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  • Hvenegaard, G., and C. Banack. 2025. Visitor outcomes from dark sky tourism: A case study of the Jasper Dark Sky Festival. Journal of Ecotourism 24(1): 75-84.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., E.A. Halpenny, C.J. Blye, and K. Corrigan. 2024. Effects of COVID-19 on visitor intentions to attend personal interpretation programs in the provincial parks of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Interpretation Research 29(1): 10-25. .
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., E.A. Halpenny, and C.J. Blye. 2024. Visitor outcomes and emotional responses from attending personal interpretation programs at provincial parks in Alberta, Canada. Pp. 198-205 in: F. Niccolini, I. Azara, E Michopoulou, J.R. Barborak, & A. Cavicchi (eds.). Nature-based Tourism and Wellbeing: Impacts and Future Outlook. CABI, Wallingford, UK.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., C.-J. Blye & E. Halpenny. 2023. Nature interpretation. In S. Priest, S. Ritchie & D. Scott (Eds.). Outdoor Learning in Canada. Open Resource Textbook.
  • Orr, B., G.T. Hvenegaard, and C.A. Cook. 2023. Minimizing nature aversion among elementary students during environmental education programs. Children, Youth and Environments 33(2): 188-196.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., E.A. Halpenny, and C.J. Blye. 2023. Alignment of goals for personal interpretation among staff groups in a park agency. Journal of Interpretation Research 28(2): 144-165. .
  • Hvenegaard, G., K. Olson, & E. Halpenny. 2023. Direction for interpretive programming from Alberta Provincial Park management plans. Park Stewardship Forum, 39(1): 91-100. 
  • Blye, C.J., G.T. Hvenegaard, and E.A. Halpenny. 2023. Are we creatures of logic or emotions? Investigating the role of attitudes, worldviews, emotions, and knowledge gain from environmental interpretation on behavioral intentions of park visitors. Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership 15(1): 9-28.
  • Blye, C.J., G.T. Hvenegaard, and E.A. Halpenny. 2021. Personal interpretation starts with the interpreter: How do outcome priorities change over time among interpretive staff? Journal of Recreation and Park Administration. Online First.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., E.A. Halpenny, and J. Bueddefeld. 2021. Towards mobilizing knowledge for effective decision-making in parks and protected areas. Land 2021, 10, 254 . doi:10.3390/land10030254.Hvenegaard, G., K. Olson, K., & E. Halpenny. 2023. Direction for interpretive programming from Alberta Provincial Park management plans. Park Stewardship Forum, 39(1): 91-100.
  • Spenceley, A., A. Baez, J. r. Barborak, C.J. Blye, K. Bricker, H. Cahyadi, K. Corrigan, E. Halpenny, G. Hvenegaard, D. King, Y.-F. Leung, A. Mandic, S. McCool, R. Naidoo, D. Newsome, D. Rüede, J. Sano, M. Sarhan, V. Santamaria, T. Beraldo Sousa, and A.-K. Zschiegner. Sustainable recovery of tourism in protected areas from the COVID-19 pandemic. Transforming Vision into Action – Oped. UNWTO.
  • Spenceley, A., G. Hvenegaard, R. Bushell, Y.-F. Leung, S. McCool, and P.F.J. Eagles. 2018. The impacts of protected area tourism. pp. 9-26. in: Leung, Y.-F., A. Spenceley, G. Hvenegaard, and R. Buckley, (Eds.). Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Sustainability. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 27, World Commission on Protected areas. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
  • Hvenegaard, G., R. Buckley, A. Spenceley, and Y.-F. Leung. 2018. The future of protected area tourism. pp. 89-95 in: Leung, Y.-F., A. Spenceley, G. Hvenegaard, and R. Buckley, (Eds.). Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Sustainability. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 27, World Commission on Protected areas. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T. 2017. Visitors' perceived impacts of interpretation on knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intentions at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Tourism and Hospitality Research 17(1): 79-90.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T. and J. Shultis. 2016. The role of interpretation. Pp. 141-169 In P. Dearden, R. Rollins, and M. Needham (eds.). Parks and Protected Areas in Canada: Planning and Management, 4th Ed., Oxford University Press, Don Mills, ON.
  • Hvenegaard, G.T., H. Marshall, and R.H. Lemelin. 2016. Hot interpretation of controversial topics at Batoche National Historic Site, Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Interpretation Research 21(2): 47-64.