An analysis of the multiple recreation activity day trip

Typescript (photocopy).The multiple recreation activity trip has been a neglected aspect of recreation travel studies. While previous research on multiple recreation activity trips has focused on a small number of closely related activities, such as water-based activities, this research widens the base of activities both in number and type. It focuses on activities which require both natural and man-made resources and examines differences in selected socio-economic characteristics between those who participate in both single and multiple recreation activity trips. It further investigates whether there are differences between the groupings or clusters of activities on the multiple recreation activity trip. The results indicate that there are differences between those who took part in single as opposed to multiple activity trips for most of the 18 recreation activities investigated. The variables that proved to be useful in distinguishing between these two types of trips were travel cost, distance travelled, and party size. Other variables examined included household income, racial characteristics, and place of residence, but they did not clearly distinguish between single and multiple activity recreation trips. These six variables were also used to investigate differences between groupings of activities on multiple activity trips, but the results were less conclusive. Differences were found, however, between clusters of multiple activity trips in eight of the thirteen recreation activities. Three of the variables, cost, distance, and family income, were significant in distinguishing between clusters of secondary activities in eight of the activities which exhibited between cluster differences