Estimating the value of beach recreation for locals in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia

Prayaga, Prabha

doi:10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.001

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“…There have been many studies in which the willingness to pay for environmental issues has been quantified, some of which include the following: improvement in the quality of bathing water [31][32][33][34][35][36]; beach maintenance and improvement [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]; the protection of marine species [46][47][48]; the restoration of environmentally deteriorated beaches [49][50][51]; the development of additional tourist services on beaches [44,[52][53][54]; the maintenance of beach ecosystem services [55]; etc.…”

Section: The Willingness To Pay For Cultural Heritage and Sustainablementioning

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Willingness to Pay for More Sustainable Tourism Destinations in World Heritage Cities: The Case of Caceres, Spain

Jurado-Rivas

Sánchez-Rivero

2019

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Sustainable tourism management is becoming an increasingly important factor in the image of tourist destinations. Therefore, it is appropriate to consider the possibility of charging a premium price on certain tourism products or services in exchange for making them more sustainable. Generally, eco-friendly management of cultural heritage sites, and particularly World Heritage sites, along with protected natural areas, is essential for the image enhancement of tourist destinations. In line with these considerations, this paper aims to quantify the willingness to pay (WTP) an extra amount in order for certain tourism products and services to become more sustainable in a World Heritage city such as Caceres, Spain. By using the contingent valuation method, the average price increase that tourists visiting the city would be willing to pay for a double room in a hotel, a restaurant, entrance to a museum, or a taxi ride, all of which would become more sustainable services, has been estimated. In addition to the aggregate analysis, diverse average-comparison statistical techniques have been used in order to determine the possible influence of sociodemographic factors on the WTP for more sustainable products and services. Specifically, factors including the effect resulting from a tourist’s place of origin, gender, the year when the survey was conducted (through t-tests), and the effect of age and educational levels (through ANOVA tests) on the WTP for sustainability, have been analyzed. When considering all of the sociodemographic factors involved, notable statistical differences have been found. This implies that when a hypothetical increase in tourism prices for the purpose of financing public or private sustainability actions is considered, different segments of the tourism market should be taken into account, since it would not be appropriate to apply the same policy of price increases to all tourists equally.

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Section: The Willingness To Pay For Cultural Heritage and Sustainablementioning

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Willingness to Pay for More Sustainable Tourism Destinations in World Heritage Cities: The Case of Caceres, Spain

Jurado-Rivas

Sánchez-Rivero

2019

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“…Motivational reasons for this group tend to be activities (such as picnicking, soccer, or flying kites). Previous studies also showed that visitors' recreational experience varies for different modes of recreation [38]. Visitors to the Calligraphy Greenway also had varying recreational experiences and levels of satisfaction, depending on the different activities in which they participated.…”

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Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Liu

Chuang

2018

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This study explores preferences for a set of attributes that characterize the recreational value of Calligraphy Greenway, the most notable greenbelt in Taichung City, Taiwan. As an urban green space, the Calligraphy Greenway has its own recreational attributes and visitors' preferences. This study uses the choice experiment method to determine visitors' preference levels for five major attributes to improve the recreational quality. On average, each visitor visited there 9.15 times in the past year and spent 2.37 h per visit. Of the five recreational attributes, satisfaction with recreational activity opportunities had the highest score and satisfaction with cultural landscape resources had the lowest score. The importance is ranked in the order of recreational service quality, total recreational cost, environmental landscape resources, cultural landscape resources and recreational activity opportunities. Considering difference of groups, female visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but male visitors were more concerned with service quality and natural/cultural landscape resources. Local visitors were more concerned with cost and activities but non-local visitors were more concerned with environmental/cultural landscape resources. Both were concerned with service quality. Based on the results, this study makes the following recommendations: cultural landscape resources and quality of recreational services and facilities should be improved and more complete interpretative educational guidance should be provided to increase visitors' willingness to visit. Additionally, it is suggested to set up various districts to cater for preferences of different visitor groups.

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“…Thus, a higher income in Ereaga had a positive effect on the number of trips, in line with travel cost studies in other areas (Fezzi et al, 2014;Ezebilo, 2016), while the effect was the opposite in the other two beaches. We think that this could be related with the higher number of non-locals found in Ereaga, which translates into a higher economic effort incurred every time they want to visit the beach (Prayaga, 2017). Therefore, those with higher incomes might be able to travel more frequently here.…”

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Financial Inputs for Ecosystem Service Outputs: Beach Recreation Recovery After Investments in Ecological Restoration

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In the Nerbioi estuary (North Spain), the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) constructed in 1990 resulted in an abrupt decrease in water pollution and an opportunity for improved recreational experiences in the three beaches on the estuary. The monetary value of these recreational benefits was estimated using the travel cost method and compared, via a partial cost-benefit analysis, with the costs of beach maintenance. The travel cost models reveal that summer recreational trips to the three Nerbioi beaches have a value of 5.99, 7.06, and 8.09 € trip −1 , respectively. Visitor's profile and social characteristics influenced the models, while the effects of these variables also varied across beaches. Following a conservative approach, the aggregate recreational value of the estuarine beaches was estimated to be more than 3.5 million year −1. This economic benefit, obtained from summer estimates and focusing on one ecosystem service (i.e., beach recreation) from the multiple ones offered by the estuary, is sufficient to cover 100% of annual beach maintenance costs and 12% of the annual sewerage system running costs. Our findings highlight that investing in water sanitation projects such as WWTPs are not only important for the ecological recovery of degraded coastal environments, but also produce additional human benefits that are able to cover (at least) part of the running cost of these large capital investments.

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Estimating the value of beach recreation for locals in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia

Cited by 37 publications

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Willingness to Pay for More Sustainable Tourism Destinations in World Heritage Cities: The Case of Caceres, Spain

Willingness to Pay for More Sustainable Tourism Destinations in World Heritage Cities: The Case of Caceres, Spain

Preferences of Tourists for the Service Quality of Taichung Calligraphy Greenway in Taiwan

Financial Inputs for Ecosystem Service Outputs: Beach Recreation Recovery After Investments in Ecological Restoration

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