A travel cost assessment of the demand for recreation in Swiss forests

Borzykowski, Nicolas; Baranzini, Andrea; Maradan, David

doi:10.1007/s41130-017-0047-4

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“…Scientific research related to the determination of nonmarket value of goods and services of forest ecosystems, including the protected areas has been carried out in the forestry sector for many years, which is evidenced by numerous research studies (Willis and Garrod 1990, Christie et al 2004, de Groot et al 2010, Czajkowski et al 2015, Borzykowski et al 2017, Borzykowski 2018. The economic valuation of the leisure function of the forests and areas of natural value using the TCM in the European countries was also presented in the form of a meta-analysis (Zandersen andTol 2009, De Salvo andSignorello 2015).…”

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Benefits of recreation in the “Nad Tanwią” nature reserve determined by the travel cost method

2020

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The quality of valuable natural areas is assessed through the prism of benefits derived from all the functions performed by them, among which tourist and recreational functions play an increasingly important role. The comparison of benefits and costs related to the provision of recreational services has an impact on the learning of tools used to assess tourist investments. The main purpose of the article was to determine financial benefits obtained by tourists visiting the „Nad Tanwią” Nature Reserve located in the south-eastern part of Poland, calculated using the travel cost method. The survey method was used as part of the research. Surveys were conducted from May to September 2017 on a group of 341 respondents. Data regarding the length of the visit and the amount of costs related to the stay in the Reserve were subjected to statistical analysis using the CART method. The results of the survey showed that the respondents reported a need for 14 types of visits depending on their duration. The value of the consumer surplus amounted to PLN 986/person, and the value of the gross benefit amounted to PLN 1,069/person. The value of the consumer surplus, which was the share of tourists visiting the Reserve during the year, amounted to PLN 108 million, and the gross value of non-market benefits for this group was PLN 118 million. Building a model of travel costs in the area of the Reserve allows for the assessment of recreational benefits of this place. The development of tourism and recreation in areas attractive in terms of nature contributes to improvement with regard to meeting recreational needs of tourists and the existing transportation infrastructure.

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Benefits of recreation in the “Nad Tanwią” nature reserve determined by the travel cost method

2020

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“…The basic model that satisfies the non-negative integer or the count data process is the Poisson model (Hellerstein, 1991). Predominant problems with on-site samples are truncation, that is, exclusion of non-users (Borzykowski, Baranzini, and Maradan, 2017), and endogenous stratification, that is, oversampling frequent visitors. Shaw (1988) and Englin and Shonkwiler (1995) derived the distribution correcting for the joint effects of truncation and endogenous stratification (on-site) for the Poisson and Negative Binomial distribution, respectively.…”

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Effects of Ad-hoc Data Truncation and Homogeneous Preferences on Recreational Demand and Values: An Application to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

Sardana

Bergstrom

Bowker

2021

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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We estimate a travel cost model for the George Washington & Jefferson National Forests using an On-Site Latent Class Poisson Model. We show that the constraints of ad-hoc truncation and homogenous preferences significantly impact consumer surplus estimates derived from the on-site travel cost model. By relaxing the constraints, we show that more than one class of visitors with unique preferences exists in the population. The resulting demand functions, price responsive behaviors, and consumer surplus estimates reflect differences across these classes of visitors. With heterogeneous preferences, a group of ‘local residents’ exists with a probability of 8% and, on average take 113 visits.

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“…Among scientists-foreigners who dealt with the problems of economic and mathematical modeling of demand for recreational forest use can be noted next works: Nicolas Borzykowski, Andrea Baranzini and David Maradan [1], Anna Bartczak, Jeffrey Englin and Arwin Pang [2], Arne Arnberger1, Martin Ebenberger, Ingrid E. Schneider, Stuart Cottrell, Alexander C. Schlueter, Eick von Ruschkowski, Robert C. Venette, Stephanie A. Snyder and Paul H. Gobster [3], Paula Simo˜es, Eduardo Barata and Luis Cruz [4], Léa Tardieu and Laëtitia Tuffery [5], Mariusz Ciesielski and Krzysztof Stereńczak [6] and others.…”

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“…Maradan in the paper [1] researchs the demand for recreation in Swiss forests using the personal travel cost method. They use a two-steps method, a hurdle zerotruncated negative binomial model, that allows accounting for a large number of non-visitors caused by the off-site phone s inspect and over-dispersion.…”

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“…For these areas, recreational benefits may be lower than cost caused by support. More efficient administration would require either refining recreational infrastructure thus increasing benefits, or exchanging the forest status from recreational to biodiversity forest therefore decreasing management expense [1]. recreation has been a main covered in many paper, little attention has been used so far to seasonal demand.…”

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Economic and Mathematical Modeling of Demand for Recreational Forest Management in Ukraine

Kneysler¹,

Zhurba²,

Spasiv³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 7th International Conference on Modeling, Development and Strategic Management of Economic System (MDSM

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The article is devoted to the research of recreational forest management problems Based on the review of scientific works of foreign and domestic scientists, the main aspects of economic and mathematical modeling of the demand for recreational forest use and the main criteria for the attractiveness of recreational forest areas for recreation have been determined. An economic and mathematical model of determining the demand for recreational services, which is based on the study of the behavior and interests of the recreation, is proposed. Taking into account the economic criteria of the demand model, a mathematical model is proposed that realizes the search for the optimal recreation strategy based on the criterion of financial constraints and maximization of total usefulness. The results of the proposed models testing on one of the average forestry showed that the strategic behavior of the recreant, taking into account the economic criterion, is to minimize the total cost of the recreational process. The modeling results show that this recreational facility is in demand. The model can be adapted to other conditions of recreational areas functioning.

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A travel cost assessment of the demand for recreation in Swiss forests

Cited by 20 publications

References 33 publications

Benefits of recreation in the “Nad Tanwią” nature reserve determined by the travel cost method

Benefits of recreation in the “Nad Tanwią” nature reserve determined by the travel cost method

Effects of Ad-hoc Data Truncation and Homogeneous Preferences on Recreational Demand and Values: An Application to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

Economic and Mathematical Modeling of Demand for Recreational Forest Management in Ukraine

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