Phaneuf, Daniel J.; Smith, V. Kerry - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 2, Valuing …, (pp. 671-761). 2005
Travel cost recreation demand models stem from a simple, but penetrating, insight. Consumption of an outdoor recreation site's services requires the user to incur the costs of a trip to that site. Travel costs serve as implicit prices. These costs reflect both people's distances from recreation...