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  1 - Comparison of Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods to Estimate Outdoor Recreation Value of Recreation, Tourism and Aesthetic Function of Bamou National Park
  hamid amirnejad Kamal Ataie Solout ardavan zarandian
  10.22034/jest.2021.2652.1211
  Background and Objective: Valuation of functions and Non-Market services of environment are important for many reasons such as identifying and understanding the environmental and ecological benefits by humans, presentation of environmental issues to decision makers and More

  Background and Objective: Valuation of functions and Non-Market services of environment are important for many reasons such as identifying and understanding the environmental and ecological benefits by humans, presentation of environmental issues to decision makers and planners, providing link between economic policies and natural revenues and assess the role and importance of environmental resources in support of human welfare and sustainable development. Methods: In this study, recreational value of Bamou Park is estimated and measured with using two methods of contingent value and travel cost. For this purpose, 315 questionnaires from visitor to extract the required data have been matched. Findings: Based on estimated results, variables: inhabitance, distance from park, first visit, number of visit, Deontologist, education, travel cost, visitors income, museum existence, and existence of Animal species such as deer, wolf, wild ram and cinereous vulture is effective variable on willingness to pay of visitor in 2011. Results show that monthly expected willingness to pay of consequentialist and deontologist visitors is 51397 and 61028 Rial respectively. Finally, recreational value of Bamou Park estimated in 2 methods is 1.085 and 1.975 Billion Rial respectively in 2011. Discussion and Conclusion:  Since that travel cost method used market price information and revealed willingness to pay and also 90.7 percentages of visitors are Zone inhabitance and travel cost function was ideal form econometrics theoretical aspect, preferred using travel cost method instead of contingent value method to valuating the Bamou National Park in 2011. Manuscript profile
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  2 - Economic Valuation of Promenades Using Zonal Travel Costs Method (Z.T.C.M) (Case study: Koohrang Waterfall of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province)
  Davood Mafi Gholami Nabiollah Yarali Akram Nouri Kamari
  Introduction: According to daily increasing request of people for promenades and recreationalcenters, social and economic analysis and full review of people requirements is a key factor inproviding required facilities.Materials and Methods: In this study, Zonal Travel C More

  Introduction: According to daily increasing request of people for promenades and recreationalcenters, social and economic analysis and full review of people requirements is a key factor inproviding required facilities.Materials and Methods: In this study, Zonal Travel Costs Method (Z.T.C.M) was used forrecreational valuation of Koohrang waterfall. This method is based on map, overview, socialeconomicalcharacteristics of visitors of promenades and also increasing in cost and distant fromregion.Results: Obtained data from completed questionnaire by visitors, statistical calculations regarding todistribution of visitors and estimating travel costs showed that the recreational value of Koohrangwaterfall is 156.377.600.000 Iranian Rials. Money making value depends on the best natural locationand beautiful sights around it. Results showed that variables like age, education and amount ofvisitor’s income had significant impacts on use of promenades. Investigating amount of visitor’sincome showed strong correlation between this variable and number of visited days of promenade andalso their interest to pay entrance charges. It also showed that level of education has a key role inabsorbing visitors for Koohrang waterfall as most of the visitors were university graduates. Level ofadvantage has direct relation with income, as relief times of people would increase by increasing levelof education. Investigation of studying in some promenades of the country showed that there are moreinterest among teenagers and middle ages but our results showed most of the visitors (25%) were inthe range of 30-34. Results provided some valuable information to graduate promenade level ofKoohrang waterfall Manuscript profile
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  3 - Economic Evaluation of Recreational Operation of Ahwaz Beach Park Using Individual Travel Cost Method
  abas abdeshahi Ebrahim Ensan
  10.22034/jest.2018.12821
  Background and Objective: According to the increasing demand for recreational and entertainment centers, economic and social analysis and investigating human needs providing possibilities and facilities is neccesary. The main objective of this study is to estimate the r More

  Background and Objective: According to the increasing demand for recreational and entertainment centers, economic and social analysis and investigating human needs providing possibilities and facilities is neccesary. The main objective of this study is to estimate the recreational value of Ahwaz Beach Park as an important entertainment center of Khuzestan people especially Ahwaz city. Method: Individual Travel Cost Method as an effective method in planning and managing development projects was used in this study. Individual visits are as dependent and individual travel cost and socio-economic variables are independent variables. Needed data were collected in 1391 by completing 234 questionnaires from visitors of the site. Findings: The results indicated that the age of visitors has an acceptable but insignificant effect on numbers of visits. On the other hand, the variables of education and income have a positive effect and travel cost has a negative effect on visits. Recreational value of Beach Park was estimated about 157885 Rials per person and 1342022500 Rials ‌for a year in total. Discussion and Conclusion: Since the results indicate the significant economic value of Beach Park, it is necessary to codify its tourism development plan. ‍‍‍‍Policies should be based on development of recreations and urban Parks with maintaining high environmental standards and creating mechanisms for capital return. Manuscript profile
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  4 - Studying Factors Affecting on the Estimating Recreation Value by Using Travel Cost Method (Case Study of Sorkheh Hesar National Park)
  Mehdi Rahmati Sayeh Razieh Bashiri
    Background and Objective: nowadays, modern life of humans has lead people to need more to visit natural recreation sites. Therefore, evaluating recreation value of natural promenades could show that how important role they have in our new lifestyle. Thi More

