Untapped demand for heritage: A contingent valuation study of Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta

Dutta, Mousumi; Banerjee, Sarmila; Husain, Zakir

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2005.07.021

Cited by 60 publications

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“…Telephonic surveys can be used to administer questions, but visual cues are not obtained. Faceto-face interviews allow greater control over data acquisition but are time-consuming to undertake (Dutta et al 2007). Furthermore, in this study of tourists, no obvious sample frame was available from which postal addresses or telephone numbers could be acquired.…”

Section: The Valuation Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Various methods of eliciting WTP have been employed previously, including open-ended questions (Bateman et al 1995;Beltran and Rojas 1996;Bille Hansen 1997), a payments card (Kima et al 2007;Peters and Hawkins 2009), dichotomous choice (Lockwood et al 1996;Pollicino and Maddison 2001), iterative bidding games, and referendums (Dutta et al 2007). This survey employed a payment card, and respondents were provided with nine different offers on the basis of the pretest (RMB 5,10,20,30,40,50,100,200, and 500 (US$ 1= RMB 6.8)), from which they chose a single amount.…”

Section: The Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Estimating willingness to pay for environment conservation: a contingent valuation study of Kanas Nature Reserve, Xinjiang, China

Han

Yang

Wang

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Environ Monit Assess

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The primary objective of this study is to estimate publics' willingness to pay (WTP) for environment conservation and analyze factors influencing WTP. A questionnaire survey based on the contingent valuation method (CVM) was carried out at Kanas Nature Reserve, Xinjiang, China. Seventy-three percent of the 412 respondents were willing to pay at different levels, and the mean WTP value was RMB 54.60 ($8.03). The results of this survey struck an optimistic note that publics were willing to contribute to improve environmental quality. Logistic regression analysis was employed to compare the characteristics of those who were and were not willing to pay. Chi-square tests were administered to identify the relationships between various explanatory factors and WTP. Conclusions and implications of the empirical study can be provided to policy makers and site managers. In a wider sense, the findings of this study should make a good contribution to the literature related to WTP for environment conservation of natural attractions.

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Estimating willingness to pay for environment conservation: a contingent valuation study of Kanas Nature Reserve, Xinjiang, China

Han

Yang

Wang

et al. 2010

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“…Li, Wu, & Cai, 2008;Poria, Reichel, & Biran, 2001), the demand for (Dutta, Banerjee, & Husain, 2007) and possibilities for developing heritage tourism (Y. Li & Lo, 2005), its economic and social benefits (Bowitz & Ibenholt, 2009;Del Saz Salazar & Marques, 2005;Ruijgrok, 2006;Tuan & Navrud, 2008), and sustainable development (Chhabra, 2009).…”

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The Inclusion of the Communist/Socialist Heritage in the Emerging Representations of Eastern Europe: The Case of Bulgaria

Ivanova¹

2017

Tourism Culture & Communication

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After the fall of the Iron Curtain and the end of the communist/socialist regimes many Eastern European countries sought to establish new separate, unique identities as part of the Western World and the European political and economic organizations. The old totalitarian identities, histories, and heritages have mostly been excluded from the desired and preferred representations about and of these countries and in many instances even silenced and suppressed. Tourism as major creator and mediator of knowledges and images about places, peoples, and pasts is an important factor in these processes of identity making, inclusion, and exclusion. In the case of Bulgaria, the communist/socialist heritage has been marginalized and silenced in the past 20 years as the country's new European identity has been made, established, mediated, and announced. However, in the past 5 or so years with the hardships of the transitional period still continuing and with an emerging sense of nostalgia towards the socialist/communist period, the totalitarian heritage has slowly started to become visible in the public discourse. Moreover, there has been registered desire by authoritative agents in the country to revisit that part of the Bulgarian history and include it through heritage sites in the exhibited and represented images of Bulgaria including through/in tourism. The proposed article offers an examination of these slow and contested processes of inclusion of the communist/socialist heritage and how this inclusion (or continued exclusion) is the interplay of power, identity, and tourism. These issues are examined within the context of a qualitative critical interpretive study of Bulgaria.

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“…These methods include open-ended questions (Yang et al 2008), a payment card (Xu et al 2003;Han et al 2011), dichotomous choice (Petrolia and Kim 2011;Zhao et al 2013), iterative bidding games, and referendums (Dutta et al 2007). This survey employed open-ended questions because only a few studies focused on the WTP of residents for supporting WRPs in Taihu Lake.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spatial disparities of the willingness of the residents to pay for the wetland restoration of Taihu Lake and its integration into decision making: a case study on Wuxi, China

Sun

Zhu

2015

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Many wetland restoration projects (WRPs) have been conducted to restore the wetland ecosystem since a massive bloom of cyanobacteria in Taihu Lake in the summer of 2007. The willingness to pay (WTP) of residents for wetland restoration was expected to exhibit spatial disparities that were used for decision making. In this study, correlation analysis, binary logistic regression, and linear regression were used to assess 400 questionnaires collected through a contingent valuation survey. Results indicated that WTP amounts and the probability of positive WTP decrease as the distance from the wetlands increases. Knowledge of WRPs was the only factor that influences whether the respondents pay in the close distance (<3 km) and medium distance districts (>3 and <10 km), whereas in the remote distance district (>10 km), gender and income also affected WTP decision aside from the knowledge of WRPs. In terms of WTP amounts, income was the determining factor in the three districts, whereas age was a factor in the medium distance area. Results also showed that the growth rate of the water price should vary according to the distance of the area from the location of the WRPs. The water price was recommended to be increased by US$ 0.522/ton, 0.520/ton, and 0.509/ton in the close, medium, and remote distance districts, respectively.

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Untapped demand for heritage: A contingent valuation study of Prinsep Ghat, Calcutta

Cited by 60 publications

References 34 publications

Estimating willingness to pay for environment conservation: a contingent valuation study of Kanas Nature Reserve, Xinjiang, China

Estimating willingness to pay for environment conservation: a contingent valuation study of Kanas Nature Reserve, Xinjiang, China

The Inclusion of the Communist/Socialist Heritage in the Emerging Representations of Eastern Europe: The Case of Bulgaria

Spatial disparities of the willingness of the residents to pay for the wetland restoration of Taihu Lake and its integration into decision making: a case study on Wuxi, China

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