Park visitation in the context of Khartoum town
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2021Author
Ibrahim, Ahmed OsmanSaid, Mohamed Ahmed
Dodo, Yakubu Aminu
Bashir, Faizah Mohammed
Dano, Umar Lawal
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Parks improve people's physical and mental well-being, strengthen
communities, and make towns and neighborhoods more appealing places to
live and work. Many reasons discourage frequent park visitations, such as
poor park characteristics, poor management system, and the lack of
programs to encourage park visitation. Participation in different outdoor
activities has become a necessity for many people nowadays. However, many
residents are not engaged in recreational activities in Khartoum, making
parks an important element. Therefore, the study aimed at investigating
parks characteristics and different patterns of users based on societal needs.
The study concentrates on the residents' characteristics such as age, gender,
income, education level; these characteristics are tested against park
visitation patterns such as type of visitation, the best day for visitation, and
visit frequency. A two hundred and fifty (250) participant questionnaire
survey was carried out in Al Tifl Park to assess the park's visitation pattern
based on the purposive sampling technique. The result shows that most of
the visitation patterns were not frequent regardless of the visitors'
characteristics. It proves that the visitation pattern was not based on the
visitors' characteristics but rather on the park characteristics. The study
recommends that the park's features be redesigned based on user affinity to
improve visitation, visitor benefits, and income generation.
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