Research Note: State Attributes and Destination Choice by Freshwater Anglers — An Analysis of Southeast USA

Suman Majumdar, Yaoqi Zhang and Diane Hite
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Suman Majumdar: Center for Government, Auburn University at Montgomery, 400 South Union Street, Suite 100, Montgomery, AL 36104, USA
Yaoqi Zhang: School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
Diane Hite: Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA

Tourism Economics, 2013, vol. 19, issue 3, 719-728

Abstract: This paper examines the influence of state attributes on the destination choice of anglers who travel either within their own state of residence or to other states for recreational fishing. The values that anglers place on states' social, infrastructural and environmental characteristics are estimated using revealed preference data on US anglers who participated in freshwater fishing in 12 southeast states in 2006. Estimated mixed logit models suggest that anglers do not prefer freshwater fishing in states where toxic releases to surface water and air, crime rates and the extent of urbanization are high. Conversely, anglers prefer states with more sunshine and greater recreational and forest acreages. Male, urbanite and higher-income anglers place higher values on state attributes.

Keywords: recreational fishing; destination attributes; choice modelling; revealed preference; welfare impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.5367/te.2013.0213

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