Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Manage is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Postleisure: Disrupting the Disciplinary Fixity of Leisure Thinking92
The cognitive and conative image in insular marine protected areas: A study from Galapagos, Ecuador86
Thinking big: The role of mega trails in creating meaning and sense of place to conserve large landscapes79
The influences of paragliding flow experience on storytelling intention through satisfaction: A comparison of adventure-seekers and learning-seekers64
Leveraging human mobility data to assess recreational activity across the United States’ most visited National Forest61
Inclusive pathways to understand differential forest recreation participation among ethnoracial minorities in the United States59
Mapping the excess demand for recreation in Northern Ireland to inform land use policy49
Understanding exposure to avalanche terrain and avalanche information product use of snowshoers and winter hikers: Insights from Mount Seymour Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada49
Leisure constraint and mental health: The case of park users in Ningbo, China48
Exploring the potential of forest rental services as a tool for balancing recreation and forestry47
Been there, done that? Effects of centrality-to-lifestyle and experience use history on angling tourists’ loyalty to a Swedish salmon fishery43
The impact of recreational activities on species at risk in Canada42
Ecological Footprint and tourism: Development and sustainability monitoring of ecotourism packages in Mediterranean Protected Areas40
Senior outdoor tourists’ injuries, illnesses & infirmities: Reveal or conceal?37
Strategic interventions for enhancing destination competitiveness in island-based adventure tourism: Insights from a small island destination36
Editorial Board35
Understanding memorable tourism experiences and behavioural intentions at geothermal destinations: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach32
Editorial: Introduction to sustainably managing outdoor recreation and nature-based tourism as social-ecological complex adaptive systems31
Hiking-related degradation of alpine landscape in Low Tatras national park (Slovakia) during the COVID-19 pandemic31
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the popularity of protected areas for mountain biking and hiking in Australia: Insights from volunteered geographic information30
Older adults’ preferences for natural environment and rural life: Intergenerational transmission of pro-environmental motivation30
The importance of pro-environmental behavior in advancing sustainable tourism30
Urban space use for outing before and during the pandemic: A case study of Daejeon, South Korea using social media posts29
Cases and context: Mask-related behaviors among U.S. trail visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic28
Stand-up paddling: A case study on the effect and impact pathway of information and appeals to reduce ecological conflicts27
Research note: Spatial variations of condition class in Clifty Wilderness, Daniel Boone National Forest, KY, USA26
Factors promoting nature-based outdoor recreation during the daytime and evening25
Crawling with a vehicle: Rock-crawlers’ recreation specialization, motivation, and sources of challenges24
Does language make a difference? Exploring the hiking experience of a nation-specific online community23
Sociodemographics and impacts of wreck divers in Tulamben, Indonesia22
Conceptualising the power of outdoor adventure activities for subjective well-being: A systematic literature review22
Using social media user profiles to identify visitor demographics and origins in Yellowstone national park22
Novice tourists’ play experience in commercial outdoor adventure tourism: The perspective of reversal theory22
Climate change adaptation in the ski industry: Stakeholders' perceptions regarding a mountain resort in Southeastern Europe21
Who walks the Park? Revealing changes in trail use patterns through two decades of trekking registers in Patagonia21
Camping in clearcuts: The impacts of timber harvesting on USFS campground utilization20
Editorial Board20
Strava Metro mobility data provides accurate estimates of recreation use in Urban-Proximate Protected Areas19
Estimating park visitation in Canadian national parks using volunteered geographic information (VGI)19
Exploring urban waterscape perceptions: relating landscape visual character and landscape image through a multi-perspective approach19
“To use or not to use” - Mobile technology in nature-based tourism experience18
Tourism flow and the consumption of aesthetic landscape values in high-elevation mountain areas in the Alps: A cartographic and spatio-market methodology18
Exploring the gendered landscape of the avalanche safety industry – barriers, benefits and potential drawbacks of professional diversity18
Adaptation to climate change in nature-based tourist destination in northern Ghana18
Eudaimonic well-being development: Motives driving mountain-based adventure tourism18
