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Indexed by:会议论文

Date of Publication:2015-01-01

Included Journals:CPCI-SSH

Page Number:52-57

Key Words:Forest Park; Recreation Resources; Economic Value; Choice Experiment; Conditional Logit Model

Abstract:As the demand increases for the nature-based tourism, nationwide forest parks are encountering both pressures of natural resource conservation and tourism demands in China. This paper utilizes CE method and Conditional Logit Models to value various attribute combinations of natural environment and management in order to discover those factors to use for improving the park management. The investigation develops some interesting results. One of them is that the number of people accommodated in the park exceeds tourist acceptable level and yet there is an inverse U shape relationship between the level of congestion and tourists' willingness to pay.