Urban Evening Recreation Behavior in Yangmingshan
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Huang, Ya-Mei
Abstract
With the development of new lighting equipment, different political situation and lifestyle, time of people’s recreation has been extending. Moreover, with the rising awareness of leisure activity, the evening recreation plays an important role in the modern life, especially in the city. A variety of nightlife has also become part of criteria of the city tourism competitiveness.
Yangmingshan locates nearby the Taipei metropolitan, where people have a abundant of recreation resources and outstanding transport accessibility. For a long time, Yangmingshan has been not only a well-known representative tourist attraction in northern Taiwan but also a popular recreation place for residents in Taipei metropolitan. Taipei basin combining with natural and man-made environmental conditions makes overlooking night view from Yangmingshan become a distinctive nocturnal activity.
This study focuses on analysis of the composition、recreation behavior and the activity spatial distribution characteristics of Yangmingshan evening tourists through questionnaires and field observation. According to the researching results, the characteristics are listed below:
(1) The majority of the visitors are students who are highly educated 、living in the Taipei metropolitan and at the age of 18-29.
(2) Although the total tourist number of men and female are similar, but gender plays a significant role in choosing activity and site. Besides, the behavior of recreation, such as expense amount, arrival and stay time has an effect on choosing various nightlife and place. As for the composition of daytime and nighttime tourists, the nighttime tourists proportion of student was significantly higher than daytime and the age distribution concentrated from 18 to 29 years old (92%). Thus, we can know the average age locates at young generation.
The activities during the daytime include hiking and enjoying the scenery mountain view. On the other hand, tourists can talk a walk, watch the night scene, go for a drive at night time. The distribution of nighttime visitors is distributed like dots ;on the other hand, daytime visitors are scattered into linear or planar shape because of different kinds of activity.
For the motivation of a evening recreation , more choices of leisure activities at night get about 94% recognition rate, followed by the environmental characteristics such as cool climate and pleasant night''s special atmosphere which gets 80 % . To avoid the crowds, heavy traffic and time availability has 60%. Only 19% agree with acquiring knowledge of nightlife. The statistics displays that environmental characteristics is the main attraction of evening recreation in Yangmingshan.
The experience from visitors for recreation facilities, hot spring resorts and restaurant operating hours and service obtain the recognition of more than 80%. However, more than 50% of the tourists unsatisfied with the lighting, security maintenance, restroom set up and public transportation. This indicates that the evening recreation facilities and services need to be improved
The research outcomes can provide the authority basic information and direction to formulate evening recreation plan and strategies in Yangmingshan.
Subjects
evening recreation
nighttime economic
Yangmingshan
recreation behavior
Taipei
Type
thesis
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