From knowledge to responsible actions: The roles of willingness to sacrifice and personal involvement in carry-out trash behavior18
The residents' participation in tourism based social entrepreneurship organization: Evidence from residents’ perception on ecosphere social enterprise17
Outdoor recreation shows promise as an equitable context for youth informal STEM learning in amenity-rich rural areas17
Squeezing the most from volunteered geographic information to monitor mountain biking in peri-urban protected and recreational areas at a metropolitan scale17
Recreation and disarray: Analysis of disorder in U.S. national parks16
A step towards a greener green? Investigating golfers’ relationships with nature and attitudes about biodiversity conservation in golf courses16
Editorial Board16
Intra-spatial displacement at high-use recreation destinations: Employing spatial analyses to explore visitor behavior16
Peaks and passion: Examining the dynamics of workplace commitments among outdoor sport guides16
Dysfunctional tourism behaviors in national parks: An exploration of causes, typologies, and consequences in the case of Saharan tourism16
The recreational value of botanic garden events: A case study of the Zagara plant fair in Palermo, Italy16
Examining the influence of activity attachment on responsible angling behavior: Insights from anglers at a friendly fishing demonstration site16
Pleasure and restriction: The relationships between community tourism experience value and visitor management16
Discourse about national parks on social media: Insights from Twitter16
From soft to hard adventure: Examining experienced mountaineers’ mountaineering intentions through the lens of the theory of planned behavior16
Climate Resource View (CRV): A case of thermal safety at United States national parks16
Optimizing spatial distribution of parks based on the preference for park types: A case study with an improved two-step floating catchment area method15
Natural attributes or aesthetic attributes: Which is more valuable in recreational ecosystem services of nature-based parks considering tourists’ environmental knowledge and attitude impacts?15
The effect of event quality on participants’ intention to revisit a sport event: Monetary valuation and mitigation of hypothetical bias15
Nature always recovers! A degrowth analysis of event participants’ perspective on environmental impacts15
Influence of digital technologies on hikers' spatial behaviour and perception15
Editorial Board15
Understanding outdoor fitness equipment in South Australia: Insights from council employees and an environmental audit15
Deep nature glamping in Germany – Potentials and configuration of a nature tourism offer15
Landscape management and planning as a spatial organization method connecting CES supply-demand assessment and sustainable tourism development15
Perceived constraints to participating in wildlife-related recreation14
The impact of COVID-19 on the Australian outdoor recreation industry from the perspective of practitioners14
Understanding visitors' personality perceptions of winter destinations: Evidences from Chinese travelers14
Changes in travel behaviors and intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic and recovery period: A case study of China14
The art of making fire-with14
Beyond the buzzwords: Rethinking sustainability in adventure tourism through real travellers practices14
Bird photos as trophies: Status signalling, reinforcement, and competition14
Trail sustainability broadly defined14
The underdog effect: Towards a conceptual framework for enhancing voluntourism14
Resilience-based preferences for technology-enhanced hiking services in Mount Semeru, Indonesia14
Gateway community stakeholders’ perceived impacts of protected area management actions: The case of North Carolina (U.S.) state parks14
Understanding visitor compliance with cross-country ski trail passes under open access14
Sustainable recreation and tourism: Making sense of diverse conceptualizations and management paradigms13
Beneath the lens: Exploring the impacts of underwater photographers in marine-based tourism13
Invasive plant hitchhikers: Appalachian Trail thru-hiker knowledge and attitudes of invasive plants and leave No trace practices13
Editorial Board13
Psychological well-being among European tourists on the Spanish Mediterranean coast: Results from the BlueTORRE study13
Economic impacts of trail destinations: The case of the Peaks of the Balkans trail13
Understanding spatial inequities in urban neighborhood park services: A mixed method study in Taiwan13
Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers13
Research note: The impact of advanced information communication technologies on visitor acceptance of forest management in response to emerald ash borer13
Successful camping operators: Performance measurement using cluster analysis and DEA methods.13
Matching destination difficulty and participant capability in outdoor recreation and tourism: role of third-party certifications for 15 activities in 52 countries13
