Using Choice Modeling to estimate the effects of environmental improvements on local development: When the purpose modifies the tool

Estimating Residents’ Preferences of the Land Use Program Surrounding Forest Park, Taiwan

“…Examples of valuation scenarios of the CE model include economic values of land use planning scenarios in Spain's semi-watershed [13], marginal willingness to stay of the recreational impact programs in Portugal [27], and MWTP for the community ecotourism programs [19]. These papers applied the estimation results and built up variety scenarios with the attributes successfully.…”

“…The distribution of the final CE questionnaire started in October of 2015. Based on the above discussion, seven characteristics were included as CE attributes in the design: agricultural farming type [24,25], biodiversity [6,16,26], water provision [12], land use type [6,10,13,26,27], ecotourism mode [13], WTP, and WTW [6,13,26,28], as well as the levels of the attributes in relation to ecosystem services, as shown in Table 1. Agricultural production provides nutrition and health for human society [29].…”

Capturing Tourists’ Preferences for the Management of Community-Based Ecotourism in a Forest Park

“…Following the past CE research [1,6,8,11,14,[17][18][19][20][21]32,33], this study utilized a CE design to understand community-based ecotourism in the DFP area. We first built up the CE attributes and levels based on literature reviews covering the fields of community-based ecotourism and protected areas and also used onsite interviews with focus group discussions [13] such as those carried out with local government officers, community managers, economists, and the NGOs that have been working or studying in the area surrounding the DFP.…”

“…Indeed, this methodology had been widely applied in the recreation and ecotourism fields in the past two decades such as in the application of tourist preferences and MWTP for rock climbing [15], tourists' preferences for nature-based tourism in a national park [2], tourists' and local residents' preferences for ecotourism development in a protected area [14], the analysis of tourists' MWTP for cultural and experiential aspects in a heritage site [20], estimating preferences for a site and environmental functions in a national park [21], analyzing management strategy with regard to the attributes of ecology and recreation in a national park [6], estimating tourists' preferences under ecotourism planning surrounding a national park [1], estimating cyclists' preferences under the rubric of activity on bicycle routes [22], evaluating the cultural attributes of a cultural tourism and safari tour package [8,11], comparison of tourists' and locals' preferences for an environmental improvement program for local development [18], analyzing aboriginal people's cultural values for a case of freshwater in Māori culture [23], and estimating multiple attributes in an ecotourism site [19].…”

“…Furthermore, the CE model can capture respondents' preferences for potential quality improvement programs [13,[17][18][19], disclose multiple attributes and levels from empirical results that can be incorporated into policy making, and generate useful information for budget allocations based on specific topics [13,[16][17][18]. The MWTP is capable of capturing tourists' preferences regarding recreational and cultural aspects of experience activities or in ecotourism valuation fields [1,3,6,14,15,[17][18][19].…”