The recreational value of Lake McKenzie, Fraser Island: An application of the travel cost method

Fleming, Christopher; Cook, Averil

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2008.02.022

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“…The travel cost method is a non-market procedure which seeks to place a value on recreational sites by using consumption behaviour in related markets (Fleming, Cook 2008). The underlying assumption in TCM is that the value of a place is equal to the costs respondents pay to use that place.…”

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Determining the recreational value of forest park by travel cost method and defining its effective factors

Pirikiya¹,

Hamid²,

Oladi³

et al. 2016

J. For. Sci.

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Considering the importance of recreation and excursions in household's basket of expenditures on the one hand, and not paying attention to the economic value of recreational function for natural resources and environment as non-market goods on the other hand, this paper was written with the aim of estimating the recreational value of Shahid Zare Sari Forest Park when using the individual travel cost method. Requested data sets were obtained by completing questionnaires from 302 individuals who visited the above-mentioned park in 2012-2013. In the individual travel cost method, for the investigation of distributional effects of variables on the number of travels, a linear regression model was applied. For this purpose the travel generation function using linear, double log, linear-log and log-linear forms was estimated. Among these forms, according to the econometrical parameter, a linear function was selected and parameters were estimated based on the method of ordinary least squares. The consumer surplus was 12.53 USD per each visit and the annual recreational value of 72,500 people who visited the park annually was 52,558 USD·ha -1 . The findings also showed that the involved variables, travel costs, income and visitor's distance were statistically significant at 1% level and family and education were significant at 5% level. Results revealed that forest parks have a considerable recreational value that, from this point of view, can help programmers and executives, social and economic managers in the preservation planning and sustainable utilization of natural resources.

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Determining the recreational value of forest park by travel cost method and defining its effective factors

Pirikiya¹,

Hamid²,

Oladi³

et al. 2016

J. For. Sci.

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“…Most of the reviewed studies and publications did not report about numbers of questions asked in questionnaires (see e.g. Fleming, Cook 2008;Brezovská, Holécy 2009).…”

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“…For more details about TCM see e. g. Fleming and Cook (2008); Willis and Garrod (2008); Brezovská and Holécy (2009). Further, for example Garod and Willis (1999); Šálka et al (2008); Trice and Wood (1986) To prepare the questionnaire, publications and case studies by foreign researchers were used (Bateman et al 2002;Peyron et al 2002;Carson, Hanemann 2005;Verbič, Slabe-Erker 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

Selected results of the survey focused on the economic assessment of forest ecosystem services

Hlaváčková¹,

Březina²,

Meňházová³

2015

J. For. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:A survey was conducted in the Training Forest Enterprise called Masaryk Forest in Křtiny (TFE Křtiny) in order to determine the extent of recreational use of the area, visitors' travel costs and their willingness to pay for services provided by the forest ecosystem of TFE Křtiny in the years 2013-2014. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the partial results of the research from 2013 and 2014 which was focused on the economic assessment of the recreational potential of the TFE MF Křtiny. The busiest roads in the forest road network and bike trails located in the Bílovice nad Svitavou forest district were selected. The results can be used to assess the impact of the forest enterprise on the economic and social development of the area, to measure the attractiveness, quality and facilities offered in the forest.

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“…One is the traditional Clawson-Knetsch model (Clawson and Knetsch, 1966). The other one is the gravity model (Hanley and Spash, 1993), which is often used in geography and transport studies to model commuting decisions (Fleming, 2008). The methodology of the traditional Clawson-Knetsch model can be read in numerous books (Cicchetti et al, 1973;Cesario and Knetsch, 1976;Willis, 1990Willis, , 1991Wang and Guo, 2000, etc).…”

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“…The third approach is suggested by Hotelling (Ward and Beal 2000) and has been developed by Mendelsohn et al (1992). This method was considered to resolve the problem of the multi-destination, and the gravity model (Fleming and Cook, 2008) can be used as the travel cost model of the multi-destination. However, it was a shame that, in this survey, most of multi-destination tourists failed to write down both the names of multi-destination and the number of destinations clearly, so the tourists of MDT has to be excluded from the sample to avoid possible bias.…”

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The Recreational Value of Bama in China: One of the Five World’s Longevity Townships

Liu¹,

Nie²,

Liao³

2012

BMR

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The recreational value of Bama Area in China is estimated to be 2.73 hundred millions dollars in 2009 via a revisionary travel cost method (TCM) in this paper. To make the estimation more applicable to the case of Bama, one of the five top longevity townships in the world, this paper adopts a new partition method and revises two calculation principles. Firstly, the conventional zonal travel cost method is amended to divide tourists by their travel cost instead of geographical or administrative zones. Secondly, the cost of tourists for different duration in Bama is calculated respectively. For short-term tourists, travel cost is estimated with the opportunity cost coefficient 1/3. The opportunity cost of the long-term tourists is replaced by their daily board and lodging cost in Bama. Thirdly, the total recreational value only covers special visits to Bama but excludes multi-destination visits. With the three modifications, it is plausible that the recreational value of Bama estimated in this paper reflects more objectively the resource characteristics and real value of the site.

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The recreational value of Lake McKenzie, Fraser Island: An application of the travel cost method

Cited by 140 publications

References 33 publications

Determining the recreational value of forest park by travel cost method and defining its effective factors

Determining the recreational value of forest park by travel cost method and defining its effective factors

Selected results of the survey focused on the economic assessment of forest ecosystem services

The Recreational Value of Bama in China: One of the Five World’s Longevity Townships

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