Sensory Tourism book to be published soon

 Our book is expected this fall. 

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How Will Recreation on Public Lands Be Different in 2050?

 How Will Recreation on Public Lands Be Different in 2050?

Read the summary here.

and the full report here.

Abstract:

This report provides a look at changes that could come to pass and impact recreation on public lands over the next 30 years. The data were over 700 horizon scan hits from our Forest Futures Horizon Scanning Project. Horizon scan hits are a useful early warning system. Horizon scan hits may be directly related to outdoor recreation (e.g., the decline of snow fall) or they may be indirectly related (e.g., the development of lab-grown meat). Because weak signals of change are as important as strong signals, a single scan hit is worthy of consideration, even if it stands alone. These horizon scan hits point to uncertainty and volatility in recreation activities on public lands. Some scan hits point to significant decline in traditional activities, while other scan hits point to increases. New activities are emerging, and there are many crosswinds in domains outside recreation that will impact delivery of recreation on public lands. Climate change is already implicated in recreation changes, from reduced snow fall, to human and animal migration, to reduced biodiversity. Other potential changes on the horizon include changing attitudes toward nature, a growing role for time in forests as a component of healthcare, electrification of many modes of travel, rising potential for augmented reality (AR) in outdoor recreation, the rise in passenger drones changing how people get to recreation sites, the potential for robots to assist with recreation management, and more. Therefore, there are many plausible futures for recreation on public lands. This makes planning more complicated, and the use of additional strategic foresight methods may help decision-makers think about the range of possible futures, and to plan for a preferrable future for outdoor recreation.

Westphal, Lynne M. 2022. The future of recreation on public lands: a horizon scan. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-208. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 106 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-208.

and

this one.

Abstract:

Horizon scanning is a method for detecting and interpreting the implications of emerging issues and other signals of change, both within and outside of an organization or field. Anticipating possible changes that may affect an organization is a first step toward strategic thinking, planning, and actions that can help prepare it for an uncertain future. Developing insight into emerging possible futures—or strategic foresight—can help decisionmakers respond proactively to seize opportunities and mitigate potential threats. Decisionmaking in forestry and other natural resource management fields has underutilized formal horizon scanning.

The USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station's Strategic Foresight Group recently worked with the University of Houston Foresight graduate program to design and implement a formal horizon scanning system for the agency, with the goal of increasing strategic foresight. The nine papers in this report summarize the early phases of this process and lessons learned. Among the topics are the development of a method to identify useful scanning sources pertinent to forest futures, ways to analyze scanning hits, and distinguishing between current and emerging issues for the Forest Service. Also discussed is the range of communication products generated to date by the project. The report contains the complete guide written for those volunteering to do the scanning. This collection will acquaint forest planners, managers, and policymakers with horizon scanning as an integral step in anticipating the consequences of potential change and making better decisions in a rapidly changing environment.

Hines, Andy; Bengston, David N.; Dockry, Michael J., comps. 2019. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-187. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 81 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-P-187

Appalachian Trail Bibliography

 Here is a list of my papers and presentations that deal with the Appalachian Trail.

Bristow, R. S., Judkins, J., & Schottanes, J. (2022). Appalachian Trail Communities: a 100 year model of regional planning. Chapter 2 in Slocum, S. L., Wiltshier, P., & Read IV, J. B. (Eds.). Transformations in Protected Area Management and Gateway Communities: Alternative Approaches to Tourism and Community Engagement (pp. 10-23). CABI.

Bristow, R. S. (2022). Herding 6,000 Volunteers.  Chapter 9 in Holmes, K., L. Lockstone-Binney, K. Smith & R. Shipway (eds.) Handbook of Volunteering in Events, Sport and Tourism (pp. 112-121). Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780367815875-11

Bristow, R. S. (2021). Adventure Voluntourism: Help Manage Your Park.  Tourism Cases. CABI. https://tourism.cabi.org/casestudies/adventure-voluntourism-help-manage-your-park/summary/20210272603/

Bristow, R. S. (2019). Altruistic Adventure Voluntourism: help manage the park you visit. in Jenkins, I.  Adventure Tourism (pp. 145-154). CABI. 

