2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

Historically, recreation demand studies tend to focus on single-day single-activity trips, despite the anecdotal and empirical evidence that many recreational trips involve overnight stays and multiple activities. This paper develops a random utility model that gives visitors the choices over a set of alternative sites and trip durations for multiple purpose trips. We use a recent intercept survey of beach visitors along Lake Erie’s shoreline in Ohio (Murray, 1999) to value beach amenities. Our results suggest that accepted method for incorporating trip costs into random utility models can lead to biased estimates of the structural utility parameters and consequently biased measures of welfare in a multiple-objective trip setting for single and multiple-day users.



	Paper Title:	Modeling Multiple-Objective Recreation Trips With Choices Over Trip Duration And Alternative Sites
	Presenting Author:	Chia-Yu Yeh (The Ohio State University)
	Coauthor 1:	Brent L Sohngen
	Coauthor 2:	Timothy C Haab
	Coauthor 3:
	Abstract:	Historically, recreation demand studies tend to focus on single-day single-activity trips, despite the anecdotal and empirical evidence that many recreational trips involve overnight stays and multiple activities. This paper develops a random utility model that gives visitors the choices over a set of alternative sites and trip durations for multiple purpose trips. We use a recent intercept survey of beach visitors along Lake Erie’s shoreline in Ohio (Murray, 1999) to value beach amenities. Our results suggest that accepted method for incorporating trip costs into random utility models can lead to biased estimates of the structural utility parameters and consequently biased measures of welfare in a multiple-objective trip setting for single and multiple-day users.
	Link to paper:	Not available

	Session / Day / Time	2E / Monday / 10:15 - 11:45 am

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