Relationships Among Mountaineers' Satisfaction, Their Motives and Their Attributes in Daisetsuzan National Park

Abstract

The purposes of the present paper were to clarify relationship between visitors' motives and satisfaction with their recreational experienceand to grasp visitors' attributes affecting their motives and satisfaction. Mountaineers in Daisetsuzan National Park were chosen for these purposes.
Based on the data from a questionnaire administered to mountaineers in Daisetsuzan Naional Park, I used chi-square to examine relationships among every dimension of multilateral satisfaction. Factor analysis with a varimax rotation was used to extract factors of motives. Analysis of variance was used to investigate relationships among factors of motives and multilateral satisfaction and to grasp how personal attributes and recreational behavior affected their motives and satisfaction.
As a result, each dimension of multilateral satisfaction affected each other. These relationsamong them showed some variance. Using factor analysis, sixextrated factors of motives accounted for 57 percent of variance. Factors of motives showed difference of relation to every dimension of multilateral satisfaction. Age and party size affected every factor of motives considerably. Age, gender, hobby, past experience, party size, route, type of camp affected some dimensions of multilateral satisfaction.
In conclusion, we should need to understand mountaineers' motives when attempting to manage for satisfying experience of mountaineering. In order to manage satisfying experience, there is too much yet to invesigate why mountaineers selected some types of recreational behavior to fit between their motives and actual experiences.