scholarly journals Social Network Analysis on Tourists’ Perceived Image of Tropical Forest Park: Implications for Niche Tourism

SAGE Open ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824402110672
Author(s):  
Xueli Li ◽  
Songtao Geng ◽  
Suyu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Web Crawler ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Tourism Image ◽  
Online Travel Reviews ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
High Degree

Tourists’ perceived image is the core of destination marketing. As an important niche tourist destination, the analysis of tourists’ perceived image of tropical forest parks has great value. This study takes the Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park as a case site and collects a total of 1,44,022 words from online travel reviews on Ctrip.com via the Python web crawler technology. Firstly, through high-frequency word analysis, we identified 77 core elements and a total of five image themes, which are attraction image, emotional image, service facility image, crowd image, and activity image. Secondly, building on Net Draw analysis, a network structure diagram of the tourist’ perceived image of the Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park is constructed. Finally, the overall network and individual network of tourists’ perceived image are analyzed. The results indicate that low overall network density is in possession of core and periphery. Guojianglong Cable Bridge, battery car, and glass path enjoy both high degree centrality and betweenness centrality. They also show significant advantages of structural holes. Therefore, they are on the top of the network. The academic and practical value of tourism image projection and development in tropical forest park is discussed.

scholarly journals Scuba Diving Experience and Sustainability: An Assessment of Online Travel Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 43-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peunjodi Naidoo ◽  
Prabha Ramseook-Munhurrun ◽  
Jing Li
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Scuba Diving ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Unsupervised Analysis ◽  
Online Travel Reviews ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
Online Travel

Scuba diving is a popular activity in small island destinations which is on the rise. However, it is particularly important to preserve the physical environment for small island developing states due to their unique biodiversity and fragile ecosystems. Scuba diving tourism in island destinations is provided mainly by dive operators who are responsible to deliver the scuba diving experience to tourists. However, despite the importance of sustainability for the tourism industry, it is unclear to which extent the marine environment or green issues are important for consumers. Studies are increasingly suggesting that sustainability is an important feature considered by consumers. However, information is sparse regarding the extent to which sustainability is a key component for customers when evaluating the scuba diving experience. In this study, 3109 text reviews from the Trip Advisor website across all 57 listed diving operators in Mauritius were selected for data analysis. Th e present study uses Leximancer, a text analysis software that conducts unsupervised analysis of natural language texts provided in an electronic format.The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.9 2018 p.43-52

scholarly journals Residents’ Spatial Preference for Urban Forest Park Route during Physical Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11756
Author(s):  
Mengmeng Cai ◽  
Chuyun Cui ◽  
Lin Lin ◽  
Shuyi Di ◽  
Zheng Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Spatial Image ◽  
Spatial Preference ◽  
Forest Parks

Urban parks positively affect the life quality and health of urban residents as well as the environment where they live. When it comes to the design of a future urban forest park, it is necessary to consider the protection of ecological environment, landscape sustainability and practicability. This study explored residents’ spatial preference for urban forest parks based on preference survey data. According to the rating scores obtained for four urban forest park routes during physical activities, this study used cognitive maps and multinomial logit models to figure out the potential influencing factors affecting residents’ spatial preference while they engage in physical activities. The results suggest that forest routes are still the primary choice for urban residents. Although familiarity with the spatial image preference for urban forest parks varied from person to person, residents’ choice of route shows certain commonalities, which was reflected in the sequential cognitive maps obtained from them. In addition, residents’ route preference is influenced by their exercise habits, environmental preference and residential location. There is also a certain correlation between residents’ preference and their characteristics. This study provides additional information for planners, developers, engineers, architects and foresters in building a more suitable environment that is aesthetically appealing and ecologically sound for physical exercising.

scholarly journals How Perceived Sensory Dimensions of Forest Park Are Associated with Stress Restoration in Beijing?

