Great Walk Visitor satisfactions, impact perceptions, and attitudes toward management options Surveys Research Completed

Title

Great Walk Visitor satisfactions, impact perceptions, and attitudes toward management options Surveys

Lead Author

Cessford, G.

Organisation(s)

Department of Conservation

Publication Year

1998

Publisher

Department of Conservation

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Abstract

Walkers on the [Great Walk Tracks listed in Contacts] were surveyed during 1994, as part of a wider study of track users in New Zealand. Their visit evaluations were highly positive, suggesting little dissatisfaction or any need for urgent management action. Other results indicated that further improvements to visit quality would be best achieved through improving the use of space in huts. Perceptions of crowding and social and physical impacts indicated that visit-experience problems would emerge with future increase in use-levels, particularly due to hut congestion difficulties, with which crowding was highly associated. Visitors favoured information-based management to address these increasing use-pressures rather than more regulatory controls or facility developments. Attitudes were largely split towards booking systems. New Zealand visitors tended to be more resistant to most options for management of their recreation activities, particularly if based upon more direct types of controls.

Keywords:

Great Walk. Heaphy, Abel Tasman, Kepler Milford, Lake Waikaremoana, Tongariro, Satisfaction, Survey, Management, Walk, Tramp, Trail, Track

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