Sustainable Garden Tourism in the United Kingdom or What’s Behind the Fence?
Sustainable Garden Tourism in the United Kingdom or What’s Behind the Fence?
PDFAuthors: Barbora Čakovská
Volume/Issue: Volume 20: Issue 2
Published online: 29 Dec 2017
Pages: 49–54
Abstract
As the garden visiting is rapidly taking place in the character and role of the leisure in the UK there is the need to gain more knowledge on motivation of garden opening and to complete the previous researches aimed mostly at visitors. Although the significance of charity openings, in many cases with personal and local interests, is undoubtedly a manifestation of the success of the National Garden Scheme (NGS), there are many other reasons why the owners decided to share their gardens with the public. The study has captured the owners’ motivation and divided it into six categories revealing different motivations why people took part in The National Garden Scheme. Such an approach uncovers connections between the garden and the owner and the garden opening can be therefore understood in a variety of ways and plays a different role for each owner.
Keywords: private gardens, the National Garden Scheme, qualitative research, garden visiting
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