Multi-destination and multi-purpose trip effects in the analysis of the demand for trips to a remote recreational site
>Roberto Martinez-Espineira and Joe Amoako-Tuffour
One of the basic assumptions of the travel cost method for recreational demand analysis is that the travel cost is always incurred for a single purpose recreational trip. Several studies have skirted around the issue with simplifying assumptions and dropping observations considered as non-conventional holiday-makers or as non-traditional visitors from the sample. The effectof such simplifications on the benefit estimates remains conjectural. Given the remoteness of notable recreational parks, multi-destination or multi-purpose trips are not uncommon. This paper examines the consequences of allocating travel costs to a recreational site when some trips were taken for purposes other than recreation and/or included visits to other recreational sites. Using a multi-purpose weighting approach on data from Gros Morne National Park, Canada, we conclude that a proper correction for multi-destination or multi-purpose trip is more of what is needed to avoid potential biases in the estimated effects of the price (travel-cost) variable and of the income variable in the trip generation equation.
Year of publication: |
November 30, 2008
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Authors: | Martínez-Espiñeira, Roberto ; Amoako-Tuffour, Joe |
Publisher: |
Brussels, Belgium : EERI, Economics and Econometrics Research Institute |
Subject: | Travel cost method | multi-purpose trips | multi-destination trips | count data | consumer surplus | endogenous stratification | Theorie | Theory | Tourismus | Tourism | Tourismusregion | Tourism destination | TRIPS | Immaterialgüterrechte | Intellectual property rights |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 36 Seiten) |
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Series: | EERI research paper series. - Brussels : EERI, ISSN 2031-4892, ZDB-ID 2861229-2. - Vol. no 2008/19 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/142530 [Handle] |
Classification: | Q26 - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources ; C24 - Truncated and Censored Models |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523638