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Abstract of Articles of TRR 28(1), 2003
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| Tourism’s
Potential for Financing Conservation Areas: A Study Of Kufri-Chail-Naldehra
Area of Himachal Pradesh, India
(R.N. Batta) |
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Environmental resources often constitute
core of the tourism product and are hence most susceptible
to overuse and misuse. While the industry uses these resources
almost free of cost, their conservation requires sufficient
money. Owing to their financial constraints, governments
often find it difficult to generate funds for protection
and maintenance of even conservation areas. It is therefore
essential to price the environmental resources in a way
that the users pay a reasonable charge for the use. Funds
so generated should be used for maintenance of these areas.
The real difficulty lies in the fact that while the prices
of common utilities like water, power, irrigation and
services are determined by the market forces, the recreational
benefits like scenery, forests, heritage and biodiversity
being public goods, are not marketed, making it difficult
to levy a price on them. Using the Contingent Valuation
Method, surveys were administered on three groups of people,
namely; the tourists, industry representatives and resident
communities (collectively referred to as stakeholders).
The study endeavors to identify the values that stakeholders
attach to the environmental resources in the area. It
is argued that the recovery of these use and non-use values
could play an important role in contributing funds towards
the preservation and/or conservation of common-pool resources.
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