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Can anyone recommend an impact evaluation study in the field of green / sustainable tourism?
I am working on tourists' willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We have used CVM in a local case study but I am now thinking that we may need to consider some kind of experiment or Randomised Control Trial to identify the predictors of WTP. Does anyone know about a study that has tried something like that?
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Dear My Friend
I will so glad if I can help you and your colleagues. Please explain exactly , what do you want for your research?
All the Best
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Dear colleague,i give you and utile adress:
Mazilu Mirela Elena,Globalization-Tourism a model from Green economy Proceedings of the 2-nd International Conference on Business Administration(ICBA’2011),Montreux,
Switzerland,Dec.29-31,2011,p.63-71,ISBN:978-1-61804-061-9, coordinated by European Society for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development,indexed by ISI, Published by WSEAS Press
http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2011/Montreux/ICICIC/ICICIC-10.pdf
http://www.wseas.us/books/2011/Montreux/ICICIC.pdf
i hope,to help this article,and best regards, -
I prefer to help on this green tourism in Thailand
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I don't know of a study that has looked at tourists' willingness to pay for climate change mitigation doing an experiment or Randomised Control Trial to identify the predictors of WTP. You sound as if you are familiar with the various methodological approaches for such a study, and I'm sure you can find examples from outside of tourism that could be adapted to your needs. However, I'm not sure how much value doing such a study looking at tourists would be - these sorts of study need a lot of data to be able to be subject to the robust statistical analysis required if you are to be able to identify the predictors of WTP. Regarding climate change, tourists' WTP is perhaps just a small part of the equation, with the big issue being whether or not the extra revenues raised would find their way to the right points in the value chain for climate change mitigation investments, and whether those points would have the capacity to make such investments effectively. I'm sure you're aware of the difficulties experienced so far in the area of carbon offsets. Also, if prices are raised across the board - for example, due to legislation levying some sort of carbon taxes - people still travel, and travel and tourism still grow (perhaps a small bit slower) - getting at this means looking at price elasticities rather than WTP.
So I'd question if the results of a detailed WTP study - which to do properly will be costly and time-consuming - would actually be of much practical use, compared to alternative approaches. It also wouldn't give much clue as to whether tourists would in practice pay real money, unless you can also take into account the range of factors that determine holiday choices, costs, etc., or about ways to ensure that revenues raised would be used effectively for additional climate mitigation investment (rather than displacing investment that would have happened anyway).
The UNWTO has published a report on tourism and climate change, assessing overall emissions due to the tourism sector and their contribution towards climate change. You should be able to get a copy via the UNWTO website. However, I don't think it has any tourist WTP information in it - nor does the tourism and the green economy chapter that has recently been published (also available I think from the UNWTO website). -
if you want known about green economy tourism,...i think you must find a few research on national park as well as ecotourism. So one reason as the title scheme is sustainable environmental (ecotourism) to sustainable production (economy) and finally combination from there is green economy tourism. -
Dear friend,
To be sustain, one must considers three main factors which included: social, economy, and environment to tourism. In my works i preferred evaluating social impacts and how to mitigate the impacts. Social capital indicators were recommended as a useful assessment tool. Enhancing of social capital such as social network is neccessary to sustanable tourism development. -
You may refer to several assessment methods related to willings studies. Journal Ecotourism and Journal of Sustainable Tourism publish such studies. Alternatively, u may also try using modified Leopold matrix for assessing weighted scores or simple Multi criteria analysis (for considering multiple criteria if needs to assess at the same time).
You need to frame proper questionnaires pointing towards willingness - as clear outcome.
You may also refer to my papers, if need. -
Can you check with UNWTO, they have quite a number of studies in climate change and tourism. My concentration area is maily on the social impacts of tourism. Thank you
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Please, find here three references from my bibliographic database in Zotero. This is not exactly impact evaluation studies in sustainable tourism but may be it can help you by the number of examples given. The English reference is mainly about examples from South-Pacific area. -
- SOFIELD Trevor H.B., 2007, Empowerment for sustainable tourism development, Bingley, Emerald, coll. Tourism social science series, 401 p.
- AMALOU Pierre, BARIOULET Hervé et VELLAS François (dir.), 2001, Tourisme, éthique et développement, Paris, L'Harmattan, 303 p.
- LAURENT Alain (dir.), 2009, Tourisme responsable, clé d'entrée pour le développement territorial durable. Guide pour la réflexion et l'action, Lyon, Chronique sociale, 511 p. - -
Hallo Everyone. This was my first question on Research Gate and I am overwhelmed by the kind replies. Thank you very much for all the inputs. I have attached a copy of the paper that I have been busy with, if anyone is interested. But I am still pondering how to get past the problems of contingent valuation. At the moment I am thinking about giving out vouchers to survey respondents that they can then choose to spend on themselves or on a climate change mitigation effort. Maybe that will help to sovle the cheap talk concerns. I am going to take the idea to some ICT experts and keep everyone posted on the progress. -
In connection with your request, the following review paper may be of interest :
Remoundou, K. and al. (2009) Valuation of natural marine ecosystems : an economic perspective, 12, 1040-1051.
Even though the keyword « sustainable tourism » does not appear in the title, this paper reviews several contingent evaluation and choice experiment studies examining the feasibility of implementing sustainable tourism policies. Here is a link to the paper :
http://www.sesame-ip.eu/doc/Nunes_et_al.pdf -
Mazilu Mirela Elena,Globalization-Tourism a model from Green economy Proceedings of the 2-nd International Conference on Business Administration(ICBA’2011),Montreux,
Switzerland,Dec.29-31,2011,p.63-71,ISBN:978-1-61804-061-9, coordinated by European Society for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development,indexed by ISI, Published by WSEAS Press
http://www.wseas.us/e-library/conferences/2011/Montreux/ICICIC/ICICIC-10.pdf
http://www.wseas.us/books/2011/Montreux/ICICIC.pdf
www.wseas.org,2011 -
Dear Mirela, can you give me some suggestion about the indicator of determinant factor of tourist spend in national park. And what the relation bethween environmental uniqueness to tourist spending. thanks
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Here I have a study on ecotourism although might not fit directly to your study but might help you gain some insights and also choose some indicators for your study.
http://www.ipublishing.co.in/jesvol1no12010/EIJES2031.pdf
Thanks Parth -
thanks a lot mr. Parth