Research note: Ski touring on groomed slopes and the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential trigger for motivational changes12
Editorial Board12
The value of social distancing: A discrete choice experiment to examine golf tourists’ preferences for COVID-19 Safety protocols12
Foreign tourists' preferences for destination attributes in Japan's national parks: A best-worst scaling analysis12
Not seeing the wood for the (invasive) trees: Visitors’ perceptions of invasive wilding conifers in the New Zealand landscape12
In what context do scholars differentiate recreation and tourism in park studies?12
Biking-hiking conflicts and their mitigation in urban recreation areas: Results of a quasi-experimental long-term evaluation in the Zurich forest12
The impact of graphic design on attention capture and behavior among outdoor recreationists: Results from an exploratory persuasive signage experiment12
A comparative analysis of the value of recreation in six contrasting Nordic landscapes using the travel cost method12
Soundscapes experience at spiritual tourism area of Goa Maria Sendangsono, Yogyakarta, Indonesia11
Understanding vehicle noise as an indicator of soundscape quality in Denali National Park and Preserve11
A nationwide assessment of awareness about US national parks11
How ocean beach recreational quality fits with safety issues? An analysis of risky behaviours in France11
From reviews to returns in glamping: Mining eWOM to evaluate quality and predict tourists’ revisit intentions11
Tailoring tourism strategies: Exploring the role of demographics in shaping domestic tourists' perceptions: The case of domestic tourists in Da Nang City, Vietnam11
Understanding encounters between recreationists and livestock guardian dogs as a basis for conflict management11
Wildlife-based tour operators complying with the principles of responsible tourism: Influence of moral and legal persuasions10
Assessing the camping competitiveness using a clustering approach10
Contemporary issues, opportunities, and resources for the U.S. outdoor recreation profession10
Assessing the effectiveness of signs to change littering behavior in a Norwegian national park10
Editorial Board10
The spatial network structure of the U.S. outdoor recreation economy and its influencing factors10
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SCUBA diving experience in marine protected areas10
COVID-19 compliance among urban trail users: Behavioral insights and environmental implications10
The role of brand associations on the development of place attachment into outdoor adventure tourism destinations10
Monitoring visitor activity and informal trail disturbance in Yosemite Valley meadows to assess temporal changes in use and impacts10
The influence of trekkers’ personal and subjective norms on their pro-environmental behaviors10
Winter backcountry travel and avalanche airbags: Assessing risk-taking in a field study10
Understanding regional economic impacts of recreation spending at a public lake: A case study in rural Oklahoma, USA10
Four dimensions of sustainable governance for National Scenic Trails9
Understanding coastal zone innovation: The ‘Waterdunen’ project as an ecology of practices9
The role of health and wellbeing in shaping local park experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic9
How does tourist learning affect destination attachment in nature-based tourism: Multiple mediations comparison and distal mediation analysis9
How to develop a road cycling tourism destination. Girona as a case study9
Living in an untouchable world: Barriers to recreation and tourism for Portuguese blind people during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Editorial Board9
Introducing sense of place narratives in image projection for marine destinations9
Tourists’ perceptions of proximity tourism: Insights from sentiment analysis and fsQCA9
Role of therapeutic landscapes and emotional experiences in the relationship between water-based recreational experiences, well-being, and environmental behaviors9
Experiential value and environmentally responsible behavioral intention in rock-climbing tourism: The role of place attachment and biospheric value9
Awe experiences on Kumano Kodo with a kataribe9
Editorial Board9
Trans Canada trail: A shared-use network of pathways from coast to coast to coast9
Mountain hut managers as observers of overtourism in natural areas: Perceived tourism carrying capacity in the Italian Alps9
Natural and built capital as factors shaping tourism in a South African Key Biodiversity Area.8
Children's recreation as a comparative advantage tool for camping businesses8
The impact of perceived unfavorable weather on tourist loyalty in high-altitude destinations: The case of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China8
Combining camera traps and artificial intelligence for monitoring visitor frequencies in natural areas: Lessons from a case study in the Belgian Ardenne8
Unravelling the eco-motivated journey: The role of gender and motivation in shaping loyalty in mangrove ecotourism8
Evaluating aesthetic preferences of Patagonian glacier landscape and perspectives for mountain tourism development in climate change context8
