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A23 - Sentiers et Pistes de Plein Air / Outdoor Recreation: Trails and Corridors
Le Sentier maritime du Saint-Laurent, un projet récréotouristique mobilisateur et porteur pour les communautés Pierre Trudel, Fédération québécoise du canot et du kayak (Montréal, Canada)
Le Sentier maritime du Saint-Laurent (SMSL) est un bel exemple de projet récréotouristique dont la communauté s’est appropriée pour favoriser son développement. Ce projet d’envergure provinciale suit un modèle de développement remarquable car il s’appuie sur une forte mobilisation du milieu et vise le développement d’un sentiment d’appartenance et de fierté des communautés. L’appropriation du projet par la communauté La structure du projet et son modèle de prise de décision assurent la prise en charge et la représentativité du milieu. Chacun des tronçons du SMSL, appelés routes bleues, est développé et géré par des comités bénévoles composés d’usagers du Saint-Laurent ou représentant d’entreprises ou d’organismes préoccupés par l’accessibilité et la protection du Saint-Laurent ainsi qu’au développement ordonné et sécuritaire des activités de navigation à bord de petites embarcations. Un comité provincial, regroupant toutes les routes bleues et différents partenaires, et dont la coordination a été confiée à la Fédération québécoise du canot et du kayak, assure le déploiement concerté et uniforme du projet. D’autre part, la formation d’une route bleue se fonde sur la signature de protocoles d’ententes avec les propriétaires riverains qui soutiennent l’initiative en autorisant des droits d’accès à leur terrain pour les usagers du SMSL. Le SMSL est aussi soutenu par une communauté de membres qui adhérent au projet, au concept et à sa philosophie.
Contradictions of the Self: Hiking Experiences on Stewart Island Arianne Carvalhedo Reis, University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand)
Outdoor recreation pursuits historically have been an important part of New Zealanders’ lifestyle. In fact, New Zealand is internationally recognized for its outdoor recreation opportunities and tourism has developed largely based on nature-based recreation consumers. Hiking is one of the main outdoor activities pursued by New Zealanders as well as by tourists who venture into the backcountry. The present study involved a hiking experience in New Zealand’s Stewart Island, a well-known destination for outdoor enthusiasts which hosts the longest hiking track in the country and some of the best preserved fauna and flora in New Zealand. Participant observation and in depth interviews were conducted with hikers on the island, but the author’s experience did also compose an important part of the research. Throughout the study different issues regarding the hiking experience on Stewart Island emerged and some of them will be discussed in this paper. Foremost, the understanding of tourism – and of hiking more specifically – as a social complex practice led to an analysis of the experiencesas an intricate web of performances and narratives that floated between different philosophical foundations. The experiences, including the author’s, were permeated by discourses and practices that were contrasting and contradictory and ‘making sense’ of them was the main challenge of the research. Emerging themes, such as sense of place and belonging, individuality and individualism, ‘naturalness’ and nature commodified, were central to this challenge. Dealing at times with of what McCannel would call the front stage/back stage of tourism and at others with Baudrillard’s hyper-reality showed that performance can contradict philosophical premises at the same time that it influences and is influenced by them.
Commercial Outdoor Recreation in Nova Scotia Andrew Jordan Miller, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada)
Commercial outdoor recreation in Canada is a large component of the country’s tourism industry and of healthy, active, recreation opportunities for Canadians. Outdoor recreation in Nova Scotia has received little attention within the academic community. In particular, not enough is known about outdoor service providers as market research has focused on demand more than supply. More information is needed about what motivates outdoor service providers, their understanding of market and demographic trends, how they forecast potential change, and the process they undergo when developing business strategies. This study explored how outdoor recreation service providers identified and reacted to change during a demographic shift, and specifically the process of determining a business strategy. The sample consisted of a criterion-based selected group of nine (n=9) outdoor service providers from Nova Scotia. The study employed a three stage survey approach based on a combination of the Delphi Method and Nominal Group Technique. Along with the main three stage survey, the study included an interview administered upon the first meeting with participants, and a supplementary survey discussing characteristics of the participant and their business. The results of the study supported the development of a model that assisted in exploring the relationships between the outdoor recreation service provider and their environment, society, other service providers, and their clientele, and the process of developing business strategies. A range of topics pertaining to outdoor recreation delivery were covered including: trend analysis, environmental sustainability, social responsibility, risk management, marketing, business principles, and more. This study has contributed a better understanding of the outdoor service providers’ experience, and can ultimately provide some insight into their decision making, such as what external factors have the greatest influence on their choices, and what intrinsic factors shape the way the external factors are interpreted. While previous research has focused on the public recreation and the demand for recreation opportunity, this study aimed to fill the gap in literature pertaining to the private/ commercial recreation service providers.
A23 - Sentiers et Pistes de Plein Air / Outdoor Recreation: Trails and Corridors
