Cvm, In The Valuation Of Eco-tourism Resources

With the awareness of environmental importance,the economic values of environmental resources are more and more needed to be accounted for in the cost-benefits analysis(CBA) of policies or projects.Economic valuation of natural recreational resources,as a part of environmental resources,remains one of the most active study fields.Outdoor recreational resources are usually assumed to be quasi-public goods. Among the total utility one gains from public or quasi-public goods,consumer surplus often contributes unignorably as a fairly great part.Due to its ability to extract consumer surplus,contingent value method(CVM) is most frequently used to value recreational resources.However,even as one of the most classic non-market valuation techniques,methodological and empirical CVM is rather limited in China.So it is desirable to carry out more deliberate and in-depth CVM studies in China.With Beijing Botanical Garden as the study area,the paper employs CVM to measure the non-use value of eco-tourism resources there,and carries out correlative analysis.Main conclusions go as following:1.We can conclude from the correlative analysis of the impact of social economic character to paying will that:family locating area,occupation and individual earning per month have no correlative with paying will;age has some correlative with paying will;education background has marked correlative with paying will.2.We can conclude from the correlative analysis of the impact of social economic character to the number of WTP that:family locating area and individual earning per month have a little of affection to paying will;age has notable irrelative with paying will;education background has biggish affection to paying will;occupation has obvious correlative with paying will.3.Through investigating and reckoning,the paper has educed that:the WTP 4.median of consumer' smax paying will is￥11.26,the tourist number coming Beijing Botanical Garden per year is 600,0000,so the tourism resources' value of Beijing Botanical Garden is￥3.9756×10~8.