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 …

The new corona virus infection SARS-CoV2 which was later renamed COVID-19 is a
pandemic affecting public health. The fear and the constraints imposed to control the …

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

This study expands existing models of proenvironmental behavior (PEB) to examine the
potentially important and interacting influences of nature-based recreation and sense of …

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

This study explored the relationships between the perception of restorative natural
environments, specialization in mountain hiking and flow experience. On-site interviews …

Birdwatching has grown in importance in recent decades as a new variant of niche tourism,
but has largely escaped geographical documentation. Global growth has been reflected in …

This article demonstrates the changes that occur due to the maturation of a wildlife tourism
industry through the application of a Wildlife Tourism Framework. Specifically, in 2005 …

This article sought to determine the efficacy of a self-classification measure of recreation
specialization, relative to two-multi-item approaches, in predicting other aspects of …

Studies about charismatic bird species have been carried out using the general public;
among the most common charismatic attributes are body mass and coloration. However …