Segmenting participants on nonconsumptive wildlife-related recreation: a comparison of casual wildlife watchers and serious birders
| dc.creator | Cole, James Stuart | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1998 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references: p.65-69. | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to explore the participation characteristics across two different segments of the population that participate in nonconsumptive wildlife-related recreation. The two segments included casual wildlife watchers and serious birders. For this study, casual wildlife watchers were represented by holders of Texas Conservation Passports and serious birders were represented by member of the American Birding Association. These two subgroups were surveyed using a mail-back questionnaire during the summer of 1996. Initial analysis of the data showed that there were significant differences between these two subgroups with regard to frequency of participation, skill level, and total months of participation. This confirmed the recreation specialization framework, which was used as the conceptual foundation for the study. Further analysis revealed that there were many significant differences in participation characteristics between casual wildlife watchers and serious birders. Specifically, there were differences in socio-demographic characteristics, expenditure patterns, types of information sources used, and desired setting preferences. The implications of this study is that managers and planners will be able to more effectively target casual wildlife watchers and/or serious birders with the appropriate promotional strategy and provide the desired products and services. | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1998-THESIS-C65 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | recreation, parks and tourism sciences. | en |
| dc.subject | Major recreation, parks and tourism sciences. | en |
| dc.title | Segmenting participants on nonconsumptive wildlife-related recreation: a comparison of casual wildlife watchers and serious birders | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | recreation parks and tourism sciences | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |