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Visitor Perceptions of Captive, Endangered Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus) Used as Photo Props in Jemaa El Fna Square, Marrakech, Morocco
  15 Visitors to Jemaa El Fna Square can pay to have their photograph taken with Barbary 16 macaques. Our aim was to characterise visitors' perceptions of such photo props, 17 enabling demand-reducing interventions to be targeted appropriately and destination 18 managers to maintain or enhance the visitor experience. Visitors to Jemaa El Fna 19 (n=513) were surveyed using a 25-item questionnaire including closed and open 20 questions. 21 Most visitors (88%) neither intended to use macaque photo props nor did; 7% either 22 intended to or did use photo props; while 5% both used photo props and had intended 23 to do so. Moroccans were more likely than foreigners to use macaque photo props or 24

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    13 November 2018

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1080/08927936.2018.1529360

  • Cross Ref:

    10.1080/08927936.2018.1529360

  • ISSN:

    0892-7936

  • Library of Congress:

    QL Zoology

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    590 Animals (Zoology)

  • Funders:

    New Funder

Citation

Stazaker, K., & Mackinnon, J. (2018). Visitor Perceptions of Captive, Endangered Barbary Macaques (Macaca sylvanus) Used as Photo Props in Jemaa El Fna Square, Marrakech, Morocco. Anthrozoös, 31(6), 761-776. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2018.1529360

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Keywords

attitude; primate; tourism; visitor experience; wildlife trade

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