Transport infrastructures, environment impacts and tourists' welfare: a choice experiment to elicit tourist preferences in Siena–Italy

Bimonte, Salvatore, Ferrini, Silvia and Grilli, Gaetano ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-167X (2016) Transport infrastructures, environment impacts and tourists' welfare: a choice experiment to elicit tourist preferences in Siena–Italy. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 59 (5). pp. 891-910. ISSN 0964-0568

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Abstract

Transport infrastructures have been investigated as drivers of tourist demand. Specific attention has been devoted to air transport infrastructure and services. However, the literature on this issue is scanty. Moreover, few studies focus on ex-ante valuation of tourists' preferences for mobility systems. This study contributes to this literature by presenting a case study on the re-organization of the mobility system to access the city of Siena, Italy. A choice experiment is carried out to elicit tourists' preferences for distance, time, cost, travel mode, along with the environmental impact of infrastructure. The latter factor turns out to be particularly relevant in explaining tourists' choices and welfare. Furthermore, the results appear to be robust and not significantly dependent on design settings (specifically the number of alternatives). While these results only refer to a single case study, they seem to suggest that new transportation facilities do not necessarily cause an increase in tourism flows.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/sustainable_cities_and_communities
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Finance Group
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 21 Jul 2022 11:38
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 16:28
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86798
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2015.1044746

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