Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human-nature relations in a remote nature-based tourism destination

ABSTRACT: Tourism and nature-based recreation has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Travel restrictions caused sharp declines in visitation numbers, particularly in remote areas, such as northern Norway. In addition, the pandemic may have altered human-nature relationships by changing visitor behaviour and preferences. We studied visitor numbers and behaviour in northern Norway, based on user-generated data, in the form of photographic material that was uploaded to the popular online platform Flickr. A total of 195.200 photographs, taken by 5.247 photographers were subjected to Google’s “Cloud Vision” automatic content analysis algorithm. The resulting collection of labels that were assigned to each photograph was analysed in structural topic models, using photography date (relative

SUBMITTER: Mul E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9521831 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature