TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing recreation carrying capacity of the environment attributes based on visitors’ willingness to pay
AU - Wang, Erda
AU - Wang, Yaru
AU - Yu, Yang
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 71640035 and 71271040].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Asia Pacific Tourism Association.
PY - 2017/9/2
Y1 - 2017/9/2
N2 - Recreation carrying capacity (RCC) is one of the most important indictors used in measuring the usage limits for the forest park resources. However, the consensus has not been reached with respect to the RCC’s content and its measuring metrics. In this paper, we attempt to establish a new RCC theoretical framework based on the demand theory of the tourism product characteristics. In the process, the choice experiment and orthogonal design methods are used in questionnaire designs and the conditional Logit model is used for parameter estimates. More than 700 park visitors are surveyed for data collection at the Shenyang National Forest park of Liaoning province in China. The primary park attributes being considered encompass vegetation, coverage, water quality, number of rubbish on the park trail path, admission fees, and congestion. The carrying capacity threshold for each specific attribute is identified.
AB - Recreation carrying capacity (RCC) is one of the most important indictors used in measuring the usage limits for the forest park resources. However, the consensus has not been reached with respect to the RCC’s content and its measuring metrics. In this paper, we attempt to establish a new RCC theoretical framework based on the demand theory of the tourism product characteristics. In the process, the choice experiment and orthogonal design methods are used in questionnaire designs and the conditional Logit model is used for parameter estimates. More than 700 park visitors are surveyed for data collection at the Shenyang National Forest park of Liaoning province in China. The primary park attributes being considered encompass vegetation, coverage, water quality, number of rubbish on the park trail path, admission fees, and congestion. The carrying capacity threshold for each specific attribute is identified.
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U2 - 10.1080/10941665.2017.1357638
DO - 10.1080/10941665.2017.1357638
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026875534
SN - 1094-1665
VL - 22
SP - 965
EP - 976
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
IS - 9
ER -