Bristow, R. S. (2019). Appalachian Trail Cultural Resource Stewardship Manual prepared for the Appalachian Trail, Berkshire Chapter AT Committee, Appalachian Mountain Club.

Bristow, R. S., & Therien, A. (2019). Discovering archaeological landscapes in parks and protected areas. North American Archaeologist.  Volume 40 Issue 2, pp. 99–115   doi: 10.1177/0197693119868912

“Cultural Resource Monitoring of the Appalachian Trail with LiDAR” Paper presented at the New England – St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Conference, Framingham, MA October 2019.

“Industrial Archaeology: Protection of Heritage Sites in Parks and Protected Areas.” Paper presented at the National Environment and Recreation Research Symposium, Annapolis, MD. April 2018.

Bristow, R. S. (2004).  Volunteer-based Recreation Land Management: The Eyes and Ears for the Appalachian Trail.  Global Challenges of Parks and Protected Area Management. Ignazio Camarda, editor.  Sassari, Italy:  Università degli Studi di Sassari. p. 71-78.

Bristow, R. S., Knoettner, G. & Wagner, R.   (1998).   "Monitoring Appalachian Corridors".  Proceedings of the Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium-1997. USDA-FS General Tech. Report NE-241, pp. 268-271.  http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/17192.

Bristow, R. S. (1998). Volunteer-Based Recreation Land Management.  Parks and Recreation.  August. pp. 70-76.

Appalachian Trail 1974-1975

 In my research of the AT in the early seventies. I got the 2,000 miler applications for the two years from the Appalachian Trail Archives, housed in the Special Collections at George Mason University:

Join us for “An Evening in the Archives” ft. The Appalachian Conservancy Trail Collection | News (gmu.edu)

I missed this talk, but have been getting papers and such from the collection.

So on this date in 1975

George Conger

Ralph Ferrusi

Gordon King

Chris Lea

Completed the 2,000 Mile AT!

Congrats.

2022 State of the Trails by the Partnership for the National Trails System

 Visit the Partnership for the National Trails System to see this report:

source : 2022 State of the Trails (pnts.org)

Rail Trails paper finally published

 I want to thank my friend and colleague Alina Gross for taking the lead on this Rail Trail paper that sat on my computer for years and finally getting it out to be reviewed.

Gross, A., & Bristow , R. (2022). Rail trails and housing values: A longitudinal study. Turyzm/Tourism, 32(2), 107–126. https://doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.32.2.06

View of Rail trails and housing values: A longitudinal study (lodz.pl)

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TRINET

 

Tourism Research Information Network

I thought I would introduce a listserv that deals with tourism for you.

From their website:

What is TRINET?

TRINET is an email distribution list that connects members of the international tourism research and education community. Its purpose is to promote an open exchange of ideas, information, and opinions that are relevant to tourism scholarship, including theory, research, education, policy development, and operational matters.

Postings are primarily of an intellectual and scholarly nature. TRINET does not accept postings that are purely commercial. Announcements which promote communication, research, education and scholarship, such as conference announcements, new books, announcements of academic positions, and the availability of funding and scholarship awards fit the spirit and mission of TRINET.

Liminal Tourist Landscapes

Tourism Geographies Vol. 22, No. 2, May 2020 
SPECIAL ISSUE: Liminal Tourist Landscapes 

Spatial and temporal tourism considerations in liminal landscapes. - Robert S. Bristow & Ian S. Jenkins (Guest Editors) - Liminality, liminoid, spatial and temporal considerations, tourism landscapes, 阈限, 类阈限, 旅游景观, 时空因素

Liminality at-sea: cruises to nowhere and their metaworlds - Bradley Rink -  Liminality, cruise tourism, alcotourism, party tourism, debauchery tourism, South Africa, 阈限, 邮轮旅游, 美酒旅游, 派对旅游, 纵情旅游, 南非

