Recreation management and economic analysis of the world heritage site using tradable license of mountain climbing

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26570025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Tourism Studies
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Kuriyama Koichi 京都大学, 農学研究科, 教授 (50261334)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 世界遺産 / レクリエーション / 入山料 / 環境経済学 / 登山

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Economic effects of inscription on the world heritage list are analyzed. , we apply quasi-experiment approach using the recreation demand for the Mount Fuji. Estimation results of the difference-in-difference estimator show that the effect of climbing fee was only 4% decrease of trips, while the effect of car regulation was 26%. Moreover, the effect of tradable license of mountain climbing was analyzed using economic simulation modeling. Simulation results suggest that the tradable license of mountain climbing has large incentive to reduce recreation demand.

Free Research Field

環境経済学