Comparative Analysis Of Nonmarket Valuation Techniques For The Eduardo Avaroa Reserve Bolivia An Article From Ecological Economics

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Ecological tourism has Held Up as a Potentially important development in alternative Relatively undeveloped regions and countries. However, tourism activity Is A Highly vulnerable tourists WHERE display voluntary and discretionary Behavior. While tourism Cdn serve as year-Income Generating Activity pour la region, That Is Developed Uncontrolled tourism without consideration of Cdn The Environmental Impact adversely affect the Natural Areas. Determining What to charge tourists to view a Natural Area Is Difficult sincere demand elasticities are not readily available from observable transactions. In order to gauge Better The Value tourists place on the reserve and Their sensitivity to exchange in The Costs of visiting Eduardo Avaroa, non-market valuation SEVERAL Provides Valuable tools. Here, we test convergent validity The Between Two popular non-market valuation alternatives: the contingent valuation method Behavior & the quota method. Tourists To The Eduardo Avaroa Reserve in Bolivia Were Asked Their willingness to pay (in visitor-days in gold dollars) annually due to improvement in tourism services at the reserve. Our models show Traditionally thats the important variables predict willingness to pay for Improved Services for the Behavior contingent, contingent valuation & the pooled model. However, weekends and find statistiquement Empirically Meaningful distinctions in the Estimate derived from The Two methods. Comparison of the implications of The Entrance fee Adopting recommendations from The Two non-market valuation techniques are based are made to increase the Revenue Predicted to park if Eduardo Avaroa Reserve Were Improved management techniques. This research highlights The challenges in using non-market valuation techniques for policy formation, particularly in a Developing Country setting.