived needs, and perceived depth of involvement) were positively associated with forest park visitors’ PWB. Self-restoration strengthened the effects of perceived control and depth of involvement, yet education weakened the impact of perceived control. These findings offered new insights into the possible mechanisms through which forest park visit affects people's PWB and further provided some managerial implications for practitioners and policymakers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100920"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144570971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana 加纳北部自然旅游目的地对气候变化的适应
IF 3.6 3区 管理学
Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jort.2025.100918
Frederick Dapilah, Benjamin Aapeple Bedigbee, Samuel Ziem Bonye
{"title":"Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana","authors":"Frederick Dapilah,&nbsp;Benjamin Aapeple Bedigbee,&nbsp;Samuel Ziem Bonye","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100918","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100918","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Increasing climate change and its impacts remain a monumental threat globally to Nature-based Tourism (NBT) destinations now and in the future. However, the complex relationship between climate change and NBT remains underexplored as there is only limited empirical evidence of their vulnerability and adaptiveness, particularly for research on NBTs in Africa. This paper examines the system-wide vulnerability and adaptation strategies of the Mole National Park (MNP) in Northern Ghana. The study combines semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and various participatory methods. The findings show that park managers and the MNP fringe communities perceived a change in the climate accompanied by extreme climate events such as drought and flood over the last two decades. The climate changes experienced in the MNP led to increased poaching and human-wildlife conflicts, declining biodiversity and ecosystem, food and water scarcity and reduced tourist viewing experience. In light of these, various adaptation strategies have been implemented by MNP stakeholders, including the construction of artificial waterholes and green buildings, controlled burning of grasses, regulation and enforcement, alternative livelihood schemes, afforestation and education programmes. Thus, the paper provides invaluable insights and responds to theoretical and empirical knowledge gaps in the burgeoning tourism and climate change research in developing countries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100918"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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