J Packer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 8979 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Packer |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Packer |
| FIRMA | PACKER J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2250-1175 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 613 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Understanding the Range and Impact of Visitor Experiences at Science Museums
While the core mission of science museums is to provide engaging learning experiences that promote scientific literacy among the visiting public, attention has recently been focused on the wide range of visitor experiences that surround and support visitor learning. This paper provides a visitor perspective on the experiences elicited by science museums, and explores the links between visitor experiences, satisfaction, learning and other well‐bei…
Experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit
We investigate the experiential factors predicting the short-term impact of a museum visit. Two recently developed frameworks were used: the Dimensions of Visitor Experience (DoVE) framework by Packer et al. (Citation2018) and the experience impact framework by Duerden et al. (Citation2018). We employ a survey method, collecting data from 523 respondents over a year. The results of a SEM analysis reveal that reflection and joy significantly enhan…
Issues in Measuring Visitor Experiences
Does Values-Based Interpretation Make a Difference? Testing Impacts on Visitors’ Environmental Learning and Reported Adoption of Environmentally Responsible Behaviors
This experimental field study tests the impact of values-based interpretive materials on zoo/aquarium visitors’ engagement, learning and self-reported adoption of environmentally responsible behaviors after their visit. Participants were randomly assigned to a control group (who experienced a normal visit) or a treatment group (who received additional values-based interpretive materials). A total of 719 participants in North America and 455 in Au…
Differences between Zoo/Aquarium Staff and Visitors’ Values, Beliefs, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors
The value priorities, pro-environmental beliefs and pro-environmental behaviors of zoo/aquarium staff, volunteers, visitors and non-visitors are examined to test whether they differ in ways that may impact zoos’ effectiveness in communicating environmental messages. Online surveys were completed by 607 staff (including 157 educators), 339 volunteers, 1444 frequent visitors, 2321 occasional visitors and 350 non-visitors across 12 sites in North Am…
Facilitating zoo/aquarium visitors' adoption of environmentally sustainable behaviour
National identities and war heritage
This paper examines the convergence of national identities and war heritage, among first-, second- and third-plus-generation Australians. In Australia, interpretation of a First World War event, the Anzac story, is promoted as war heritage central to national identity. What meaning might this discourse have in today’s multicultural Australia? Qualitative interviews were conducted with 93 adult visitors to the Australian War Memorial, 37 of whom h…
Taking a break
This paper applies Attention Restoration Theory to explore the restorative benefits of short breaks and vacations among Australian university staff (N = 156). Three groups (Vacation, Short Break and No Break) were compared using both objective (physiological and cognitive) and subjective (self-report) measures. Cognitive and self-report measures demonstrated that taking a break increases the ability to focus attention and improves restorative wel…
The role of place attachment and festival attachment in influencing attendees’ environmentally responsible behaviours at music festivals
This study investigates attendees’ attachment to the place where a festival is held and their attachment to the festival itself as predictors of environmentally responsible behaviours (ERBs) at the festival. Pre- and post-visit surveys were conducted with 405 participants. The pre-visit survey, completed before attendance at a music festival, measured visitors’ place attachment and festival attachment, while the post-visit survey, measured on-sit…
Interpreting war heritage
Spiritual retreats as a restorative destination
Nested assemblages
This article examines relations between Anzac heritage and Australian national identity, among migrant visitors to the Australian War Memorial (AWM). What meaning could a story derived from Australian involvement in the First World War have to migrants who moved to Australia after the Second World War? Participants in qualitative interviews were eleven first-generation Australians, whose countries of birth were England, Greece, Ireland, New Zeala…
Applying Attention Restoration Theory to Understand and Address Clergy’s Need to Restore Cognitive Capacity
Exploring the Factors That Influence Zoo Visitors’ Perceptions of the Well-Being of Gorillas
Modern zoos face increasing pressures to maintain and demonstrate both the physical and psychological well-being of animals in their care. However, the informal judgments that zoo visitors make about animal well-being may be based on criteria that are inappropriate or misleading. In this research, two self-administered questionnaires were used to explore the indicators that zoo visitors use, consciously or unconsciously, to judge the well-being o…
Post-Visit Reinforcement of Zoo Conservation Messages
Wildlife tourism attractions such as zoos are uniquely placed to make an impact on people’s everyday environmentally responsible behaviors. However, research suggests that visitors who leave such sites with a heightened awareness and good intentions rarely translate their intentions into post-visit environmental actions. This article reports on the development of a website-based action resource designed to reinforce, complement, and extend zoos’ …
Developing an Instrument to Capture Multifaceted Visitor Experiences