The liminality in popular festivals: identity, belonging and hedonism as values of tourist satisfaction - Lorena Rodríguez-Campo, Fátima Braña-Rey, Elisa Alén-González & José Antonio Fraiz-Brea - Rural landscapes, liminoid spaces, liminal experience, communitas, hedonism, individual changes, festive ritual, A Festa do Boi (Spain), satisfaction, behavioural intentions, 乡村景观, 类阀限空间, 阈限体验;共同体, 享乐主义, 个人的变化, 节日仪式, 西班牙亚马逊复活牛节, 满意度, 行为意向​

Between space and place in mountaineering: navigating risk, death, and power - Maggie C. Miller & Heather Mair - Liminal landscapes, adventure tourism, mountaineering, death, Sherpas, Nepal, 阈限景观；探险旅游；登山；死亡；夏尔巴人；尼泊尔

Liminality in nature-based tourism experiences as mediated through social media - Eugenio Conti & Susanna Heldt Cassel - Liminality, liminal space, nature-based tourism, tourism experience, social media, Instagram, netnography, 阈限, 阈限空间, 自然旅游, 旅游体验, 社交媒体, 即时照片墙, 网络民族志

Liminality Wanted. Liminal landscapes and literary spaces: The Way of St. James - Rubén C. Lois González & Lucrezia Lopez - The Way of St. James, Pilgrimage Landscapes, Liminality, Communitas, Travel Narratives, Liminal Literary Spaces, 圣詹姆斯之路, 朝圣景观, 阀限, 共同体, 游记, 阀限文学空间

Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism - Velvet Nelson - Liminality, difficult heritage, slavery, tourist reviews, TripAdvisor, slave huts, Bonaire, Caribbean, 阈限, 艰难的遗产, 奴隶制, 旅游评论, 猫途鹰, 奴隶小屋, 博内尔岛, 加勒比

South African township residents describe the liminal potentialities of tourism. - Meghan L. Muldoon - Townships, South Africa, race, liminality, apartheid, slum tourism, poverty tourism, tourism encounters, 城镇, 南非, 种族, 阈限, 种族隔离, 贫民窟旅游, 扶贫旅游, 旅游相遇​

Communitas in fright tourism. - Robert S. Bristow - Liminoid, communitas, fright tourism, dark attractions, fear, tourist travel phases, 阈值, 社群, 恐惧旅游, 黑暗景点, 恐惧, 旅行阶段

Dark tourism and moral disengagement in liminal spaces - (Open Access) - Nitasha Sharma - Agency, Dark tourism, India, liminality, moral disengagement, transgressive behavior, 黑暗旅游, 阈限, 道德脱离, 代理, 越轨行为, 印度

Change within the change: pregnancy, liminality and adventure tourism in Mexico. - Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión, Paola Vizcaino-Suárez & Hugo Gaggiotti - Adventure tourism, gender, Latin America, liminality, Mexico, pregnancy, rhizomatic body, 性别, 怀孕, 阈限, 根状体, 探险旅游, 墨西哥, 拉丁美洲

Transformative landscapes: liminality and visitors’ emotional experiences at German memorial sites - Doreen Pastor & Alexander J. Kent - Liminality, memory tourism, memorial sites, palimpsest, Germany, visitor research, visitor maps, 阈限, 记忆旅游, 纪念地, 重写本, 德国, 游客研究, 游客地图

(thanks to Alan Lew for the translations)

See the entire list of papers at this link.

Dark Tourism papers in future Tourism Geographies Journal

Dark Tourism Themed Papers in Special Issue on Spatial and temporal tourism considerations in liminal landscapes found in a forthcoming issue of Tourism Geographies.

Doreen Pastor & Alexander J. Kent (2020): Transformative landscapes: liminality and visitors’ emotional experiences at German memorial sites, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1725617

Nitasha Sharma (2020) Dark tourism and moral disengagement in liminal spaces, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713877

Robert S. Bristow (2020) Communitas in fright tourism, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708445

Meghan L. Muldoon (2019) South African township residents describe the liminal potentialities of tourism, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1648545

Velvet Nelson (2019) Liminality and difficult heritage in tourism, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1666161

Maggie C. Miller & Heather Mair (2019) Between space and place in mountaineering: navigating risk, death, and power, Tourism Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1654538

NEW Tourism Geographies ARTICLES AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW!

