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Environmental Resources as Latent Primary Factors of Production in Tourism: The Case of Forest-Based Commercial Recreation

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  • David W. Marcouiller

    (Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 106 Old Music Hall, Madison, WI 53706, USA)

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The supply of tourism, in many respects, remains an unresolved area of theoretical and empirical development. The reasons for this are many, but the author argues in this paper that one of the limiting core areas of conceptual development in tourism economics is the general need for an analytical framework that captures generic production processes used to produce output from the tourism sector. One important unresolved issue of production includes use of critical resources such as environmental goods that serve as latent primary factor inputs to the production process of tourism. Often, these resources are hidden from analysis due to their non-priced common-pool attributes. This is particularly true in rural amenity-rich regions where nature-based tourism firms are becoming increasingly important to regional economies. Using forest resources as an example, the incorporation of non-priced tourism production inputs more completely specifies the tourism production function, provides a critical linkage to land and recreation resource management, and allows for more integrative tourism planning approaches.

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  • David W. Marcouiller, 1998. "Environmental Resources as Latent Primary Factors of Production in Tourism: The Case of Forest-Based Commercial Recreation," Tourism Economics, , vol. 4(2), pages 131-145, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:4:y:1998:i:2:p:131-145
    DOI: 10.1177/135481669800400202
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    1. Bowe, Scott A. & Marcouiller, David W., 2007. "Alternative tourism-timber dependencies and the development of forested rural regions," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(6), pages 653-670, February.
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    5. Xi Wang & Jewoo Kim & Jaewook Kim & Yoon Koh, 2024. "Application of Natural-Resource-Based View to Nature-Based Tourism Destinations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(6), pages 1-16, March.
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    8. David Marcouiller, 2013. "The rural development attributes of tourism," Chapters, in: Gary Paul Green (ed.), Handbook of Rural Development, chapter 9, pages i-ii, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    9. Jean-Christophe Dissart, 2007. "Landscapes and regional development: What are the links?," Cahiers d'Economie et Sociologie Rurales, INRA Department of Economics, vol. 84, pages 61-91.
    10. Marcouiller, David W. & Prey, Jeff, 2005. "The Tourism Supply Linkage: Recreational Sites and their Related Natural Amenities," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 35(1), pages 1-10.
    11. David W. Marcouiller & Xianli Xia, 2008. "Distribution of Income from Tourism-Sensitive Employment," Tourism Economics, , vol. 14(3), pages 545-565, September.
    12. Deller, Steven & Lledo, Victor, 2007. "Amenities and Rural Appalachia Economic Growth," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 36(1), pages 107-132, April.
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    14. Guangqing Chi & David Marcouiller, 2011. "Isolating the Effect of Natural Amenities on Population Change at the Local Level," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(4), pages 491-505.
    15. Jean-Christophe Dissart, 2005. "Installations récréatives extérieures et développement économique régional : le cas des zones rurales isolées aux États-Unis," Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, Armand Colin, vol. 0(2), pages 217-248.
    16. Renaud Lapeyre, 2009. "Revenue Sharing in Community–Private Sector Lodges in Namibia: A Bargaining Model," Tourism Economics, , vol. 15(3), pages 653-669, September.
    17. Jean-Christophe Dissart, 2007. "Landscapes and regional development: What are the links?," Post-Print hal-01201159, HAL.
    18. Dissart, Jean-Christophe, 2007. "Landscapes and regional development: What are the links?," Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales (CESR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), vol. 84.

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