Covid-19 and outdoor recreation – Lessons learned? Introduction to the special issue on “Outdoor recreation and Covid-19: Its effects on people, parks and landscapes”8
Support of residents for sustainable tourism development in nature-based destinations: Applying theories of social exchange and bottom-up spillover8
The experiential dynamics of winter sports: Interrelationships of perceived experiences, norms, behavioural control and behavioural intentions8
Change of urban park use before and during the COVID-19 pandemic determined by on-site observation: A comparative study in Zhengzhou, China8
Assessment of recreational and tourist cycling routes. Case study in the West Region of Portugal8
Actor-network theory and organizational resilience to climate change in community-based tourism8
Application of cell phone users’ location data to visitor monitoring in natural parks: A case study of Mount Fuji8
Prepared food on the trail: Exploring sustainability in outdoor recreation food choices8
Effects of mindful interpretation strategies on interpretation value-during-use and interpretation value-after-use8
Meaningful community participation for effective development of sustainable tourism: Bibliometric analysis towards a quintuple helix model8
Buried alive: A qualitative study of avalanche survivors learning experience8
Assessing visitor perceptions of recreation benefits from nearby public lands7
Factors influencing and controlling vandalism by tourists and local indigenous communities at the Fandoghlou forest natural site7
Consumption for conservation: determinants of purchasing local products by ecotourists to conserving protected forests7
Thru-hikers’ attitudes about potential management actions for interactions with grizzly bears along the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail7
“It calms me and scares me all at once”: A qualitative content analysis study of the links between surfing and mental health in New South Wales, Australia7
Book Review7
Dysfunctional information feedbacks cause the emergence of management panaceas in social-ecological systems: The case of fish stocking in inland recreational fisheries7
A joyful river ride: A transformative event experience7
Seeing the forest for the trees: A social-ecological systems approach to managing outdoor recreation visitation in parks and protected areas7
Eye-catching or breath-catching: Role and landscape attributes of pauses differs among hikers’ profile when rambling in a French mountainous area7
Defining contemporary outdoor physical activity: A critical interpretive synthesis7
Spatial and temporal patterns in wildlife tourism encounters and how people feel about them based on social media data from South Africa7
Accessible tourism – Nature-based activities for all, needs for assistive devices and information among people with disabilities7
Comparing place meanings of recreational visits to coastal and inland nature7
Research note: An evaluation of potential locations for the Bears Ears National Monument cultural center7
Mixed-methodological insights on post-disaster destination revisit strategies: How tourists decide to return?7
Clustering marine wildlife voluntourism to evaluate its potential for southern Africa and beyond7
“Story Type” or “column Type”: The differential impacts of different types of outdoor safety education on hikers' safety participation behaviors6
Use of social media data, online reviews and wikipedia page views to measure visitation patterns of outdoor attractions6
Entertainers, not educators? Social media influencers and risk communication in outdoor travel6
Investigating the coexistence of ecological quality and recreational activity in urban green spaces during the summer6
Bridging policy and practice: Organizational and psychological factors shaping outdoor recreation in Brazilian protected areas6
Impacts of participation in scientific activities on marine tourists’ engagement and individual learning outcomes6
Fitness tests as predictors of physical exertion on graded hiking trails6
Visitation patterns in a peri-urban natural park: Comparing mountain bikers, runners, walkers and hikers6
Navigating complexities in forest visitation modelling: Intersecting environmental, social, and public health factors during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Linking visitor perceptions and behaviours related to ticks and lyme disease to risk management strategies in a protected areas context6
Values and benefits of inclusive outdoor physical activities with a hiking mountain wheelchair6
Heterogeneity in trips to green natural spaces: A travel cost approach across UK sites6
Protected area management effectiveness and COVID-19: The case of Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia6
Impacts of nature relatedness and motivation on active outdoor recreation participation6
The impact mechanism of spatial richness on tourist sentiments in cultural tourism towns6
Outdoor recreation in a changing climate: Visitors’ impacts, coping strategies, and intent to return to Parks and Protected Areas in New Hampshire, USA5
