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Several studies have explained that easy access increases the number of tourist visits to conservation areas. Additionally, numerous tourists have been observed exhibiting ignorant behavior and causing environmental damage. However, exploration of studies suggesting the connection between accessibility and tourists' negligent behavior is still limited. This research aims to prove the influence of easy access on tourist behavior by exploring tourist typologies. Therefore, the perception of accessibility is included as one of the indicators that form the typology. The study was conducted in Komodo National Park, one of the most popular destinations in Indonesia, which has experienced high accessibility development. The research method employed tourism policy and factor-cluster analysis to examine the tourist typology. Accessibility constructs and hedonic tourist motivation were used as the variables in the analysis. The total respondents were 534, and the data were analyzed using a non-hierarchical K-means cluster analysis. The result showed that three aspects were considered when managing accessibility in the protected areas. The aspects included destination, individual, and conservation accessibilities in the national park. Further, four tourist typologies were found in this research. Two new typologies, hedonistic adventure tourists and high-risk hedonistic tourists, indicated ignorant behavior. Two others, such as real ecotourists and nature-relaxing tourists, presented general nature-based tourist characteristics in the existing literature. The managerial implications of this research include providing practical insights for planners and destination managers to improve conservation awareness among remarkably ignorant tourists.
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