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As leisure time and per capita increase﹐and especially now people have two days off every two week, more leisure time is available to get enough relax. Since the situation changed , estimation of recreation resource become the most important and necessary work. However, the recreation effects are non-market goods which price cannot be obtained from the real markets. The value of recreational effects has to be evaluated by the non- market goods valuation approach. The travel cost method (TCM) have been widely used and improved since it was developed in 1966. TCM assumes that the cost, which includes travel cost, time cost, fees, lodges, etc., are the price of using recreation effects. Thus, the demand function can be obtained from the regression between cost and visiting times. Then the values of recreation benefit can be measured from this demand function. This study investigate travel cost of visitors in Au-Wan-Da forest recreation area, divide all data into two groups, purposeful visitors and meander visitors, and compare the recreation benefit of these two data sets by using linear-log function. The benefits of Au-Wan-Da forest recreation area are NT 1021 dollars for purposeful and meander visitors and NT 878 dollars for purposeful visitors.
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