Visitors to Valley of Cats program of Three River Sources NP for Travel cost models

Published: 3 February 2025| Version 2 | DOI: 10.17632/sgc7b6hc29.2
Contributor:
Xiangying Shi

Description

This data is a summary of visitors to the Valley of the cats program in Three river sources National Park in China. Variables include their origin countries, stay nights, airfares, visiting years and other information. The time span is from 2017-2023. This data can be used to estimate the value of the wildlife population and ecosystem.

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We use surveys to get the time and origin countries of the visitors, and searched on the travel website (www.ctrip.com) for airfares. We treat provinces and countries as zones and counted the number of visits. We assume the travel days from Qinghai province are 2 days, from domestic mainland China are 4 days, from Asia countries and districts are 6 days, from other continents are 8 days.

Institutions

Peking University

Categories

Ecological Economics, Nonmarket Valuation

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

32360332

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