2022 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 883
Author(s):  
Congying An ◽  
Jinglan Liu ◽  
Qiaohui Liu ◽  
Yuqi Liu ◽  
Xiaoli Fan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Model ◽  
Linear Mixed Model ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Activity Intensity ◽  
Visit Frequency ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Visit Duration ◽  
Forest Parks

A growing number of studies suggest that the perceived sensory dimensions (PSDs) of green space are associated with stress restoration offered by restorative environment. However, there is little known about PSDs and stress restoration as well as their relationship to forest park. To fill this gap, an on-site questionnaire survey was conducted in three forest parks in Beijing, as a result of which a total number of 432 completed responses were collected and analyzed. The mean values of PSDs were used to represent PSDs of forest park. Using independent sample t-test and ANOVA, this study analyzed the individual characteristics that affected PSDs and stress restoration. Linear mixed model was used to identify the relationship between PSDs and stress restoration of forest park, which took into account the interactions of stress level and PSDs. The results showed that: (1) the perceived degree of PSDs in forest park from strong to weak was Serene, Space, Nature, Rich in species, Prospect, Refuge, Social and Culture, which varied with visitors’ gender, age, level of stress, visit frequency, activity intensity, visit duration and commuting time; (2) in PSDs, Refuge, Serene, Social and Prospect had significantly positive effects on the stress restoration of forest parks (3) there was no significant difference in the effect of the eight PSDs on the stress restoration between different stress groups; (4) stress restoration was influenced by visitors’ gender, age, visit frequency and visit duration. These findings can offer references for managers to improve the health benefits of forest park for visitors, and can enrich the knowledge about PSDs and stress restoration.

scholarly journals THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN FOREST PARK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noralizawati Mohamed ◽  
Noriah Othman ◽  
Mohd Hisham Ariffin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
To Come ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
The Town

The potential of Urban Forest Park and publics' views are clearly pertinent in urban greening and sustainability, yet they are often ignored by certain countries. In line with this, the Town and Country Planning Department and National Landscape Department had taken steps by developing more urban parks and urban forest parks to enhance the quality and sustainability in urban environment. The study was conducted at FRIM(Forest Research Institution of Malaysia) with 375 respondents participated in this study. It is found that the respondents' evaluation on environmental, social and physical contribution at study area is associated with great and intense values for city sustainability. Public opinion and reason to come to the study area should be taken into account by professionals since they are the users and responsible to ensure thesustainability of urban forest for future generation. Even though the overall percentage of survey showed that public gave good expectation, however, the small percentage could be an eye opener as they assumed the existing setting will face big challenge to sustain in the future.

scholarly journals Study on Urban Landscape Green Space -- A Case Study of Longquanshan Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 272 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Huan Dai ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Yan Zeng ◽  
Xinyang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Diversity Index ◽  
Evergreen Species ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Shrub Layer ◽  
Tree Layer ◽  
Deciduous Shrubs ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Richness Index

Studying on Qinglongshan Forest Park in Wuhan by typical plot method, 15 typical plots in the park were investigated, and the species richness index, diversity index, evenness index, frequency and important value index were calculated. The results showed that there were 139 species of woody plants belonging to 46 families and 97 genera, including 41 species of evergreen trees, 32 species of deciduous trees, 62 species of evergreen shrubs, 25 species of deciduous shrubs, and 4 species of bamboo belonging to 1 family, 3 genera. Species richness index and Simpson diversity index were all expressed as tree layer > shrub layer, evergreen species > deciduous species. Pielou evenness was tree layer > shrub layer. This study can provide some reference for understanding the existing plant status of forest parks, carrying out science popularization, scientific research, protection and improvement of forest landscape quality.

scholarly journals Visitors’ emotional expression in urban forest parks: What can we know about on-line facial images from the Social Networking Services?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoming Guan ◽  
Honxu Wei ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
Zhibin Ren ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
The Social ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Facial Images

