The Effect of Improving Cycleway Environment on the Recreational Benefits of Bicycle Tourism

Chun-Chu Yeh, Crystal Jia-Yi Lin, James Po-Hsun Hsiao and Chin-Huang Huang
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Chun-Chu Yeh: Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Transworld University, Yunlin 640, Taiwan
Crystal Jia-Yi Lin: Department of Physical Education, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taichung 404, Taiwan
James Po-Hsun Hsiao: Department of Sport Management, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taichung 404, Taiwan
Chin-Huang Huang: Department of Sport Management, National Taiwan University of Sport, Taichung 404, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 18, 1-11

Abstract: Bicycle tourism is one of the popular physical activities for sport tourists. Since the physical environment may affect bicycling behavior, it becomes an important determinant for cyclists to choose a cycleway. Exploratory factor analysis is performed to extract the perception of environmental quality of cyclists into five main factors, including safety, light facilities, lane design, landscape, and environment cleanliness. The contingent behavior method (CBM) is adopted to measure the quality improvement projects in different scenarios of light facility and landscape improvement. The results showed that the improvement projects increased the intended number of trips and the recreational benefits of cyclists.

Keywords: bicycle tourism; environment quality; recreational benefits; contingent behavior method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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