Quantifying recreational value and the functional relationship between travel cost and visiting national park

Mahidi Hasan Kawsar; Muha Abdullah  Al Pavel; Mohammad Belal  Uddin; Syed Ajijur Rahman; Md Abdullah  Al Mamun; Suziana Binti Hassan; Mohammad Shafioul  Alam; Rijan  Tamrakar; Md Abdul  Wadud

Quantifying recreational value and the functional relationship between travel cost and visiting national park

Mahidi Hasan Kawsar, Muha Abdullah Al Pavel, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Syed Ajijur Rahman, Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Suziana Binti Hassan, Mohammad Shafioul Alam, Rijan Tamrakar, Md Abdul Wadud

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Estimation of recreational benefits is an important tool for both biodiversity conservation and ecotourism development in national parks and sanctuaries. The design of this work is to estimate the recreational value and to establish functional relationship between travel cost and visitation of Lawachara National Park (LNP) in Bangladesh. This study employed zonal approach of the travel cost method. The work is grounded on a sample of 422 visitors of the LNP. Results showed that the total value of environmental assets of the LNP is 55,694,173 Taka/Year. Moreover, our suggestion based on visitors' willingness to pay is that the park entrance fee of 25 Tk per person should be introduced that could generate revenue approximate 2.3 million Taka/ year, beneficial for the park management and conservation of biodiversity.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Volume	1
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	84-89
Number of pages	6
ISSN	2381-7240
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Kawsar, M. H., Al Pavel, M. A., Uddin, M. B., Rahman, S. A., Al Mamun, M. A., Hassan, S. B., Alam, M. S., Tamrakar, R., & Wadud, M. A. (2015). Quantifying recreational value and the functional relationship between travel cost and visiting national park. International Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1(3), 84-89. http://www.aiscience.org/journal/paperInfo/ijepm?paperId=484

Quantifying recreational value and the functional relationship between travel cost and visiting national park. / Kawsar, Mahidi Hasan; Al Pavel, Muha Abdullah ; Uddin, Mohammad Belal et al.

In: International Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2015, p. 84-89.

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Kawsar, MH, Al Pavel, MA, Uddin, MB, Rahman, SA, Al Mamun, MA, Hassan, SB, Alam, MS, Tamrakar, R & Wadud, MA 2015, 'Quantifying recreational value and the functional relationship between travel cost and visiting national park', International Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 84-89. <http://www.aiscience.org/journal/paperInfo/ijepm?paperId=484>

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