Tourism Geographies newest papers are online.

Articles The real Burgundy: negotiating wine tourism, relational place and the global countryside Joanna Fountain, Steve Charters & Laurence Cogan-Marie Pages: 1-21 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713880 Who is the city for? Overtourism, lifestyle migration and social sustainability Jaime Jover & Ibán Díaz-Parra Pages: 1-24 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713878 Decolonising the ‘autonomy of affect’ in volunteer tourism encounters Phoebe Everingham & Sara Catherine Motta Pages: 1-21 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713879 Emplacing non-human voices in tourism research: the role of dissensus as a qualitative method Abhik Chakraborty Pages: 1-26 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713875 Resident tourists and the local 'other' Gijsbert Hoogendoorn & Daniel Hammett Pages: 1-19 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713882 Exploring virtual reality experiences of slum tourism Tom Griffin & Meghan Muldoon Pages: 1-20 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713881 Dark tourism and moral disengagement in liminal spaces |  Nitasha Sharma Pages: 1-25 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1713877 Communitas in fright tourism Robert S. Bristow Pages: 1-19 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708445 Lifestyle, profit, and the selling of home to tourists in Lijiang, China Xiaobo Su, Heqing Zhang & Xiaomei Cai Pages: 1-20 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708447 Host communities and last chance tourism Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing & Po-Hsin Lai Pages: 1-18 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708446 Book Reviews A review of: The Future of Airbnb and the ‘Sharing Economy’. The Collaborative Consumption of Our Cities By J. A. Oskam, 2019, Channel View Publications, Bristol, UK, 192 pages, £29.95/$39.95/€34.95 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-84541-672-0 Maartje Roelofsen Pages: 1-4 | DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708448

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Peer Review Week 16-20 September 2019

Wow, who knew about Peer Review Week?

What's Peer Review?  Well short answer is the unbiased review of research.  It is like when some medical doctor writes about some new treatment.  These external review people check to make sure the research is appropriate and accurate given the parameters of the study.

Typically this is blind where the author doesn't know the reviewer and vice versa. There are other considerations, but that is the "cliff note version.

Incidentally, that is why the web is frequently garbage since no checks and balances.  So take my blog with a grain of salt.

SERR 2016 CFP

The SERR conference was my first professional meeting as a grad student.  Check it out at http://www.serrconference.org/.

You get access the Proceedings from the site, for example, try this link.

Recreation habits continue into Retirement

The literature notes that participation in recreation activities as a mature adult will continue into retirement. While the rate may decline, older residents in Massachusetts are attracted to rivers, agricultural lands, trails and greenways.

Using Census data from the 2005-2009 ACS research we get this kind of relationship.

Sorry folks 2010 data at the tract level (or Zip Code) ain't out yet.

Proceedings of the 2000 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

About time eh? Well click on the title link to see papers like:

Constraints and benefits of changing the distribution process for recreation special use permits in the U.S. Meybin, Jessie; Burns, Robert; Graefe, Alan; Absher, James D.

Changes in national park visitation (2000-2008) and interest in outdoor activities (1993-2008). Warnick, Rodney B.; Schuett, Michael A.; Kuentzel, Walt; More, Thomas A.

Recreation trails in Maine and New Hampshire: A comparison of motorized, non-motorized, and non-mechanized trails. Wilkerson, Ethel; Whitman, Andrew.

Experiences of campers and campsite impacts in the St. Regis Canoe Area Wilderness. Dawson, Chad P.; Schuster, Rudy M.; Propst, Blake M.; Black, Corenne.


NERR. Always a good source of recreation research!

NERR a success

yep, just got home from the annual road trip to the NERR conference held for that past 15 plus years at the Sagamore. Researchers from 29 states and a half a dozen countries braved the pleasant spring weather to give talks on recreation themed topics. Besides the typically outdoor recreation and management sessions, there were papers on diverse populations, climate change, planning and partnerships, ecotourism and a lot more!

Maybe you can go next year?

NERR Proceedings available

The Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium Proceedings for 2008 are now online at
http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/17101.

Check out the great papers!