Understanding visitor experiences is an important focus for visitor research in attractions such as museums, zoos, and heritage sites because the visitor experience is the core product of the interaction between the visitor and the activities, events, and environments they encounter. This article describes the development of an instrument designed to capture multiple facets of the visitor experience using a simple and unobtrusive adjective checkl…
Visitors' values and environmental learning outcomes at wildlife attractions
Exploring the restorative benefits of spiritual retreats
Despite being one of the oldest forms of tourism, religious tourism is a growing and increasingly diverse sector. Spiritual retreat tourism is one type of religious tourism that has been found to have a range of benefits for participants, particularly in relation to restorative benefits such as rest and recovery of cognitive capacity. This mixed-methods study applies Attention Restoration Theory to explore the ways in which participants of spirit…
Cruise destination attributes
Cruise tourism is an increasingly popular and profitable industry where cruise lines have positioned the cruise ship as the focal point of a vacation. This has led to speculation regarding the relative importance of the ship and the ports of call as the primary destination of cruise tourism. This issue has implications for the decision-making process of cruise travellers, as well as cruise marketing, itinerary planning, shore excursions and ship …
Penguin Promises
This study investigates the impact of an innovative conservation action campaign called Penguin Promises implemented at uShaka Sea World in Durban, South Africa. Communication tools included interpretive signage, exhibits with and without animals, presentations, and personal interactions, along with a specially designed postcard, on which visitors could write a promise (pledge) to make a change in their daily lives to become more environmentally …
Serious leisure among older gardeners in Australia
Activities such as gardening are fast becoming acknowledged as a much desired health management strategy in later life. However, few studies have examined gardening as a serious leisure pursuit. The aim of this study was to apply the concept of serious leisure to the context of leisure gardening by older adults in Australia. Casual, participant and devotee gardeners were compared with respect to the relative importance of the characteristics of s…
Conceptualizing the Visitor Experience
Zoo Visitors' Affective Responses to Observing Animal Behaviors
The opportunity to observe or interact with animals in a zoo is often vital in influencing visitors' positive feelings towards animals and ultimately their conservation behavior. This study explores the relationship between observed animal behavior and zoo visitors' responses. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 717 visitors across four exhibits (giraffe, lion, cheetah, and red panda) at three zoos (Brookfield Zoo, San Diego Zoo Sa…
Visitors' Perceptions of the Conservation Education Role of Zoos and Aquariums
Many zoos and aquariums consider themselves to be conservation organizations with a mission to educate and promote visitors' adoption of environmentally sustainable behavior. This article investigates the extent to which visitors share this view and discusses the implications of the findings for the provision of on-site and post-visit conservation education. A survey of 1,546 visitors to 13 zoos and aquariums found that although visitors gave hig…
Animal welfare values and tourist behaviour
Visitors' memories of wildlife tourism
Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability
Conservation learning in wildlife tourism settings
Zoos and aquariums have shifted their focus over recent years, taking a much more active role in wildlife conservation and in promoting conservation learning among their visitors. Research in these settings provides a valuable foundation for the emerging field of non‐captive wildlife tourism. In particular, valuable lessons regarding the potential impact of wildlife encounters on visitors’ conservation attitudes and behaviour can be drawn from re…
Promoting environmentally sustainable attitudes and behaviour through free‐choice learning experiences
Environmental education, both in and outside of the classroom, aims to facilitate adoption of sustainable practice by both school students and the general public. This paper explores the role of free‐choice learning experiences in this regard. An overview of theoretical approaches underpinning free‐choice learning research is provided, examples are presented of the ways in which informal educational settings can promote environmentally sustainabl…
Tourists' support for conservation messages and sustainable management practices in wildlife tourism experiences
Minds On The Move
Travel and Learning
Interpreting war heritage
School Environmental Education Programme Impacts upon Student and Family Learning
This article uses a case study approach to explore the impact of two school environmental education programmes, from the perspective of participating students, their teachers and their parents. A total of 152 students (79 from primary schools and 73 from a secondary school), 3 teachers and 62 parents contributed their perceptions regarding the impact of the programmes. Each programme is described in detail and students' responses compared across …
Mobility and Locative Media
Mobility and Locative MediaMobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic, and political practices.Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication and locative media.Mobi…
Serious leisure among older gardeners in Australia
Activities such as gardening are fast becoming acknowledged as a much desired health management strategy in later life. However, few studies have examined gardening as a serious leisure pursuit. The aim of this study was to apply the concept of serious leisure to the context of leisure gardening by older adults in Australia. Casual, participant and devotee gardeners were compared with respect to the relative importance of the characteristics of s…
Using tourism free‐choice learning experiences to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour
