The socioecological drivers of tourist decisions and their influence on wildlife tourism sustainability

在所有生态区，越来越多的人利用自然进行娱乐和旅游。这些活动现在威胁到5930个物种的保护，海洋沿海地区受到的影响尤其严重(Lusseau&Mancini，2018年)。我们的管理工作主要集中在对经营者和旅游基础设施的监管上，然而，一旦一个目的地吸引了很多人，就很难维持它的可持续性。该项目将评估游客如何形成他们对野生动物旅游目的地的偏好，并确定这些偏好如何在社交网络上传播。该项目将从生态学的角度来了解影响游客态度和偏好的社会和环境因素。这将通过使用我们开发的方法的社交媒体采样以及参与观察性和操纵性工作的组合来实现，以了解生物多样性如何与旅游景点相结合(对其产生影响)。该项目将建立在当地规模的先前工作的基础上(在苏格兰-Mancini等人，2018年，Pirotta等人)。2015年)和全球规模(2018年Lusseau&Mancini)提供了独特的机会来扩展现有的基于社会生态主体的野生动物旅游模式，这些模式直接应用于创新野生动物旅游的新治理方法并影响政策。

An ever-increasing number of people use nature for recreation and tourism across all ecoregions. Those activities now threaten the conservation of 5930 species and marine coastal regions are particularly affected (Lusseau & Mancini 2018). We have focussed much of our management efforts on regulating operators and tourism infrastructure, yet very little can be achieved to maintain the sustainability of a destination once many people are attracted to it. This project will assess how tourists develop their preferences for wildlife tourism destinations and determine how those propagate on social networks. This project will take an ecological approach to understand the social and environmental factors shaping tourist attitudes and preferences. This will be achieved through a combination of social media sampling using approaches we have developed as well as engage in observational and manipulative work to understand how biodiversity couples with tourism attraction (which impacts it).The project will build on previous work at a local scale (in Scotland - Mancini et al 2018, Pirotta et al. 2015) and global scale (Lusseau & Mancini 2018) offering the unique opportunities to expand existing socioecological agent-based models of wildlife tourism that are directly applied to innovate new governance approaches to wildlife tourism and influences policy.