During the summer periods 1975 and 1976 the number of tourists to the peninsular Skallingen on the west coast of Jutland was counted automatically and their nationalities stated by observation. An enlargement of the official parking places is discussed in order to avoid further damages on dunes and ...

The report investigates tourism in Denmark, a country of only 5.1 million people but with almost as many overseas visitors in 1982. Most of the 4.5 million tourists came from Europe. Copenhagen is popular and has a wide range of hotels, conference facilities, tourist attractions and night life....

The aim of the study was to compare different methods for estimating urban forest recreation, especially the number of visits in four recreational forest areas and the frequency of visits among visitors. The methods considered were: field observation, field interview and mailed questionnaire. The...

The perceptions and preferences of foreign summer tourists in Finland are examined. The constructs of cognitive structure were integrated with a multidimensional approach and the concept of positioning in order to establish a conceptual framework. These concepts were applied to a study of the...

Questionnaires were sent to population samples in Helsinki, Jyväskylä and Sodankylä. These contained questions on recreational use of the forest, including hunting, feelings about woodlands, whether woodlands should be managed or left undisturbed, and on which tree species were preferred. Finnish...

The results presented in this article are based on field studies in the Sarek National Park in Swedish Lapland. The number of hikers in the national park was very low for a long time. In the early 1970s visitor pressure increased dramatically. In Rapadalen, which has the largest number of hikers,...

This monograph utilizes data from the 1985 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA '85) to explore the audience composition of US art museums and galleries. Part 1 focuses on: (1) demographic variables affecting US adult attendance rates; (2) a comparison of the SPPA '85 research data and...

The Swedish Arts Council has published a report on theatre and dance which covers the period 1975/76-1987/88. The report concludes that total attendance figures have been decreasing annually since the mid-1970s, but that 1987/88 may have been a turning point in this negative development. Altogether ...

The article reports on the results of a study carried out to determine consumer demand and preferences for different types of rides in leisure and theme parks. The Liseberg Park in Goeteborg, Sweden was used as the basis for the study. The objective was to investigate the relationship between...

Colour, and black and white slides of various forest scenes were shown to landscape managers, politicians and students of landscape management during the period 1979-89 (at conferences, annual meetings, courses etc.) and they were asked to rank the scenes according to what they thought visitors...