Short-stop visitation in Shark Bay World Heritage Area: an importance–performance analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An importance–performance analysis (IPA) investigated levels of satisfaction with natural attributes and facilities in place at a short-stop nature-based tourism site in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area (WHA). Over 700 on-site questionnaires were collected from visitors who visited the stromatolite viewing-boardwalk, an attraction with little managerial presence in the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. Results indicate that, although an attraction in its own right, visitors use the Reserve as a ‘convenient break’ en route to other destinations in the WHA. Visitors indicated high interest in the natural attributes and the interpretive educational facilities at the site and are overall satisfied with their experience, despite low levels of visitor infrastructure and facilities. This study found that acceptable levels of visitor satisfaction can occur at short-stop sites with minimal levels of infrastructure. Visitors identified the need for additional educational facilities, with a preference for updating interpretative signs or developing an educational mobile phone app. In addition, this research emphasises the IPA approach as a useful tool for identification of management priorities for infrastructure and programme development, prior to implementing management change of a site.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".