Urban forests can attract visitors by the function of well-being improvement, which can be evaluated by analyzing the big-data from the social networking services (SNS). In this study, 935 facial images of visitors to nine urban forest parks were screened and downloaded from check-in records in the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog at cities of Changchun, Harbin, and Shenyang in Northeast China. Images were recognized for facial expressions by FaceReaderTM to read out eight emotional expressions: neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt. The number of images by women was larger than that by men. Compared to images from Changchun, those from Shenyang harbored higher neutral degree, which showed a positive relationship with the distance of forest park from downtown. In Changchun, the angry, surprised, and disgusted degrees decreased with the increase of distance of forest park from downtown, while the happy and disgusted degrees showed the same trend in Shenyang. In forest parks at city center and remote-rural areas, the neutral degree was positively correlated with the angry, surprised and contempt degrees but negatively correlated with the happy and disgusted degrees. In the sub-urban area the correlation of neutral with both surprised and disgusted degrees disappeared. Our study can be referred to by urban planning to evaluate the perceived well-being in urban forests through analyzing facial expressions of images from SNS.

scholarly journals Analyzing Visitors’ Preferences and Evaluation of Satisfaction Based on Different Attributes, with Forest Trails in the Akasawa National Recreational Forest, Central Japan

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tong Zhang ◽  
Weikang Zhang ◽  
Huan Meng ◽  
Zhi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Quality ◽  
Central Japan ◽  
Duration Of Stay ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Multigroup Data ◽  
Number Of Visits ◽  
Satisfaction Evaluation ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Trail Condition

For forest park managers and designers, it is very important to provide forest trails and high–quality forest landscapes that meet visitor’s needs. In this study, based on demographic characteristics, our main purpose is to analyze whether the preferences of visitors for different trails differ, and to discuss whether forest park visitors’ satisfaction is affected when preferences for choosing trails change, mainly in order to improve knowledge about visitors’ needs for forest walking spaces. Through this analysis, we can aid in the planning and management of forest parks to improve visitors’ experiences. We mainly consider five attributes, namely, sex, age, number of visitors, number of visits and duration of stay in the park, in a questionnaire, and use the Kruskal–Wallis Test and Mann–Whitney U Test to analyze multigroup data in “SPSS for Windows”. The results are as follows: (1) Visitors with different attributes exhibit significant differences in terms of their choices of forest trails and the evaluation of visitor satisfaction in the duration of stay. (2) The correlation analysis showed that trail condition factors, such as the degree of difficulty and facility status, affect the satisfaction evaluation of tourists on many levels. In addition, the number of visits by visitors is negatively correlated with the preference for a forest trail based on recreational indicators. (3) Compared to visitors who stay in the forest for a short amount of time, visitors who remain in the forest for longer have a higher satisfaction level. Based on these results, we recommend that parks consider the number of visits (visiting experience) and the duration of stays in the forest when planning walking routes to more effectively plan forest park trails.

scholarly journals Local responses to a forest park in western Uganda: alternate narratives on fortress conservation

Oryx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Hartter ◽  
Abraham Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
External Control ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Local Responses ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Western Uganda

AbstractMost research on attitudes to parks in sub-Saharan Africa has been in savannah regions and areas of low population density. Expulsion, exclusion and the imposition of external control are dominant themes, resulting in negative responses to parks, particularly those that represent hard-edged so-called fortress conservation. Our research in the densely populated area around a mid altitude forest park in western Uganda found an alternate narrative in which, despite its hard-edged fortress features, most people view Kibale National Park favourably. Based on a geographically random sample in two agricultural areas neighbouring the Park, our results indicate that most households felt they benefit from the Park and only a small proportion cited negative impacts. Rather than direct economic returns, the benefits most commonly noted by respondents can be characterized as ecosystem services. Most individual respondents and a large majority of the local political leaders said that the Park should continue to exist. Crop raiding by animals from the Park is a problem in some locations but resource restrictions and expulsion were not widely cited by our respondents. The fact that the large majority of residents migrated to the area after the Park was established may be an important explanatory factor for these responses, and this is also likely to be the case for many other mid altitude tropical forest parks, the demographic and land-use histories of which differ from those around many savannah parks.

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