Journal article
Valuation of Tourism to Protected Marine Environments
Tourism in Marine Environments, Vol.17(1-2), pp.1-25
2022
Abstract
The increasing impacts of climate change on our most vulnerable protected areas has brought into focus the need for a better understanding of human-environment interactions. While it is established that visitation and place attachment can lead to conservation, the literature calls for further research into the valuation of tourism to protected marine environments, which manifest through emotional stability and environmental worldviews, how these differ across key visitor groups. Such an understanding will assist with creating support amongst global markets to better protect our most vulnerable environmental visitor assets.Through a survey of Australia’s key visitor markets (n=1,225), using the iconic Great Barrier Reef (GBR) as the vulnerable protected marine environment in question, this research establishes a clear positive relationship between emotional stability and environmental worldview and the greater valuation of the GBR. Moreover, the results reveal differences insocial resilience and protected area valuation across the different markets, as well as betweenprevious and potential visitors to the GBR.
Details
- Title
- Valuation of Tourism to Protected Marine Environments
- Authors
- Brent Moyle (Author) - Griffith UniversityChar-lee McLennan (Author) - School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, AustraliaAlexandra Bec (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- Tourism in Marine Environments, Vol.17(1-2), pp.1-25
- Publisher
- Cognizant Communication Corporation
- DOI
- 10.3727/154427322X16434959176122
- ISSN
- 2169-0197
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre; USC Business School - Legacy; School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99608307402621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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