Tourists’ before and after experience valuations: A unique choice experiment with policy implications for the nature-based tourism industry

Kularatne, Thamarasi; Wilson, Clevo; Lee, Boon L.; Hoang, Viet‐Ngu

doi:10.1016/j.eap.2021.01.002

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“…Therefore, the 'negotiative' approach to biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability is preferable combining top-down policy intervention with bottom-up local initiatives to enhance the value of the sustainable tourist experiences and the holistic sustainability of the destination. It is of more interest for scholars and practitioners than the 'prescriptive' approach, though it has its caveats [57][58][59][60][61][62].…”

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“…The need of mitigating overtourism in PAs is a trigger facilitating the emergence of a research trend for a comprehensive investigation of issues implied by uncontrolled visitation to PAs. Research into identifying carrying capacities and outlining codes of conduct for tourists, as have been highlighted above, is trending and focuses on finding optimal spatiotemporal management patterns (choreography and chronography) of visitor flows [31,61,65].…”

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Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

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The rationale of this article is the need to elicit the trending themes relevant to the latest research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. Hence, the purpose of this study: stocktaking of cutting-edge research articles in this field and eliciting the critical trends and issues shaping the knowledge, future research, and technical development perspectives on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. The focus is on the trends, which are pivotal for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030. A hierarchical cluster analysis was undertaken with a KH Coder 3.0 tool to elicit topical co-occurrence networks for thematic words in academic papers from 2015 to 2020 on the topic, quarried from Google Scholar. The article’s main findings are the seven identified major trending research themes on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability: (1) Community-based tourism development; (2) National Park management for tourism; (3) Sustainable tourist motivation; (4) Biodiversity conservation and ecotourism; (5) Landscape and land use changes; (6) Visitor satisfaction monitoring; and (7) Ecotourism modelling. The article’s main conclusion is that the criteria and conditions for responsible low-key tourism in protected areas, both for biodiversity and local communities, are pivotal factors to consider for future research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability.

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Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

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“…Although national parks are nature reserves from a natural perspective, psychological studies of tourist behavior are still applicable to the national parks' development of tourism. In the global academic community, a large number of scholars have cited representative variables of the facility management into their studies: Juutinen et al used the number and size of rest places in the most frequently visited places to describe the facility management of national parks [16]; Mzek et al cited the number of rangers to describe the level of management [14]; Han et al took the sanitary condition of facilities, the number of public venues and the number of medical rooms as the attributes to study [17]; Liu, Ge and Cao et al cited the number of garbage from the dimension of management [18,33,35]; Kularatne et al took the three-star accommodation and recreational facilities as the attributes to assess the construction level of the national parks' infrastructure [40]. It is remarkable that the pricing strategy is one of the key issues in the parks' operation and management, and the studies above all cited the admission fee as an attribute from the dimension of management.…”

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Tourists’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Biodiversity, Concession Activity and Recreational Management in Wuyishan National Park in China: A Choice Experiment Method

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It is necessary for national parks to exert multiple forms of influence. One innovative function of national parks is leisure and recreation. By optimizing the recreation function, national parks can enhance public participation and tourists’ willingness to pay to achieve sustainable development. This paper surveys 435 tourists in Wuyishan National Park with a discrete choice experiment, applies mixed logit models to explore their preferences for recreational attributes from three dimensions and analyzes the heterogeneity. The findings indicate that attributes such as the number of concession activities, transportation variety, the density of recreational facilities, biodiversity, sightseeing zone and combined ticket fee significantly impact tourists’ willingness to pay. Higher-educated, younger and willing-to-revisit tourists are more likely to pay for the park and hope to optimize the facilities and activities. The estimated recreational value of the park is RMB 164.51 (about USD 22.75) per person. Here, heterogeneity exist: higher-educated tourists ask for lager sightseeing zone, younger ones prefer more diverse activities and those who are willing to revisit incline to variety means of transportation.

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“…The presence and abundance of flagship species is an essential component of sustainable development of NBT (Aylward et al, 1996;Kularatne et al, 2021). It has also been found that if an attractive flagship species are not present, the market for this type of tourism is severely limited (Kru ¨ger, 2005;Skibins et al, 2012), even though the ecosystem might be particularly important in terms of its conservation priority (Wilson and Tisdell, 2001).…”

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“…The tourism attributes of nature-based destinations as discussed in the literature (Cong et al, 2017; Dybsand, 2020; Ryan et al, 2000) have focused on traditional attributes theory in consumer behaviour (hedonism and refreshment). The general tourism attributes have often been measured according to the behavioural dimensions of individuals, rather than acknowledging the complex and multidimensional tourism attributes pertaining to tourism development (Kularatne et al, 2021; Smith, 1994). In that respect, the tourism sector is a highly competitive market and its product unique (Huybers and Bennett, 2003; Tisdell and Wilson, 2012).…”

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Which national park attributes attract international tourists? A Sri Lankan case study

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This study assesses how and in what circumstances tourists’ perceived value of nature-based tourism (NBT) attributes differ among various types of national parks. A novel discrete choice experiment is used employing data collected from 343 international tourists in four national parks in Sri Lanka. We find that the improvements in frequency of large species’ encounters, habitat quality and proximity to encountered wildlife produce greater utility. A surprising finding is that tourists are shown to prefer to spend only a limited amount of time at national parks. They also tend to choose less-visited parks that have large mammals for which they would be willing to pay more compared to those national parks that are more frequently visited. Our article contributes to the empirical evidence that time is a key factor that determines the tourism destination choice and less-visited parks offer considerable potential for future growth of tourism.

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Tourists’ before and after experience valuations: A unique choice experiment with policy implications for the nature-based tourism industry

Cited by 17 publications

References 61 publications

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Tourists’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Biodiversity, Concession Activity and Recreational Management in Wuyishan National Park in China: A Choice Experiment Method

Which national park attributes attract international tourists? A Sri Lankan case study

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