Avitourism is an emerging sub-sector of the nature-based tourism industry, where tourist
travel motivations are focused around birdwatching. Certain aspects of the industry are yet to …

Tourism is an inherently social phenomenon. Tourists travel with others and experience
places and cultures through interacting with both familiar and unfamiliar others. This volume …

Recreational specialization has generally been treated by leisure researchers as a measure
of intensity of involvement and has been used to explore variation among activity …

This study aims to identify international birders' motivations and preferred destination
attributes using the push–pull framework, and to explore their travel behaviors. Through …

Surfers are characterized by the time and effort they invest in surfing and their propensity to
travel in search for the perfect wave. In spite of such characteristics and the economic …

The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct
forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the …

Birders represent a significant component of wildlife users, but birders are not a
homogeneous group. This study develops a recreation specialization framework for birders …

This purpose of this paper was to test a three-dimensional model of recreational
specialization developed by. The model suggests recreational specialization could be …

Many rural communities are examining nature tourism options, such as birdwatching
(birding), as an economic development strategy. Unfortunately, public media stories, tourism …

A number of recent studies have focused on place attachment, defined as the extent to
which a person values or identifies with a particular setting. Some studies suggest that place …