Estimating consumer surplus and elasticity of demand of tourist visitation to a region in North Queensland using contingent valuation

Tourism Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 317-328

  Greiner, Romy ^a   Rolfe, John ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consumer surplus; Contingent valuation; Daintree rainforest; Elasticity of demand; Recreation use fees; Traffic management

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFOREST; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; DAINTREE; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 5144228445     PISSN: 13548166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/0000000041895076     Document Type: Article

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