Outdoor Recreation: Is It A Multi-Phase Experience?
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Abstract
A recreational experience has been defined by Clawson (1963) and Clawson and Knetsch (1966) as a multiphase experience, consisting of five major phases: anticipation, travel-to, onsite, travel-back, and recollection. It is commonly supposed that a variety of benefits for people result from participation in the various phases of the total recreational experience. While this concept has intuitive meaning and has been widely accepted in outdoor recreation, direct empirical evidence supporting the theory is lacking. In an effort to generate empirical evidence concerning the total recreational experience, moods of visitors to a bog environment were measured during all five phases of the engagement. Results of the study support the original concept of outdoor recreation as a multiphase experience.