‘Into the darkness’ – The caving community and their tourist experiences. The Polish case5
Climate change-induced droughts and tourism: Impacts and responses of Western Cape province, South Africa5
Why do Japanese people visit hot springs during a pandemic? A psychographic segmentation analysis5
Ski Area Sustainability Across Economic, Social, and Environmental Dimensions: A Systematic Review5
Forecasting daily foot traffic in recreational trails using machine learning5
Selfies versus conservation: The influence of user-generated content in the image of protected natural spaces5
Challenging hegemonic velocipedic modality in the great outdoors: The seemingly inexorable rise of the electric mountain bike5
Research on tourism spatial justice based on residents' perception: A case study on Babao Town of Qilian Mountain National Park (Qinghai area)5
Impacts of wildlife tourism based on felids: A systematic review5
Elevating the park experience: Exploring asymmetric relationships in visitor satisfaction at Canadian national parks5
Fostering equity: How welcomeness, safety, and representation influence visitor coping and intention-to-return to parks and protected areas5
A dual spatial analysis method based on recreation opportunity spectrum and analytical hierarchy process for outdoor recreation site suitability5
Ski touring on groomed slopes: Analyzing opportunities, threats and areas of conflict associated with an emerging outdoor activity5
Wildfire-driven entry closures influence visitor displacement and spending to alternative park entrance corridors and gateway communities around Yosemite National Park5
Tourism-related economic loss and damage from the North Island weather events on New Zealand conservation land and waters5
Understanding Vietnamese youth camping tourism: The roles of motivation, benefit perception, attitude, and place attachment5
Ticks and lyme disease in natural areas: A segmentation analysis of visitor perceptions of risk and preferred communication strategies5
A review of digitalization and sustainability in parks and recreation indicators and thresholds research5
How recreational farm operators use dynamic capabilities to respond to COVID-19 pandemic5
The psychological drivers of pro-environmental behaviors on recreational trails in Canmore, Alberta5
Research note: Understanding the short-term effect of differential park pricing policy4
Deep learning-based video analysis for visitor detection and tracking in protected areas4
From backyards to the backcountry: Exploring outdoor recreation coping strategies and experiences during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand4
Explaining the intention to practice “Leave No Trace” in Hong Kong's country parks: The roles of environmental self-identity, personal moral norms and awareness of consequences4
Editorial Board4
Tourists’ perception of open safari vehicles (OSV) in Kruger National Park. Is it a problem or not?4
Mapping and evaluating the impact of flood hazards on tourism in South African national parks4
Rediscover nearby nature: Exploring the well-being effect and influence factors of camping at different stages of COVID-194
Linking protected areas with health and well-being: Reconstructing the recreational amenity experience model in the Chinese context4
‘Having a grand view of what the day entails’: A qualitative investigation of the non-technical skills utilised by Mountain Guides4
Visitor Experience at Viera y Clavijo Botanic Garden: Satisfaction and Loyalty Antecedents4
“Guiding as a profession and guiding as a way of being do not always align”: Exploring health care access, resilience and subjective well-being of nature-based tourism guides in the western United Sta4
Recreational activity as a pathway to healthy aging: A mixed-methods study on sedentary older adults4
Exploring the impact of park features and visitors’ socioeconomic status on park visitation: A case study of Austin, Texas4
From recreation ecology to a recreation ecosystem: A framework accounting for social-ecological systems4
Predicting physical distancing on recreational trails during COVID-194
Framing memorable hiking tourism experiences through embodiment: The case of Mount Huangshan, China4
Risk, fate, and luck: Understanding adventure intentions under the shadow of death ambiguity4
Recreationists’ preferences for special recreation permit implementation at an off-road vehicle recreation area4
Towards a digital ranger: Using data from outdoor platforms to detect rule violations in protected areas and improve visitor management4
Social carrying capacity and emotion dynamics in urban national parks during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Reprint of: Exploring tourists' motivations, constraints, and negotiations regarding outdoor recreation trips during COVID-19 through a focus group study4
Recreation as a transformative experience: Synthesizing the literature on outdoor recreation and recreation ecosystem services into a systems framework4
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