A time series analysis of the impact of recession on national park visitation in the United States

Poudyal, Neelam C.; Paudel, Bamadev; Tarrant, Michael A.

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2012.07.001

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“…Data on use and visitation for parks and reserves are available for some countries only (Balmford et al, 2009(Balmford et al, , 2015, and the degree of detail differs greatly between and within nations. Park use varies with attractions, notably biodiversity (Stevens et al, 2014;Siikamäki et al, 2015; proximity and access (Bancroft et al, 2015;Rossi et al, 2015), and wealth (Poudyal et al, 2013). Use of greenspace varies with many local factors (Jones et al, 2009;Lin et al, 2014;McCormack et al, 2014;Veitch et al, 2015).…”

Section: People and Nature Experiencesmentioning

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Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

Buckley

Brough

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Exposure to nature yields a wide range of mental health benefits. Improvements in mental health have substantial economic value, through: reduced mental healthcare costs; improved workplace productivity; and reduced costs of antisocial behavior, both public, and private. These economic gains represent an unquantified ecosystem service attributable to conservation. Since most individual people, and hence most politicians and policy-makers, care more about the private good of individual health than the public good of ecosystem and biodiversity conservation, calculating the economic value of nature via its contributions to human mental health could prove influential in achieving conservation goals. Here, we review relevant literature, establish a framework for these calculations, and identify immediate information gaps and research priorities. Current estimates rely on assumptions, but are similar in scale to those from tourism and recreation, which do influence policy.

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Section: People and Nature Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

Buckley

Brough

2017

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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“…Moreover, it is difficult to determine whether there is a relevant dependency between visitor numbers and highly unstable spatial variables. Meta-analyses of the recreational value of national parks with respect to biophysical, socioeconomic and regional or national dummy variables document only a few dependencies, which are, furthermore, of low significance [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. The chief limiting factor of this study, therefore, is the limited number of factors under examination.…”

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Factors Affecting the Number of Visitors in National Parks in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria

Štemberk

Dolejs

Mareŝová

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IJGI

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Abstract:In the context of national-level strategies, the importance of tourism in national parks is on the rise. The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between the number of visitors to national parks and five variables: area, number of employees, budget, average employee salary and number of researchers in 12 national parks in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. Analysis of factors influencing the number of visitors to national parks uses the method of retrospective analysis of the data contained in internal documents and questionnaires among managers of national parks. The number of candidate predictors is relatively high when compared with the number of observations. Due to this fact, the Gilmour method for statistical analysis is used. Statistical results represented by the parameter β 2 for number of employees is −33,016 (95% CI, −50,592-−15,441) and by the parameter β 3 for budget is 0.586 (95% CI, 0.295-0.878), showing that the number of visitors increases with budget, while it decreases with the number of employees. The results of this study are a useful starting point for managers in their efforts to focus on developing key areas in an appropriate way. In conclusion, results show that increasing the economic benefits accruing from national parks regional policy could aim at a qualitative upgrading of tourist services, increased marketing of the unique national park label and the promotion of a diverse regional supply base.

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“…Richards (2005) emphasizes the need to differentiate cultural tourism from a conceptual and operational point of view regard to new tourism trends. Numerous authors suggested some other development forms according to their analysis of visitation effects of destinations (Šergo et al, 2017, Poudyal et al, 2013, Eugenio-Martin and Campos-Soria, 2014 and also importance of collaborative economy (Dredge, 2017) and quantitative and qualitative approaches in tourism (Dwyer et al, 2017) as a priority for understanding new tourism issues and approaches.…”

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Sustainable Initiatives in Cultural Tourism - The Roles of Stakeholders in Minimizing Externalities

Gržinić¹

2018

Proceedings of the 4th International Scientific Conference - SITCON 2018

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The main aim of this paper is to study sustainable tourism initiatives in order to minimize negative effects of mass tourism intensity, with an emphasis on initiatives in culture. Tourism trends are heavier and more prolonged in countries that are concentrated on tourism quantity rather than quality. Confining tourism to the counting of tourist arrivals and overnights (monitoring of the scope and structure of visits) cannot be long-term sustainable tourism, only short-term strategy oriented toward mass tourism and high dependence on import. This paper analyses the possibility of destination development through the added value of the cultural tourist product, the level of encouragement of cultural tourism initiatives, cross-border cooperation and financing sources for the needs of tourism, with the accent on European (Mediterranean) tourism development. New tourism initiatives are described based on tourist products and added values, dynamic and modular travels, development of attractions according to the types of visits, stakeholder partnerships and resource valorisation, expertise and market specialisations. The contribution of the paper lies in the proposal of a model of sustainable destination development through dual destination image. It includes distribution of funds for innovations and creativity in order to minimize externalities (high seasonality, pollution, crises etc.).

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A time series analysis of the impact of recession on national park visitation in the United States

Cited by 30 publications

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Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

Factors Affecting the Number of Visitors in National Parks in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria

Sustainable Initiatives in Cultural Tourism - The Roles of Stakeholders in Minimizing Externalities

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