Visitor experiences across recreation settings: A management or measurement issue?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3-4 ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Fix ◽  
Joshua Carroll ◽  
Andrew M. Harrington
2009 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay E. Maddock ◽  
David L. OʼRiordan ◽  
Taryn Lee ◽  
Joni A. Mayer ◽  
Thomas L. McKenzie

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent Beggs ◽  
Olivia Butts ◽  
Amy Hurd ◽  
Daniel Elkins

Core competencies are defined as skills, knowledge, and abilities that an employee needs to be successful in a job. There has been research examining competencies in a variety of professional recreation settings, including campus recreation. Research in campus recreation has confirmed the understanding of the NIRSA Core Competencies: program delivery; philosophy and theory; personal and professional qualities; legal liabilities and risk management; human resources management; facility planning, management, and design; business management; and research and evaluation. The purpose of this study was to examine competencies of entry-level employees in campus recreation departments. More specifically, this study investigated differences in perceptions of entry-level competencies between entry-level employees, mid-level, and upper-level employees in campus recreation departments. There were 466 campus recreation professionals that participated in the survey research and analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests indicated that entry-level employees assign greater importance to specific competencies than employees higher up in the organization.


2022 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Derrick Taff ◽  
Jennifer Thomsen ◽  
William L. Rice ◽  
Zachary Miller ◽  
Jennifer Newton ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 131-322
Author(s):  
Lola Teruel ◽  
Maryland Morant ◽  
Maria Jose Vinals

Tour guides and heritage interpreters are central to the development of experiential tourism. This form of tourism aims at delivering memorable and personalised visitor experiences by developing activities that induce physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual connections with a specific destination, its resources and its population. In this sense, thematic approaches to heritage interpretation allow heritage resource managers to clearly convey messages by promoting awareness and respect for heritage resources. Dimensions of competency related to heritage interpretation are explored in both formal and informal Spanish education systems. Significant learning methods are designed to achieve these dimensions of competency by allowing the student tour guide to serve the subject of an activity by dramatising interpretive content.This paper describes the experience of the degree programme in Tourism Management at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Universitat Politnica de Valencia), which applies curricula that involve designing, producing and implementing dramatised tours. A critical assessment of this program is carried out to evaluate the experiences and academic progress of students and other individuals involved in the programs development.


2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Weiler ◽  
Brent D. Moyle ◽  
Isabelle D. Wolf ◽  
Kelly de Bie ◽  
Monica Torland

One way national parks can sustain their societal relevance and ensure ongoing political and community support is through conscious and deliberate repositioning. This study investigates the potential for psychologically repositioning national parks using persuasive communication designed to shift public perceptions of the benefits of visitor experiences in parks. The experimental communication interventions were selected to target benefits where gaps were identified between the perceptions of park managers and the parks’ constituent publics. Using a pre–post design on 1,055 respondents split evenly across two Australian states, the experiment revealed that the website and the video used as interventions were highly effective at improving public perceptions of park benefits. This was attributed to the persuasiveness of the website and the video, which respondents rated as having positive valence, as highly vivid and as credible. This research provides theoretically informed insights into the application of persuasive communication theory to psychologically reposition national parks.


2021 ◽  

Abstract This book on visitor experiences in nature-based tourism destinations demonstrates current knowledge using empirical evidence covering six continents. It provides insights into conceptual issues as well as case studies. Content is presented in three main parts: 'Nature-based Experiences in Tourism', 'Managing the Nature-based Tourism Experience' and 'Visitor Experiences and Destination Management'. The book has 16 chapters and a subject index.


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