Sixth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies

Abstract

The reemergence of travel after COVID-19 represents a unique opportunity for natural protected areas (PAs) and nature-based tourism destinations. If PAs can facilitate positive, direct, personal sensory experiences with natural settings closer to home, they may help reverse the cycle of disconnection and apathy that has resulted from greater urbanization and increasing disconnections between people and nature. This paper draws on the premise that what people experience in one context, they bring into other contexts, expanding current understanding of natural PA soundscape experiences through exploration of the acoustic environments experienced by national tourists from Chile in their home and work contexts. In addition to providing valuable insight for PA managers and post COVID-19 tourism development, this work contributes new perspectives towards categorization and coding taxonomies recommended within the recent ISO 12913-2 standard for soundscape data collection and reporting.

Presenters

Trace Gale
Primary Investigator & Coordinator, Human-Nature Interactions Group, Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chile

Andrés Adiego
Research Assistant, Human-environment Interactions, Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, CIEP, Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chile

Andrea Ednie
Faculty Member, Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, United States

Karen Beeftink
University of Maine