This paper argues the need for the providers of ecotourism and other free‐choice environmental learning experiences to promote the adoption of environmentally sustainable actions beyond their own sites, when visitors return to their home environments. Previous research indicates that although visitors often leave such experiences with a heightened awareness of conservation issues and intentions to adopt environmentally responsible behaviours, onl…
Spiritual retreats as a restorative destination
Introducing a fifth pedagogy
Educators have identified four categories of ‘productive pedagogies’ that are considered to lead to authentic student engagement and learning in the classroom. This study was designed to explore and extend these pedagogies in the context of learning in natural environments, in particular, through the programmes of Queensland environmental education centres. In‐depth interview and observation data were collected from students, classroom teachers a…
Environmental awareness, interests and motives of botanic gardens visitors
Is Educational Leisure A Contradiction in Terms? Exploring the Synergy of Education and Entertainment
Theoretical analysis highlights the complexity of the relationship between education and entertainment in educational leisure settings and indicates the need for research in this area. This paper contributes to developing an understanding of the connections between, and compatibility of, education and entertainment, from the perspective of visitors to educational leisure settings. Questionnaire data were collected from 499 visitors to six educati…
Chinese and Australian tourists' attitudes to nature, animals and environmental issues
Trends in tourism research
Visitors' values and environmental learning outcomes at wildlife attractions
Taking a break
This paper applies Attention Restoration Theory to explore the restorative benefits of short breaks and vacations among Australian university staff (N = 156). Three groups (Vacation, Short Break and No Break) were compared using both objective (physiological and cognitive) and subjective (self-report) measures. Cognitive and self-report measures demonstrated that taking a break increases the ability to focus attention and improves restorative wel…
Using post‐visit action resources to support family conservation learning following a wildlife tourism experience
Wildlife tourism experiences are often promoted for their ability to enhance visitors’ conservation knowledge, attitudes and behaviour; yet, studies exploring the long‐term influence of such experiences are rare. This research explores the impact of a wildlife tourism experience and post‐visit support on families’ adoption of conservation practices following their visit. In Stage 1, barriers and benefits associated with six conservation practices…
Comparing captive and non-captive wildlife tourism
Facilitating zoo/aquarium visitors' adoption of environmentally sustainable behaviour
Animal welfare values and tourist behaviour
Where Does Food Fit in Tourism
This Department is devoted to research reports, notes, conference résumé and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Professor David A. Tennell, Brode University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail: [email protected]
Researching university teaching in Australia
University teaching is a diverse enterprise which encompasses a range of disciplines, curricula, teaching methods, learning tasks and learning approaches. Within this diversity, common themes and issues which reflect academics' understanding of effective teaching may be discerned. Drawing on written data collected from 708 practising teachers who were nominated by their Heads or Deans as exhibiting exemplary teaching practice, and from interviews…
Beyond Student Evaluation of Teaching
Student evaluation of teaching is a commonly accepted means of obtaining feedback on the quality of university teaching. However, its usefulness in contributing to improved teaching performance is dependent on the extent to which staff respond to and apply the information obtained in this way. This paper reports the results of a project designed to extend the application of student evaluations by using them as the basis for staff development. Sur…
Program Effectiveness in Facilitating Intergenerational Influence in Environmental Education
Educators have invested considerable effort in developing environmental education programs that address students' knowledge, attitudes, and action competence regarding environmental issues. The authors explore the effectiveness of such programs in terms of both student learning outcomes and the intergenerational influence that results when students discuss their learning experiences with their parents and other community members. Six environmenta…
School Environmental Education Programme Impacts upon Student and Family Learning
This article uses a case study approach to explore the impact of two school environmental education programmes, from the perspective of participating students, their teachers and their parents. A total of 152 students (79 from primary schools and 73 from a secondary school), 3 teachers and 62 parents contributed their perceptions regarding the impact of the programmes. Each programme is described in detail and students' responses compared across …
Motivational Factors and the Visitor Experience
Museums, art galleries, botanical gardens, national parks, science centers, zoos, aquaria and historic sites are important public learning institutions. The free‐choice learning offered in these settings is closely linked to visitors' intrinsic motivation, making it important to understand the motivational factors that impact on visitors' experiences. This paper presents data from a questionnaire administered to visitors at three sites: a museum,…
Is Educational Leisure A Contradiction in Terms? Exploring the Synergy of Education and Entertainment
Theoretical analysis highlights the complexity of the relationship between education and entertainment in educational leisure settings and indicates the need for research in this area. This paper contributes to developing an understanding of the connections between, and compatibility of, education and entertainment, from the perspective of visitors to educational leisure settings. Questionnaire data were collected from 499 visitors to six educati…
