Hikers? Motives for Choosing a Hiking Trail - Evidence from the Czech Landscape Protected Areas

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Hikers? Motives for Choosing a Hiking Trail - Evidence from the Czech Landscape Protected Areas

Original language description

The article aims to extent the previous studies dealing with hiking and hikers? characteristics by focusing on hikers? motives for coming to nature based recreation areas and their motives for choosing a hiking trail. The special attention is paid on tourists coming for sportive motives. To estimate the odds by which the hikers choose a hiking trail, logistic regression is applied, and seven logit models are developed. The dependent variables in estimated models are, besides the motives for choosing hiking trail, also gender, age and education. Data for estimated model were gathered through respondents? surveys in protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic. Results show that hikers choose a trail mainly according to the surrounding landscape appearance. The research also proved that sportive reasons are more likely to choose a hiking trail according to the length of the trail and the position of start/finish than hikers coming for nature. The hikers profile fits the hikers? profil

Czech name

Hikers? Motives for Choosing a Hiking Trail - Evidence from the Czech Landscape Protected Areas

Czech description

The article aims to extent the previous studies dealing with hiking and hikers? characteristics by focusing on hikers? motives for coming to nature based recreation areas and their motives for choosing a hiking trail. The special attention is paid on tourists coming for sportive motives. To estimate the odds by which the hikers choose a hiking trail, logistic regression is applied, and seven logit models are developed. The dependent variables in estimated models are, besides the motives for choosing hiking trail, also gender, age and education. Data for estimated model were gathered through respondents? surveys in protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic. Results show that hikers choose a trail mainly according to the surrounding landscape appearance. The research also proved that sportive reasons are more likely to choose a hiking trail according to the length of the trail and the position of start/finish than hikers coming for nature. The hikers profile fits the hikers? profil

Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

4th International Conference on Tourism Research

ISBN

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ISSN

2261-2424

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

150-157

Publisher name

EDP Sciences

Place of publication

Kota Kinabalu, Malajsie

Event location

Malajsie

Event date

Dec 9, 2014

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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