A Study on Visitors’ Recreational Behavior Norms and Their Influential Factors at Kaomei Wetland Taichung County, Taiwan

• Main Authors: CHIN-FENG CHANG, 張金鳳
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44511563156501089310

碩士 === 逢甲大學 === 土地管理所 === 93 === Abstract Visitors’ recreational behavior norms play a very important role in the process when they participate in leisure and recreation activities because these norms involve in the environment quality maintenance. In the leisure and recreation academic fields, studies on the recreation behaviors are tremendous but on the topic of recreational behavior norms is very rare. The subject of this study is visitors’ perceptions at Kaomei Wetland in Taichung County. We investigated visitors’ current situation of leisure and recreation activities on site, and then surveyed visitors with questionnaire to collect data for the analysis of the relationships between recreational behavior norms and their influential factors. According to the study results, it has shown that visitors, who participated in leisure and recreation activities, expressed more than 80% in agreement to the following behavior limits：banning visitors to enter Guan grass (Bolboschoenus planiculmis as an endangered species) area、bring own trash home、do not harm the wetland ecology 、fine the one who harms the ecology、should coordinate the management regulations with every effort、should respect the local residents’ idea and custom、willing to learn the knowledge of preservation and support it、only watch but not catch fish and crabs、should respect life、should persuade and stop inappropriate behaviors 、increase patrol and management、sacrificing one’s inconvenience for preservation、willing to assist maintaining the ecology and obeying the commands of managers. The social economic variables such as age and income seemed not significantly to be related to the agreement of recreation behavior norms. Besides, the frequency of repeat visits、traveling schedule and residential areas also have no significant affections on the behavior norms. In other words, visitors at Kaomei Wetland shared high agreement on the behavior norms. According to the study findings, this research has also induced the appropriate recreation behavior norms at Kaomei Wetland to be shown as followings for government’s references： 1. Should limit visitor amount and ban the visitors to enter the endangered species Guan grass （Bolboschoenus planiculmis）area. 2. Trash which visitors made has to be handled properly at Kaomei Wetland. 3. Should control the harmful behavior on ecology and impose fine on the one who harms the ecology of Kaomei Wetland. 4. Should coordinate the management regulations with every effort and to charge the maintenance fees. 5. Should respect the animals’ life and should only watch rather than catch the fish and crabs on the wetland. 6. Should obey the commands of superintendents and advise people away from inappropriate behaviors.