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Protected Areas in Nepal: The Case for Higher Entry Fees

Economic Journal of Nepal

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Title Protected Areas in Nepal: The Case for Higher Entry Fees
 
Creator Bardecki, Michal; Graduate Programs in Environmental Applied Sciences and Management and Professor in the Department of Geography, Ryerson University, Canada
Wrobel, Caroline; Environmental Applied Sciences and Management at Ryerson University. She is currently employed by Dillon Consulting Ltd. in Vancouver, Canada
 
Subject Economics
Forest securities; Tourism; Soil conservation; Nepal
 
Description The recent announcement by the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation of an increase the entry fees for most protected areas in Nepal has drawn a degree of criticism. This paper provides an evaluation of the decision based on past experience from other jurisdictions on the setting and administration of the pricing of access to protected areas, and a review of past studies which have provided an understanding of the willingness to pay of foreign tourists in Nepal for access to the nation’s protected areas. The higher entry fees are in line with the increasingly adopted “user pays” philosophy in the context of protected area financing. In comparable areas elsewhere entry fees tend to be significantly higher than those for Nepalese protected areas, even after the announced increases in fees. Furthermore, the entry fees generally have been far below what foreign visitors would be willing to pay. The evidence suggests that demand for access to protected areas in Nepal is price inelastic in that visitor numbers have not been negatively affected by past increases in price – a situation found in many protected areas elsewhere.The Economic Journal of Nepal, Vol. 35, No. 2, April-June 2012 (Issue N0. 138) 
 
Publisher Central Department of Economics Tribhuvan University
 
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Date 2015-09-18
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Identifier https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/EJON/article/view/13418
 
Source Economic Journal of Nepal; Vol 35, No 2 (2012)
 
Language en
 
Coverage Nepal
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