    Background and Objective: nowadays, modern life of humans has lead people to need more to visit natural recreation sites. Therefore, evaluating recreation value of natural promenades could show that how important role they have in our new lifestyle. This caused to be our first priority in our modern life to protect from these recreation sites. Method: Analyzed factors that affect on the recreation value in travel cost method is the first aim of this study, and second aim is to estimate the recreation value by using the travel cost method. According to these factors, twenty circles with equal distances of two Km were drawn. The Results: Finally, the primary recreation value of Sorkheh Hesar national park based on the accessibility cost, which had been calculated 2,625,249,000 Rial in each month, by estimating the surface area under the demand curve. In order to find out which factors could affect on recreation value, a model had been developed by using 25 parameters. According to this model, visitor’s marital status, the distance between the habitat to the promenade, number of visitors, the brightness and the quality of cleaning were the most affecting factors in the recreation value model. Conclusion: The results show that, there is a direct relationship between the improvement of the quality of lightning and the recreational value. This direct relationship also exists between the number of visitors and recreation value. On the other hand, if the lightning quality improves and the amount of visitors increase the recreation value of Sorkheh Hesar national park will increase too. But, increasing the rate of single visitors and reducing the quality of cleaning would cause recreation value to decrease in this national park. Manuscript profile
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  5 - Economic-recreational valuation of Koohestan forest park of Kermanshah using Zonal Travel Cost Method (Z.T.C.M)
  Sohrab Moradi Saleh Mahmoudi
  Background and Objective: Nowadays, regular evaluation of recreational and non-market benefits of environmental resources is necessary so that those positive aspects be combined into politics and planned decisions. The main goal of this research is economic-recreational More

  Background and Objective: Nowadays, regular evaluation of recreational and non-market benefits of environmental resources is necessary so that those positive aspects be combined into politics and planned decisions. The main goal of this research is economic-recreational valuation of Koohestan forest park-Kermanshah using the zonal travel cost method.Materials and Methods: Collecting quantitative and qualitative data, visiting the park, preparing questionnaires and analysis of the findings using Excel software have been the main principles of the related research. Validity and reliability of the questionnaires were approved by the scientific board members of Payame Noor University and Cronbach alpha coefficient respectively.Results: Investigating the monthly income level of visitors showed that there is a high correlation between this variable in one hand and the number of days of visiting the promenade and also willingness to pay the entrance fee on the other hand. The results also showed that the level of education also plays an important role in attracting tourists such that the largest number of visitors was literate people. Reviewing of the carried out studies over Koohestan Forest Park showed that the highest number of visitors (48%) were in the age range of 20-35 years.The high recreational value of Koohestan forest park, which was calculated in the spring and summer of 2016, was equal to 727045380 rials.Discussion and Conclusions: The results indicate the need for more attention and the development of a comprehensive plan of tourism development for forest parks that can be an effective tool in planning and managing developmental projects. Manuscript profile
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  6 - ارزش‌گذاری اقتصادی سایت‌های تفریحی با استفاده از رویکرد هزینه سفر انفرادی تک‌منظوره؛ مطالعه موردی: سایت دربند تهران
  رحمان خوش اخلاق سید وحید صفایی فرد بهناز ورشوساز
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  7 - The Estimation of the Recreational Value of Taq-Bostan Park in Kermanshah Using Individual Travel Cost Method
  Saeed Samadi M. Al-Sadat Nahvi M. Rajabi
  The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of liquidity on national savings in the economy using econometric regression vector and vector error correction model in 1973 to 2007. The results of the model indicate that the effects of changes in short-term More

  The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of liquidity on national savings in the economy using econometric regression vector and vector error correction model in 1973 to 2007. The results of the model indicate that the effects of changes in short-term and long-term liquidity on national saving rate is positive and significant, and with the passage of time these works are neutral.there are negative and statistically significant. Manuscript profile
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  8 - The Estimation of the Recreational Value of Taq-Bostan Park in Kermanshah Using Individual Travel Cost Method
  Gholamali sharzaei O. Moradi Y. goli
  Recreation and outing is one of the most important human needs, that the environment  has resolved many aspect of it. But real value of environment due to its public is not known. This problem has great damage on this resource, however, economists had many efforts More

  Recreation and outing is one of the most important human needs, that the environment  has resolved many aspect of it. But real value of environment due to its public is not known. This problem has great damage on this resource, however, economists had many efforts to determine the true value of ecosystems, because the market dose not have a ability  to determine to value of non-market services of ecosystems. So they uses  Non-market valuation methods. In this research, we examine the recreational value of Taq-Bostan forest park and visitors’ willingness to pay based on on-site collected data, using individual travel cost method (ITCM). Moreover, in order to estimate the demand function for visiting the park and subsequently, the willingness to pay of the visitors, Truncated poisson model and maximum likelihood method have been used. The result show that the average willingness to pay of each visitor for the recreational park under study is 11021 thousand tomans (according to 1392 prices) for each visit per year. To conclude, such willingness to pay provides policy-makers and government officials with enough justification to support the improve the quality of Taq-Bostan recreational park by at least investing on its preservation as much as the visitors’ willingness to pay. Manuscript profile