Evaluation of the England day visits survey
In 2006, Mike Clark, Peter Gaskell, Nigel Curry and other CCRI staff, undertook an assessment of patterns and trends for day visits to the countryside. The project was funded by Defra and was concerned to examine the way patterns of rural leisure-making have been changing over time and what the principal influences over the making of leisure trips have been. Explicit consideration also was given to the way in which people are beginning to make use of ‘open country’ under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act, 2001. In general terms it was concluded that visits to the countryside are continuing to decline in the face of competition for our increasingly fragmented leisure time.
