The lake of research on the Tourism and recreation values of urban parks concern to the park types have prevented prospective policy of parks. In this study, individual as well as social values of tourism and recreation activities concern to the park ...
The lake of research on the Tourism and recreation values of urban parks concern to the park types have prevented prospective policy of parks. In this study, individual as well as social values of tourism and recreation activities concern to the park types in urban area were examined through a questionnaire. The data for this research were collected 2,727 samples by the interview in fourteen parks at Taegu city area, that parks were classified four types : Natural park, Neighborhood park, Amusement park and temple area.
Travel cost method and contingent valuation method were applied essentially. That permits the estimation of relationship between distance as a total cost and visits which can be used to estimate demand functions for tourism and recreation experiences provided by a site. Applications to four type parks have been gravity-type models have been used to estimate the use of the park, the tourism and recreation benefits of each parks per user day were estimated by the total experiences of the users. The main results in the above my study are obtained as follows ; social demand on the park can be explained well by the transformed inverse demand function according to the travel cost, willingness to pay and willingness to accept. In many studies, TCM could not be applied to the urban area in western countries but could be applied to the our country. Thus, it is very suggestive for us to estimate the demand of the park and the benefit of leisure by TCM and CVM. The estimation of the social benefit of tourism and recreation by CVM represent a little greater than the willingness to pay, but there was not difference between TCM and CVM statistically.
There were a significant difference of the tourism and recreation activity values among the park types. Estimated social benefits of tourism park was 938-1,003 thousand won, Amusement park was 562-604 thousand won and temple area was 373-449 thousand won a day, on September, 1989. and Estimated net benefits in Natural park was 4,349 won, Neighborhood park was 5,261 won, Amusement park was 3,932 won and temple area was 2,565 won a day per user. There were a significant difference of the four type parks in social benefit and individual net benefit.
This study is a small but important step in the investigation of urban park and recreation site demand and values. Many of the developments in contingent valuation method and travel cost modeling should now be applied at the urban scale parks and recreation site. Such studies will contribute significently to the improvement of methodology for tourism and recreation values measuring, especially individual and social benefits for the urban parks, and provide much needed guidence for decisions concerning the allocation of scarce tourism and recreation resources.