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 …

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring
Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The …

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a
public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost …

One of the main characteristics of current tourism is the reduction in the length of stay at a
destination. Nevertheless, this variable has received little attention in literature. This paper …

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to
Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing …

Recent moves in the European Union have beenmade towards a toughening of legislation
onbathing water quality. This has focussedpolicy-makers thoughts on the welfare …

Using on-site survey data from Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland, this paper
estimates and compares several truncated count data models of recreation demand. The …

Background Physical inactivity has major impacts on health and productivity. Our aim was to
estimate the health and economic benefits of reducing the prevalence of physical inactivity …

Lake Tana is a well-known tourist spot in northern Ethiopia that lures both domestic and
foreign tourists. The lake's value is still underrated, despite the site's immense potential for …

Beaches provide multiple recreational opportunities, such as swimming, surfing, fishing,
walking or just enjoying being by the seaside. Most previous studies that have valued beach …