TOURISM SCIENCE ›› 2015, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (6): 34-49.

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A Study of the Relationship between Visitor’s Perception of Recreational Impacts and Environmental Attitude in Wetland Parks: A Case Study of Nansha Wetland Park in Guangzhou

LIANG Mingzhu, WANG Jingwen, LIU Zhihong, SHEN Aiqing   

  1. Department of Tourism Management, School of Management,Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • Online:2015-12-31 Published:2019-01-11

Abstract: By taking Nansha Wetland Park in Guangzhou as a case in point, the authors examined the relationship between visitor’s perception of recreational impacts and environmental attitude from theperspective of visitors’ perception of recreational impacts and environmental attitude. With a literature review and data analysis, they did a scale development and extracted three factors of theperception of recreational impacts and four factors of environmental attitude. The former set includes ecological environment impact, social environment impact, and facility management impact, andthe later include environmental emotion, environmental ethics, environmental responsibility, and environmental knowledge. It’s found that the visitors’ perceptions of Nansha Wetland Park inGuangzhou are generally positive with a high degree of environmental attitude, the visitor’s perceptions of ecological environment impact has an negative affect on their environmental emotions, andthe perception of facility management impact affects their environmental emotion, environmental ethics and environmental knowledge negatively. With this result, the study put forward somesuggestions for the management of wetland parks in the perspectives of reducing the recreational impacts and enhancing the visitor’s environmental attitude.

Key words: Perception of recreational impacts, Environmental attitude, Nansha wetland park

CLC Number: 

  • F 592.7

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