Fees for Reefs: Economic Instruments to Protect Mexico’s Marine Natural Areas
| Autor: | Marisol Rivera-Planter, Carlos Muñoz-Piña |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Current Issues in Tourism. 8:195-213 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7603 1368-3500 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13683500508668214 |
| Popis: | Stated preference methods can be used to estimate the demand function where no price variation has been observed before. This is the situation of the Mexican coral reef natural protected areas, where after the 2002 approval of a $20 pesos fee (US$1.80) the Ministry of the Environment is now considering increasing the amount of the fee, not only to raise more revenue for the park, but also to curb the number of visitors in the cases where there is excess demand. There are concerns that the very success of the reefs is bringing associated environmental damage that threatens its sustainable use. To estimate the reaction of visitors to different fee levels, we carried out a contingent valuation survey, and constructed with its results an aggregate demand for each park. This demand was then divided by seasons and nationalities, to explore the benefits and costs of differentiating fees, looking at both the revenue maximising and the welfare maximising fees. Finally we discuss how these fees would change when en... |
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