Abstract
Hunting has major importance from many perspectives: As a product of leisure and recreation, as a tool for conservation and wildlife management, as the main economic activity in rural areas, or as a cultural heritage and traditional activity for countries around the world, especially for countries in Europe and Africa. Therefore, this research fills a gap in the literature and offers a cross-cultural opinion and perceptions of 198 hunters from Romania and Spain. The aim of the paper is to analyze the perceptions and opinions of hunters regarding hunting tourism through an online self-administrated questionnaire by convenience sampling using hunters associations from these countries. Among the values that identify hunting as an activity, hunters highlight the human values (friendship, company, ethics), ecological values (love of nature associated with hunting as a tool to understand and enjoy the natural environment), and social values (resources generated, hobby, effort). The respondents can self-criticize some components and aspects of hunting groups. Hunters believe that the future of this sector is moving towards commercial hunting, associated with purchasing power to ensure results. Regardless of the nationality of the hunters, their values related to this sector are similar.
Highlights
IntroductionHunting tourism is defined as [2] “an organized paid trip aimed on satisfying the needs of consumers (hunters) in service or extreme, sports and recreational or cognitive character in the process of their staying in the natural habitat of hunting animals”
Hunting is one of the most important activities of the primary sector [1] whose evolution—from the primitive character of the activity as a surviving purpose—until now has undergone remarkable technical, organizational, social, and economic transformations.Hunting tourism is defined as [2] “an organized paid trip aimed on satisfying the needs of consumers in service or extreme, sports and recreational or cognitive character in the process of their staying in the natural habitat of hunting animals”
The percentages of the type of hunting could be considered quite similar for Romania and Spain
Summary
Hunting tourism is defined as [2] “an organized paid trip aimed on satisfying the needs of consumers (hunters) in service or extreme, sports and recreational or cognitive character in the process of their staying in the natural habitat of hunting animals”. Hunting tourists are those hunters who travel outside their usual hunting area [3]. As an economic activity by setting up an income supplement in hunting areas, a market hunting beingand created as a tourism new tourism [5] especially in rural areas [8], [15,16,17,18] As a product of leisure and recreative [4], namely hunting tourism, due to the increase in experience in practicing this information in recent decades; as the use and conservation of natural spaces to keep the animal population controlled and ordered the number of specimens to support the natural balance, intersected with wildlife regulation [5], the commodification of wildlife experiences [6], and wildlife management for sustainable hunting [7]; as an economic activity by setting up an income supplement in hunting areas, a market hunting being created as a new tourism economy [5] especially in rural areas [8], jobcreating activity [1,9], and sometimes with the purpose of reducing poverty [10]; as cultural heritage [9,11,12,13] and traditional activity [14]. 4.0/).
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