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Demand for Visitation to U.S. National Park Areas: Entrance Fees and Individual Area Attributes

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  • Ngure, Njoroge
  • Chapman, Duane

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We examine the effects of entrance .fees and other factors in visitation to U.S. national park areas under two partially competing hypotheses: 1) fees are significant explanatory variables; and 2) individual area attributes are the primary determinants of visitation rates. (National park areas include natural protected areas, historic areas, and other categories in the national park system). We find that areas comprising natural protected areas behaved like economic substitutes for each other, and historic areas like economic complements. In addition, the results have confirmed the importance of individual park attributes in visitation, but are equivocal on the role of entrance fees. The role of other socio-economic variables and of park size is also analyzed.

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  • Ngure, Njoroge & Chapman, Duane, 1999. "Demand for Visitation to U.S. National Park Areas: Entrance Fees and Individual Area Attributes," Working Papers 127698, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cudawp:127698
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.127698
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    1. Kevin E. Henrickson & Erica H. Johnson, 2013. "The Demand for Spatially Complementary National Parks," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 89(2), pages 330-345.

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