Effective public expenditure currently dominates the management focus of many protected
areas. This calls for explicit modeling of constraints and motivations that, respectively,
obstruct and stimulate visits to selected outdoor destinations. Choice set formation is the
result of screening and/or inclusion of specific sites (alternatives) to form the set of sites
considered in real choices. Evidence shows that the omission of a structural representation
of choice set formation is harmful to econometric inference. Yet, the literature has largely …