Economic evaluation of eco-tourism for zawita forest location in Duhok Province Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Joint Authors

Akrawee, Zeki Matti
Hamad, Ikhlas Mamand

Source

مجلة جامعة دهوك

Publisher

University of Duhok

Publication Date

2016-06-30

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

7

Main Subjects

Natural & Life Sciences (Multidisciplinary)

English Abstract

This study covered Zawita forest Location in Duhok province for estimating the Eco-tourism demand function by using travel cost model.

The questionnaire method was used for collecting required data for estimating the Eco-tourism demand function, which included the relationship between visitors rate as a dependent variable and the independent following variables: Travel cost from place of residence, cost of travel within the selected tourist spots, cost of boarding and lodging, other miscellaneous expenditure, part of travel cost incurred within the selected tourist spot, Per-capita household income per day corrected for number of days spent in the selected tourist spot, reason for visiting the selected tourist spot, education levels, age (years), and gender.

The statistical analysis was conducted to find the relationship between the dependent variable in Eco-tourism demand function and the other independent variables using more than relationship, done to the best of those relations.

Simple and multiple regressions were used; moreover the logarithmic transformation of data was done for the values of the dependent variable and introduced in the analysis.

Thus, the best results were obtained presented for the selected location in this study and the questionnaires included (100) sample, however some observations have been excluded, as a result of incompleteness accuracy of the data which have been recorded in those forms.

The results showed high relationship between the demand for eco-tourism and the other independent variables in the location, referred to that the values of (R2) for selected location was (75.80 %), so the results of simple regression were presented in tables to shows the different relationships between the visitation rate and the independent variables.

Conclusions and recommendations were presented to develop the aspects of ecotourism in Duhok province / Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-797376

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