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How Much Are Tourists Willing to Pay for Malaria Control? Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Study in Zanzibar

Tanzania Economic Review

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Title How Much Are Tourists Willing to Pay for Malaria Control? Evidence from a Contingent Valuation Study in Zanzibar
 
Creator Ruhinduka, Remidius Denis; University of Dar es Salaam
 
Description Malaria disease remains one of the greatest challenges in Tanzania; costing lives,households’ income and huge amount of public resources. This calls for a continuedeffort to sustainably control the problem, requiring significant amount of financialresources. The main sources of finance for previous efforts have been foreigndominated. In this study we test a potential domestic source of income to finance theefforts: tourist tax. We assess whether tourists visiting the country would be willing tocontribute some amounts of money to be set aside for malaria control in the country; and estimate the exact marginal amount they are actually willing to contribute. Therationale for this rests on the fact that tourists spend reasonably huge amounts ofmoney to protect themselves against mosquito bites (hence malaria) once in Tanzania(direct benefit); and that this could also be considered as an altruistic giving (indirectbenefit). Results suggest that 76 percent of our sampled tourists are willing tocontribute for malaria control programs; with an average fee ranging from US$17-29depending on the elicitation format. Key words: malaria, contingent valuation method, willingness to payJEL Classification: G13, I1, H20, H51, Q51
 
Publisher Dar es Salaam University Press
 
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Date 2016-02-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/ter/article/view/2474
 
Source Tanzania Economic Review; Vol 7, No 1&2 (2017): TER
2507-7740
0856-3373
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/ter/article/view/2474/2545
 
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