Study On River Recreation Opportunity Spectrum

As one of important components of outdoor recreation, the current supply of rivers recreation opportunities obviously can not meet people's demand. Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS), has been proved to be one of most effective recreation resource management tools. It also has a very exciting application prospect in Chinese recreation resource management. However, its application is affected by the social and cultural environment applied. To achieve the best effect, it's necessary to do more localization research.Taking Gui River Beijing as the study area, the study examines the perceptions of visitors on environmental setting attributes, in order to develop a River Recreation Opportunity Spectrum. Several methods of Multivariate Statistical Analysis are application in data processing .The study finds the universal identity of significance of environmental setting on recreational experience in deferent visitors. Nine environmental factors are identified in the study including facilities supply, degree of isolation, environmental interpretation, human development, naturalness environmental impact, observing management, accessibility and remoteness. Furthermore, it confirmed five type of open environment, that is Urban (U), Suburban (S), Rural Developed (RD), Rural Natural (RN) and Semi-primitive (SP). Aforementioned framework has a more universal application no rivers close to areas with relatively obvious human interference. In addition, it gained some substantial data about the current general characteristics of river recreationists, and found that there's conspicuous correlation between living environment, education & income levels and environmental preferences, which has a certain significance of references to river recreation related decision-making.