TY - JOUR
T1 - Forest harvesting, resource-based tourism, and remoteness
T2 - An analysis of northern Ontario's sport fishing tourism
AU - Hunt, Len M.
AU - Boxall, Peter
AU - Englin, Jeffrey
AU - Haider, Wolfgang
PY - 2005/2/1
Y1 - 2005/2/1
N2 - This paper assesses the impact that the routine application of Ontario's forest management planning process has on the revenue generation of sport fishing tourism sites. The analysis employs a hedonic pricing model to examine jointly these effects on revenue for three tourism experiences. These tourism experiences offer different degrees of remoteness, and as a consequence, require different levels of effort and cost to visit. Modelling the relationship between price and attributes of sites such as remoteness permits the analysis to forecast the revenue generation potential of sport fishing tourism sites under a range of forest management schemes. The results show that the extent of forest harvesting had no statistical relationship with prices charged for fishing packages at road-, boat-, or train-accessible sites and a negative but small impact on the prices charged for fishing packages at sites accessible by float plane.
AB - This paper assesses the impact that the routine application of Ontario's forest management planning process has on the revenue generation of sport fishing tourism sites. The analysis employs a hedonic pricing model to examine jointly these effects on revenue for three tourism experiences. These tourism experiences offer different degrees of remoteness, and as a consequence, require different levels of effort and cost to visit. Modelling the relationship between price and attributes of sites such as remoteness permits the analysis to forecast the revenue generation potential of sport fishing tourism sites under a range of forest management schemes. The results show that the extent of forest harvesting had no statistical relationship with prices charged for fishing packages at road-, boat-, or train-accessible sites and a negative but small impact on the prices charged for fishing packages at sites accessible by float plane.
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U2 - 10.1139/x04-184
DO - 10.1139/x04-184
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:20044381319
SN - 0045-5067
VL - 35
SP - 401
EP - 409
JO - Canadian Journal of Forest Research
JF - Canadian Journal of Forest Research
IS - 2
ER -