Demand For Recreational Services Research Articles

Analysis of the income elasticity of demand for recreational and environmental of three ecosystems in Mexico

The objective of this research is to estimate the income elasticity of demand for environmental services of three ecosystems in Mexico. In the three studies of stated preferences about the willingness to pay for an environmental quality improvement project, we used a sample size of 289 observations for the Primas Basalticos ecosystems and 150 for the La Michilía Biosphere Reserve and the Molino de Las Flores National Park. The selection of interviewees was random among visitors. To carry out the estimation, a cluster analysis was carried out to determine the income strata, where the indicator was formulated and calculated in each ecosystem for three income strata (high, medium and low) based on a segmentation of the consumers of recreational services through the two-stage clustering method. In this way, the recreational services of the three ecosystems in both cases behave as a normal good; that is, if the income of the high and middle income consumer increases, the demand for recreational services will increase less than proportionally.

Sustainable Environmental Indicators and Their Impact on The Green Areas of Ramadi City

Cities are the bedrock of growth and sustainable development. At the same time, they are centers of environmental degradation that affect many of the problems, including urban expansion towards green areas, which are natural areas within urban communities, in sites dominated by vegetation, where they are of great importance at the city and individual levels, because of their multiple functions. Therefore, the research sought to diagnose the most important problems that the city of Ramadi suffers from through sustainable environmental indicators. One of the most prominent findings of the research is that green areas are often the weakest in the field of competition among other activities, it is often devoured by residential, commercial, and industrial sprawl. As the population increases, the demand for recreational services, including green areas, increases. These services decline and their scope decreases, which creates great pressure on what is available from them, and their performance decreases.

Exploring Daily Activity Patterns on the Typical Day of Older Adults for Supporting Aging-in-Place in China's Rural Environment.

Severe aging in rural China is prompting communities to promote support for older people to age in place. The study of the daily life of older adults in rural areas is conducive to understanding their real life and demands, as well as the way they interact with their environment, to develop feasible strategies. In this study, 171 older adults over 60 years old in two different types of villages in Northern Zhejiang Province were investigated and analyzed in terms of the temporal and spatial features of daily activities, as well as their relationship with population attributes, personal competence, and subjective demands. The results show that: (1) significant association can be seen between working hours and the demand for health services, housework hours and gender and age, as well as leisure hours and ADL and the demand for recreational services. (2) The older adults appear to have inter-group homogeneity in some aspects: basic living activities, leisure hours, the gender difference in housework hours, and recreational preference, while they have higher average paid work hours and fewer leisure alternatives than their urban counterparts. Their definitions of paid work, housework, and leisure activities are vague. (3) The definition of home by the older adults in rural places sometimes seems to go beyond the scope of their own house, and the extensive definition of home may change their recognitions of some activities. They also inclined to assign meaning to a place through frequent use rather than through external definitions. (4) The weak consciousness on buying services and deteriorated financial situation hinders the older adults in rural communities from expressing their real demands. Unspoken demands include economic security, recreational choices, and assistance in housework. The results will help to provide references for the improvement of eldercare services and the community environment.

Economic estimation of forest recreation

The population’s demand for recreational services tends is growing steadily, the amount of growth varies depending on objective and subjective factors. The problem of economic assessment of forest recreation can be solved only after the recognition of recreational services and their inclusion in the economic relations between the state, the population and private business. Economic estimation of the recreational function of forests will help to scientifically justify the amount of damage to be compensated for damage caused to forests by industy, institutions, organizations and citizens. Recreational function can be attributed to natural resources, since it has a potential value. In market conditions, it is the final consumer of recreation-the population-that should evaluate the recreational function. The size of this theoretical payment revealed in the course of the study allows us to judge the value that the recreational function of forests represents for the state and the population. The inclusion of recreational services in economic relationships will allow to get an independent and objective estimation of the recreational function of forests.

Экспертно-аналитическая парадигма на рекреационном поле услуг

The growing demand for recreation and recreation has turned the recreational field of services into a very large sector of the economy. Market demand in the study is determined by the analysis of official statistics, the construction of time series, the assessment of the dynamics of indicators. The research was based on the methods of economic and statistical analysis, analytical substantiation of the findings, sample observation, comparison method, which allows to determine the differences or commonality of the object with an analog. The article analyzes the market demand for the main types of recreational services: hotel, tourist, Spa. Conclusions are drawn about the growing demand for recreational services. In the sanatorium-resort complex, the number of organizations is reduced at the expense of sanatoriums and children's sanatoriums, but this does not affect their capacity, characterized by positive dynamics. In terms of the volume of services per consumer, the steady leaders were hotel and tourist services, in the direction of the sanatorium-resort complex there is a trend of growth in the number of treated (vacationers), which indicates an increase in the efficiency of the use of the capacity of the bed capacity. Stimulating the development of the market in the recreational field of services and improving the competitiveness of recreational services can improve the state of the economy, in particular, increase the inflow of foreign capital, GDP growth, increase the number of job vacancies.

FACTORS AFFECTING THE DEMAND FOR RECREATIONAL SERVICES IN THE CAUCASIAN MINERAL WATERS REGION

Objective: to study the dynamics of the value orientations of tourists to identify the factors influencing the demand for recreational services in the region of the Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW). Materials and methods. A method of questioning was chosen for the survey, which was conducted anonymously in 2010-2015 years among holidaymakers of the CMW recreational complex on the following topics: «Satisfaction with the services quality» and «Study of the tourism social aspects». The questionnaires included closed and semi-closed questions. Results. The main purpose of the visit to the CMW region at more than 80% of holidaymakers is a spa treatment and rehabilitation, that is, in the system of values is a concern for health. And only about 15% of visits to the region have other purpose. This suggests that the main specialization of the region of the CMW continues to be a spa treatment, which is a historically prevailing direction of the leisure activities organization for the residents of Russia.

Some Considerations Affecting Empirical Studies of Recreational Use

T HE demand for recreational services provided by both the public and the private sectors has grown in recent years. Increases in leisure time and rising incomes foreseen for the future are likely to continue the need for expansion and development of recreational activities of many types. Recognition of these increased demands has led to research activity focused largely on the prediction of use of recreational facilities. In view of the considerable interest in empirical studies of recreational use and demand, some preliminary findings of one such study, in advance of a more formal and comprehensive report, may prove useful to others with projects in this area. The setting of the study is described first and then three major topics are briefly considered: (1) alternative formulations of the observation units, (2) assumptions about per capita use rates, and (3) the specification of distance in analytical models.