The promotion of recreation and tourism has been both praised and criticized as a rural development strategy. This … study uses regression analysis to assess the effect of recreation and tourism development on socioeconomic conditions in … rural recreation counties. The findings imply that recreation and tourism development contributes to rural well …

Farm-based recreation provides an important niche market for farmers, but limited empirical information is available on … Survey on Recreation and the Environment, provided researchers with a deeper understanding of who operates farm …-based recreation enterprises, such as hunting and fishing operations, horseback riding businesses, on-farm rodeos, and petting zoos …

engaging in outdoor recreation activities. The state of Alabama and the Black-Belt region possess significant recreational … based on recreation demand models—a.k.a. Travel Cost models (TCM). The travel costs’ Negative Binomial regression reveals …

In Finland, privately owned nature areas are widely used for recreation due to open public access. However, since … typical recreation site on private lands. The mean willingness to pay was 92 euros per year and the mean willingness to …

The focus of the research reported in this paper has been to estimate recreation values for beaches over approximately … recreation values to a general type of recreation asset rather than to a specific site, and because it focuses on the values of … the local resident population. Negative binomial models have been used to estimate both the visit rate and recreation …