Measuring trail users’ perception of crowding in a peri-urban nature park: A best-worst scaling experiment

This paper evaluates the perception of crowding, its determinants and relationship with trail users’ experience in a peri-urban nature park. Existing crowding surveys rely heavily on a single-item 9-point crowding scale which was originally developed for backcountry areas. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to test the validity and reliability of this measure in detecting crowding issues and formulating visitor capacity limits. Low validity and reliability raised concerns about the applicability of this scale in similar frontcountry areas. Inability of this simple crowding measure to detect a visitor threshold brings to the fore its another important limitation – ignorance of the complexity of crowding phenomenon. The perception of crowding varies with various social, psychological and situational factors, and a best-worst scaling (BWS) experiment was designed to simultaneously evaluate different aspects of crowding in the Medvednica Nature Park, a peri-urban nature park near Zagreb, Croatia. The findings of BWS experiment revealed that occupancy of mountain huts, number of other hikers on the trail and amount of litter along the trail on average contributed most to the trail users’ sense of crowding. A latent class analysis identified a large heterogeneity in the perception of crowding; while one group of trail users (63%) was more disturbed by the direct social impacts, the others (37%) were more disturbed by the secondary impacts of other visitors, especially by the negative externalities from road traffic in the park. Older visitors had a greater tendency to primarily associate crowding with the environmental conditions. A higher impact of trail use level in the perception of crowding, younger age and more frequent use were associated with a more negative evaluation of crowding. The park management should closely monitor road traffic in the park and visitor activity on highly used trails, especially on those popular among younger trail users.     

论县级博物馆的发展现状及对策

随着物质生活水平的不断提高，人们对精神层面的追求也日益增加，蕴含浓厚历史、艺术色彩的博物馆事业的发展也就越来越受到人们的关注。然而，在经济社会迅猛发展的进程中，县级博物馆事业的发展在“免费开放”的机遇和挑战下，也日益凸显出其不适应性，不能跟上时代发展的步伐。如何丰富和提升县级博物馆的公共文化服务功能，发展壮大县级博物馆成为新一代文博人思考的问题？文章阐述了县级博物馆发展中的问题，并就下一步的发展对策进行了详细解读。     

夏季农家乐经营问题及对策

夏季气候炎热,城市周边的农家乐就遇到了很棘手的问题,游客人数锐减,生意惨淡,应该想办法解决这样的季节性经营问题,使农家乐走出夏季的经营困难.     

山西省地质博物馆园林景观设计

当前博物馆外部空间景观设计越来越被重视,功能也越来越多样化。阐述山西省地质博物馆的园林景观设计,该设计始终围绕"地质传说"这一设计主题,运用现代材料和艺术手法通过景观构造再现,使人们从中感知地质文化,并形成集休闲、娱乐、教育等功能为一体的城市公共绿地。希望为国内博物馆的园林景观设计提供借鉴。     

“水产虚拟标本馆”的设计与开发

结合 Flash MX 2004和 MS Access 2000,运用 ActionScript 脚本语句和 ASP 技术实现动态网页中 Flash 对数据库的调用;通过脚本编程模拟了实地参观标本馆的过程,实现了现实场景和单个标本体360°旋转,成功设计并开发了“水产虚拟标本馆”。随着“数字地球”概念的推广,“水产虚拟标本馆”必将成为水产实物标本馆的重要分支。     

Observance–Influence Analysis: A Case Study in a Forest Recreation Area

Importance–performance (I-P) analysis is a common evaluative measure in forest recreation management. However, concerns with I-P analysis have been raised. In this study, the observance–influence (O-I) analysis technique modified from I-P analysis was adapted for analysing the observance of various use and resource impacts by on-site visitors, and the influence that these impact conditions have on forest recreation area visitor experiences. During the summer and autumn of 2000, 476 Worak-san Forest National Park visitors in Korea were surveyed. The O-I grid generated from the survey data indicated that managers are doing a good job. The grid revealed most impacts clustering in the low priority concern and no concern quadrants. Impacts shown to be of most concern related to utility poles and power lines, poor maintenance of buildings, dead and dying trees, and discourteous behaviour. The O-I grid analysis model has considerable utility for park managers in analysing visitors’ perceptions of park impacts.     

国家植物博物馆旅游发展战略研究与初步构想

在研究博物馆旅游相关内涵的基础上,系统地阐述了博物馆和旅游的关系,认为博物馆旅游是未来的发展趋势。文中依托国家植物博物馆建设的基本情况,对国家植物博物馆发展旅游具备的政策机遇、游客基数、区位、行业地位、资源、特色等方面的优势及国内没有成熟的经验和成功的案例可借鉴、藏品艺术价值不高等劣势进行分析。提出建立合理的运维机制,处理好馆、库、园一体统筹的关系;按照国家5A级旅游景区标准,高起点、高规格建设;以人为本,强化深度体验;重视人才、科普和营销;与茨坝生物科技特色小镇融合发展,打造云南省“健康生活目的地”示范园区;整合资源,建立旅联体,打造科普文旅融合产业走廊等国家植物博物馆旅游发展的策略及建议。     

未成年人走进博物馆的影响因素调查与分析——以“忆空间”的调查为例

博物馆的实物和环境对未成年人教育来说具有得天独厚的优势,如何利用博物馆培养未成年人的文化素养和探索精神是非常重要的课题。调查发现影响未成年人走进博物馆的主要因素包括：学校对博物馆参观的要求、孩子自身的兴趣、家庭的影响、社会文化机构的影响以及博物馆自身建设水平等五个方面。针对这些影响因素具体提出从这五个方面形成教育合力,提出未成年人走进博物馆的相关路径,提升博物馆未成年人的教育功能。     

数字化农村博物馆的规划与建设初探

阐述了建设“中国农村博物馆”的意义,介绍了华中师范大学中国农村问题研究中心“农具陈列室”的建设现状,并对即将实施建设的“数字化农村博物馆”提出了构想和规划。     

海南大学图书馆筹建海南历史文化博物馆刍议

海南大学图书馆以海南历史文化研究基地为依托,于2008年初开始筹建海南历史文化博物馆,与建设研究型图书馆的目标相一致,博物馆也将建成一座附属于图书馆的小型研究型博物馆,这是近年来海南大学图书馆加强地方文献建设的一个重大举措.