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Due to the increase of leisure time and per capita, the
people need moreleisure activities day by day. Not only
community parks and other recreationalareas can provide leisure
utility to the people, National Parks also fulfillthe same
purpose. Therefore, besides the function of ecological
education,National Parks also play the important role of leisure
activities. However,the recreational effects are non-market
goods which price can not be obtainedfrom the real markets. The
values of recreational effects must be evaluated bythe non-
market goods valuation approach. This study employes the
travel cost method(TCM) and the contingent valuationmethod(CVM)
to estimate the recreational effects of Shei-Pa National Park.
TCMassumes that the cost, which includes travel cost , time
cost,fees, fuels, foods,lodge, etc.,of visiting Shei-Pa National
Park is the price of using recreationaleffects provides by the
park. Thus,the estimated demand function of recreationaleffects
can be obtained from the regression between the costs and
visiting times.Then, the values of recreational effects can be
measured from the function.CVM provides a questionaire to ask
the potential users of Shei-Pa National Park.From the answers of
survey, the hypothetical market of recreational effects canbe
built up. Then the willingness to pay of each response can be
treated as thevalue of recreational effects. From this study,
not only the different resultsof each approach can be obtained,
the comparison between two methodsare also provided. This
study prove that TCM and CVM are both appropriate approaches to
evaluatethe recreational effects of Shei-Pa National Park.
However, the value ofrecreational effects of the Park by using
TCM is much higher than the value ofCVM approach.Therefore, this
study concludes that the people who really visitingthe Shei-Pa
National Park have more evaluation than the potential visitors.
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