British Tourists' Valuation of a Turkish Beach Using Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods

Blakemore, F.B.; Williams, A. T.

doi:10.2112/06-0813.1

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“…The mean value that the 49% of respondents who were WTP for beach use gave as a reasonable charge was £1.62. This is similar to the values found to maintain beaches in other published work such as Blakemore and Williams [29] (£1.03 per adult per visit) and King [30] (£1.78). No unreasonably high (protest) values were received (maximum value of £3.50 per day, one respondent).…”

Section: Contingent Valuation; Beach Users 'Willingness To Pay'supporting

confidence: 90%

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Blakemore

Burrell

Jones

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This study evaluated the visual impact of the new hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales. This beach had existing hard coastal defences, road, car park and dwellings, which may have lead planners' to believe that the change would not impact upon beach users' enjoyment.However, a change in coastal scenery was expressed by 79% of those surveyed, using the perceptual approach, whilst the beach classification was unaffected using two checklist models. The beach is primarily utilised by families for children's play and to enjoy the surroundings. Nearly half of the beach users had concerns with regard to the new coastal defences and were willing to pay (£1.62 per visit) to fund alternative defence methods for the remaining shoreline. A fifth of respondents were willing to pay (£1.91 per visit) for the new defences to be removed and replaced with a more natural method of sea defence. The preferred payment mode in both cases was a car parking fee. Thus, this study has found that even apparently minor changes in scenery impact markedly upon the recreational enjoyment and valuation of the beach experience.

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Section: Contingent Valuation; Beach Users 'Willingness To Pay'supporting

confidence: 90%

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Blakemore

Burrell

Jones

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…Questionnaire design followed previous studies (Breton et al 1996;King 2001;Landry et al 2003;Blakemore and Williams 2008;Roca et al 2008;Marin et al 2009;Roca et al 2009;Williams and Micallef 2009;Ariza et al 2012;Lozoya 2012). The final questionnaire resulted in an evaluation of social, economic and demographic parameters for later analysis of the WTP and beach erosion perception.…”

Section: Beach User Questionnaire Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Surveys were conducted in situ using a pseudorandom selection of respondents. The trained interviewers followed a path alternating directions along the beach and through the beach loungers (King 2001;Blakemore and Williams 2008) approaching any group of people. Weekday/ weekend and morning/afternoon times were chosen to reflect actual visitation patterns as well.…”

Section: Beach User Questionnaire Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Respondent fatigue is well-documented (Lavrakas 2008) and likely to occur when participants become tired of the task and the quality of the data they provide begins to deteriorate. Blakemore and Williams (2008) interviewed 246 beachgoers, the majority of the respondents being British tourists. The authors found that 87 % of the interviewed users were willing to pay for beach use if that meant that the beach would be better maintained or improved.…”

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“…Identification of beach user preferences and priorities could also anticipate management measures addressed to beach aspects subject to high user pressure. Despite this growing interest in identifying the wide range of socioeconomic data sets relating to beach use, much of the studies are focused on tourist oriented coasts, beach resorts, marine parks (Blakemore and Williams 2008;Marin et al 2009;Roca et al 2009;Birdir et al 2013). Nevertheless, on tourist oriented coasts local residents are also directly affected by holidayrelated activities and hence have a strong moral case to be heard and heeded (Weaver and Lawton 2013).…”

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Coastal zones are complex systems where many different human activities and natural processes converge. One of the most profitable and enjoyable activities is beach tourism and recreation; however, coastal erosion can cause not only loss of land and asset values but also loss of environmental and landscape qualities and therefore their recreational value due to passive erosion from shoreline armouring and coastal development. This paper reports results from economic and demographic factors affecting public coastal erosion awareness and willingness to pay on the urban beaches of Cadiz, SW Spain. Although there is a great public awareness of coastal erosion among the interviewed adults from town, the willingness to pay for beach management improvement is minimal. The fact is possibly explained by the low regional economic status and the large number of local residents among the beachgoers. The majority of the respondents said that there should not be any extra charges because they pay regular local taxes and already pay for using beach services.

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British Tourists' Valuation of a Turkish Beach Using Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods

Cited by 64 publications

References 27 publications

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Coastal erosion perception and willingness to pay for beach management (Cadiz, Spain)

Economic Valuation of Ocean-Based and Ocean-Related Tourism and Recreation

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