Estimating the Recreational Value and Determining Effective Parameters on Willingness to Pay of Saint Stephanus Church Visitors by applying Two Stages Heckman Approach

Subject Areas : environmental management

Mohammad Khodaverdizadeh ¹ , Babollah Hayati ² , Hossein Raheli ³ , Mohammad Kavoosi Kalashami ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Urmia
2 - Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz
3 - Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz
4 - Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture sciences, University of Guilan

Received: 2013-05-23 Accepted : 2013-10-15 Published : 2015-06-22

Keywords: Recreational value, Saint Stephanus church, two stages Heckman approach, Willingness&#x0D, &#x0D, to Pay,

Abstract :

Saint Stephanus church is one of the famous churches of North-West of Iran located in boarder ofAras River. Mentioned place is one the tourism and promenade zone in East Azerbaijan province thathas incredible potential and capacities due to its environmental perspective and recreational aspect.So, investigating recreational value of this place could be useful in predicting needs, removingscarcities and development of tourism industry in East Azerbaijan province. The main characteristic ofpresent study was separating effective parameters for existence of recreational value and wtp levels byapplying two stages Heckman approach. Requested data set were obtained by completingquestionnaires and interviewing with 317 individuals who visit mentioned church in 2008. Resultsrevealed that variables include revenues, education, family size and dummy variable of sex wereeffective on existing of wtp and variables such as revenues, family size, education, age and dummyvariable of satisfying with welfare facilities were dominant on wtp level. Mean wtp for each visitoracquired 4800 RLs per year and annual recreational value of Saint Stephanos church was 1344 millionRLs.

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