| Summary: | 碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 觀光事業學系 === 100 === In recent years, eco-tourism is a prevalent and popular tourism concept in Taiwan. There is more and more phenomenon of high tourist use density appearing in many wetlands recreation site. Overloading tourist use not only damages the environmental resources, but also increases tourists’perception of crowding and also negatively affects their emotional experiences; it would further reduce tourists’ psychological outcomes from recreational activities (Gramann, 1982).
The purpose of this study is to explore participants’ social capacity, emotional experience and physiological responses in different wetland trail, and further to evaluate the maximum social capacity according to what respondents have been awared.
This study adopted the physiological biofeedback technique to record off-site participants’ physiological responses by using visual simulated images with different-level crowds. The psychophysiological data from 84 voluntary respondents were collected while they were watching the simulation photographas and their participants’ psychological perception were collected by interviewing.
Major findings according to this process are summarized as followed:
1.The subjects’ crowding perception, preference and acceptability vary with different type trails and the number of users. The more obviously crowding were perceived by subjects, the more relativly declined the acceptability and preferences were evaluated.
2.The subjects’ pleasure, arousal and dominance vary with different type trails and the number of users. Subjects felt a high degree of pleasure and dominance in the beach trail. Howver, in terms of the wood trail, subjects expressed a high degree of arousal when the number of users is large.
3.In terms of four type physiological responses, brain-wave, heart rate and facial muscle tense from subjects, there were no significantly affects according ot the different type of wetland tail and the number of users.
4.By combing the three indications of social capacity, emotion experience and physiological responses, the “hypothetical social norm curve” were drawed to provided the more flexible of social carrying capacity range.
According to these findings, the research was suggested managers to provide diverse recreational opportunities, to avoid overly destruction of wetlands resources. And to establish the indicators of social psychological carrying capacity, in order to deal with a variety of management strategies.
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