Your place or mine? Exploring birdwatching tourists' behaviour disturbing birds in a nature reserve.

ABSTRACT: To manage for more sustainable wildlife viewing tourism, a better understanding of tourists' behaviour that might disturb and negatively affect wildlife such as birds is needed. We conducted a qualitative case study of visitors to Hornøya, a protected bird cliff in Northern Norway. Behaviours with the potential to disturb seabirds at the site were explored using the theory of planned behaviour as a guiding framework. In-depth interviews and observations were used to explore why some visitors perform illegal or unwanted, potentially harmful behaviours, and to understand attitudes, social norms, and perceived behaviour control as influencing factors. The tourists visited Hornøya to experience seabirds in their natural surroundings, without causing harm. They were emotionally affected by the

SUBMITTER: Aas O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10088662 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature