Cultural factors of visitors' understanding of U.S. National Park Service natural resource messages
Hilton SC. 2002. Cultural factors of visitors' understanding of U.S. National Park Service natural resource messages. Ohio State University, UMI
This study concentrates on understanding how messages pertaining to natural resources concepts and associated management decisions are communicated to and received by culturally-diverse audiences. Failure to consider cultural-diversity has the potential to interfere with the National Park Service's success at communicating its mission and management decisions. The study took place in three US national parks: Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim), Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Visitors completed an anonymous questionnaire. Certain aspects of culture, religion/spirituality seem to have a greater role in how visitors identify themselves, as opposed to ethnicity/cultural heritage.
- Type
- Academic
- Authors
- Hilton, Sunita
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- Ohio State University, UMI
- Units
- HAVO
- Keywords
- cultural diversity, Demography, Dissertation, Grand Canyon National Park (North Rim), Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (HAVO), natural resource use, Recreation/Aesthetics, Visitor Impacts