Promoting environmentally sustainable attitudes and behaviour through free‐choice learning experiences
Environmental education, both in and outside of the classroom, aims to facilitate adoption of sustainable practice by both school students and the general public. This paper explores the role of free‐choice learning experiences in this regard. An overview of theoretical approaches underpinning free‐choice learning research is provided, examples are presented of the ways in which informal educational settings can promote environmentally sustainabl…
Conservation learning in wildlife tourism settings
Zoos and aquariums have shifted their focus over recent years, taking a much more active role in wildlife conservation and in promoting conservation learning among their visitors. Research in these settings provides a valuable foundation for the emerging field of non‐captive wildlife tourism. In particular, valuable lessons regarding the potential impact of wildlife encounters on visitors’ conservation attitudes and behaviour can be drawn from re…
Environmental awareness, interests and motives of botanic gardens visitors
Introducing a fifth pedagogy
Educators have identified four categories of ‘productive pedagogies’ that are considered to lead to authentic student engagement and learning in the classroom. This study was designed to explore and extend these pedagogies in the context of learning in natural environments, in particular, through the programmes of Queensland environmental education centres. In‐depth interview and observation data were collected from students, classroom teachers a…
Tourists' support for conservation messages and sustainable management practices in wildlife tourism experiences
Trends in tourism research
Identifying the Satisfactions Derived from Leisure Gardening by Older Adults
Gardening is a popular leisure activity among older adults in most Western countries. However, few systematic academic studies have focused on the benefits of gardening engaged in by this cohort. The purpose of this study was to identify the contribution of gardening to the leisure and life satisfaction of older adults. Self‐administered questionnaire surveys were completed by 433 older adults who were recruited at a ‘Gardening Australia Expo’ he…
Visitors' memories of wildlife tourism
The impact of music festival attendance on young people’s psychological and social well-being
Although the social, emotional, physical and cognitive benefits of engagement in music are well known, little research has been conducted on the psychological benefits of music in the context of music festivals. This article draws on theoretical constructs from the field of positive psychology to interpret the impact of music festival attendance on participants’ psychological and social well-being. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected…
Using tourism free‐choice learning experiences to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour
This paper argues the need for the providers of ecotourism and other free‐choice environmental learning experiences to promote the adoption of environmentally sustainable actions beyond their own sites, when visitors return to their home environments. Previous research indicates that although visitors often leave such experiences with a heightened awareness of conservation issues and intentions to adopt environmentally responsible behaviours, onl…
Using post‐visit action resources to support family conservation learning following a wildlife tourism experience
Wildlife tourism experiences are often promoted for their ability to enhance visitors’ conservation knowledge, attitudes and behaviour; yet, studies exploring the long‐term influence of such experiences are rare. This research explores the impact of a wildlife tourism experience and post‐visit support on families’ adoption of conservation practices following their visit. In Stage 1, barriers and benefits associated with six conservation practices…
Visitors’ learning for environmental sustainability
Travel and Learning
Comparing captive and non-captive wildlife tourism
Effective environmental interpretation at Chinese natural attractions
In western society since the 1970s, interpretation has played an important role in improving tourists’ appreciation of the natural environment, developing their environmental attitudes and facilitating the adoption of environmentally sensitive behaviour. In China, interpretation of natural attractions is a more recent phenomenon and a largely cognitive approach has been taken, focusing on the presentation of scientific information. This paper que…
Minds On The Move
Designing and managing music festival experiences to enhance attendees’ psychological and social benefits
Attendance and participation at popular music festivals has become an important and increasingly common experience for people in many Western societies, yet little is known about the kinds of benefits visitors perceive they gain as a result of attending. This research explores attendees’ perceptions of the psychological and social benefits associated with their attendance at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland (Australia). Based upon the res…
Comparing Chinese and Western Visitors’ Responses to Interpretive Signs at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, China
Visitor experiences and interpretation at wildlife tourism sites are often designed to encourage visitors to adopt conservation actions. Typically, conservation messages are delivered via one-size-fits-all interpretive signage, with little consideration given to whether the same information attracts and engages different cultural groups. This study explores Chinese and international visitors’ perceptions of signage at the Chengdu Research Base of…
Chinese and Australian tourists' attitudes to nature, animals and environmental issues
Psychology (38 obras) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (25 obras) · Geography (24 obras) · Sociology (24 obras) · Tourism (23 obras) · Business (22 obras) · Political science (22 obras) · Environmental Education and Sustainability (20 obras) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (19 obras) · Pedagogy (18 obras)