The Study of Tourists' Leisure Experience and Environmental Attitude in the Weiwuying Metropolitan Park

• Main Authors: Lan, Liching, 藍麗卿
• Other Authors: Li, Shenghsiung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15112954639244757449

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 生態休閒教育教學碩士學位學程 === 101 === Weiwuying is a case that it is successful transition from a military training site to a metropolitan park. Natural, ecological space atmosphere and novel, innovative environmental planning make the leisure at parks meet the effect of both entertaining and educational; the purpose of this research is to investigate the current circumstance and the relationship of the tourists' leisure experience and environmental attitude, to analyze the impact of the tourists’ basic properties (socioeconomic background and experience in conservation) in their leisure experience and environmental attitude of the Metropolitan Park, and to investigate the relation between leisure experience and environmental attitude. I use the questionnaires of tourists’ leisure experience and environmental attitude to survey, and use the tourists in the Weiwuying metropolitan park as study sample rather than collect non-random purposive sampling in this research, and the visitors who answer the questionnaires must be at least 18 years old as well as doing the questionnaires on the spot to improve the efficiency and reliability. A total of 450 questionnaires were sent and 402 valid questionnaires received back, and the effective response rate is 89.3%. The acquired data were processed by SPSS 19.0 for Windows to engage in item analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, frequency distribution, average, standard deviation, percentage, one-way ANOVA, independent-sample t-test and Pearson product-moment correlation. This research and the results are summarized as follows: 1. Women are 15% more than men among visitors in metropolitan park. Many of the tourists were over 30 to 49 of age, whose education basically were college degrees, and most of their occupation were industry, commerce and service. Besides, more than 60 percent of the married live near the park. 2. The average points per question of tourists’ leisure experience of metropolitan park is 3.96 which is close to “agree”, that indicates that the tourists are in the high level of leisure experience; the average points per question of their attitude towards environment in metropolitan park is 4.25 and it is between “agree” to “highly agree” which indicate that the tourists’ attitude towards environment is highly positive. 3. The independent variables which affect tourists’ leisure experience are “age”, “educational level”, “experience in joining eco-related organizations ”, “experience in participating in environmental activities”, “experience in reading articles about eco-environment ”. 4. The independent variables which affect tourists’ environmental attitude of are “age”, “experience in joining eco-related organizations”, ” experience in participating in environmental activities”, “experience in participating in environmental activities”. 5. There is a positive correlation among respondents’ leisure experience of metropolitan park and environmental attitude. Based on the conclusions above, it is suggested that government, managers and operators and people who might further research on this issue can make use of this study as reference in the future. Key words: metropolitan park, leisure experience, environmental attitude