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Multi-Destination and Multi-Purpose Trip Effects in the Analysis of the Demand for Trips to a Remote Recreational Site

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  • Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira

    (St Francis Xavier University, Department of Economics)

  • Joe Amoako-Tuffour

    (St Francis Xavier University, Department of Economics)

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One of the basic assumptions of the travel cost method for recreational demand analysis is that the travel cost is always incurred for a single purpose recreational trip. Several studies have skirted around the issue with simplifying assumptions and dropping observations considered as nonconventional holiday-makers or as nontraditional visitors from the sample. The effect of such simplifications on the benefit estimates remains conjectural. Given the remoteness of notable recreational parks, multi-destination or multi-purpose trips are not uncommon. This article examines the consequences of allocating travel costs to a recreational site when some trips were taken for purposes other than recreation and/or included visits to other recreational sites. Using a multi-purpose weighting approach on data from Gros Morne National Park, Canada, we conclude that a proper correction for multi-destination or multi-purpose trip is more of what is needed to avoid potential biases in the estimated effects of the price (travel-cost) variable and of the income variable in the trip generation equation.

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  • Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira & Joe Amoako-Tuffour, 2009. "Multi-Destination and Multi-Purpose Trip Effects in the Analysis of the Demand for Trips to a Remote Recreational Site," Environmental Management, Springer, vol. 43(6), pages 1146-1161, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envman:v:43:y:2009:i:6:d:10.1007_s00267-008-9253-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9253-9
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