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Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia
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| author | Chikumbi, Lydia Mwelwa |
| author2 | Muchapondwa, Edwin |
| author_browse | Chikumbi, Lydia Mwelwa Muchapondwa, Edwin |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/5772 Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia Chikumbi, Lydia Mwelwa Muchapondwa, Edwin Development Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. This study seek to investigate whether the optimal entrance fees for Zambia’s national parks with particular focus on the four most popular parks namely South Luangwa, Mosi-oa-tunya, Lower Zambia, and Kafue are optimal. This study collects data from tourists which it then uses to estimate the parks visitation demand functions, the price and income elasticities. Using price elasticity estimates, optimal conservation fees are estimated. The study employs the contingent behaviour approach to elicit park visitors’ behaviour in response to changes in entrance fees. This is done for both actual and hypothetical scenarios. The study reveals that demand elasticities estimated at the four parks are fairly different, demonstrating the heterogeneity characterizing both tourist behavior and park attraction and amenities. The cross price elasticity that was estimated showed that substitutability in visitation demand existed in all the four parks. This entails that increasing price at one park can effectively influence tourists to move from that park to another. 2014-07-31T12:26:37Z 2014-07-31T12:26:37Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MCom http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5772 eng application/pdf School of Economics Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Development Chikumbi, Lydia Mwelwa Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| title_full | Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| title_fullStr | Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| title_short | Optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in Zambia |
| title_sort | optimal pricing for national park entrance fees in zambia |
| topic | Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5772 |
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