Study On Tourism Resource Value Evaluation Based On Benefit Transfer Method

In recent years, with the rapid development of countries in the world of tourism, nature tourism resource requirements increase dramatically. This is the an important task of world's governments and the academic community, scientifically and reasonably effective development and utilization of natural tourism resources and the sustainable development of tourism. Natural tourism resources as a non-market resources, its price is difficult to determine the relationship between supply and demand through the market. Non-market economic valuation has become an important source of information for tourism resource development decision-making. The developed countries have build a good theory and method system. The travel cost method (TCM) and contingent valuation method (CVM) are two primary approaches to estimate tourism resource values and have been widely used. But time and budget constraints often do not allow for a new primary study, and call for an alternative approach to non-market valuation known as benefit transfer which has been the attention and hotspot of environment and resource valuation field in the world.Based on the literature review, this dissertation details the methods and steps and analyzes its advantages and disadvantages. According to the situation in Dalian Xinghai Park, this dissertation attempts to evaluate the use of benefit transfer method Recreational Benefits from a domestic and an international perspective,which explore the feasibility of the method in China and the validity of Domestic and International Benefit Transfer. Get the following conclusions:(1) This dissertation used Domestic and International Benefit Transfer to evaluate the recreational values of Dalian Xinghai Park, get the consumer surplus per person per day respectively, 530.47 yuan and 338.49 yuan. Testing of the validity, transfer error is within acceptable range,which shows shows the transfer efficiency and effective in China.(2) Benefit transfer method is a quick and effective evaluation method of non-market value of the resources, when the major evaluation method of non-market resource values is time and budget constraints.