Monitoring the visitor experience at Buck Island Reef National Monument

Alan R. Graefe; Roger L. Moore

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Monitoring the visitor experience at Buck Island Reef National Monument

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Alan R. Graefe, Roger L. Moore

Year:

1992

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. 1992. Proceedings of the 1991 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1991 April 7-9; Saratoga Springs, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-160. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 55-58.

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Abstract

This paper examines relationships between visitor density levels and perceptions of crowding at a Caribbean coral reef. Reef visitors were more likely to report that the quality of their experience was enhanced, rather than reduced, by their encounters with other visitors. Perceived crowding was related to visitors' previous experience and the location of encounters with other visitors as well as various density-related measures.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 1991 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

In: Vander Stoep, Gail A., ed. 1992. Proceedings of the 1991 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 1991 April 7-9; Saratoga Springs, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-160. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. p.55-58.