Gone with the wind? The impact of wind turbines on tourism demand

Tom Broekel () and Christoph Alfken

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Abstract: While wind energy production is relatively free from environmental externalities such as air pollution, it is frequently considered to negatively impact landscapes’ visual aesthetic values, thereby inducing negative effects on tourism demand. Ex- isting evidence for Germany indeed points towards a negative relationship between tourism demand and wind turbine construction. However, the existing studies pri- marily rely on interview data and simple bivariate statistics. In contrast, we make use of secondary statistics on tourism and wind turbine locations at the level of German municipalities. Using spatial panel regression techniques, we confirm a negative relation between wind turbines around municipalities and tourism demand for municipalities not located near the coast. In the latter regions, the relation between wind turbines and tourism demand is more complex.

Keywords: wind turbines; tourism; Germany; externality; spatial panel regres- sion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Q42 Q48 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08-04
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