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Title: A modified cost benefit analysis of coastal development (tourism) with special reference to Longbay Beach--Negril, Jamaica

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost and benefits of the Tourist Industry in Negril over the period 1970-93, including its impact on the environment. Traditional cost benefit analysis will be used with appropriate modifications. The Long Bay stretch has been an area of rapid expansion over the last ten to twenty years. This expansion has rapidly outgrown infrastructure development and this, the potential environmental problems are already showing up in marine pollution and other forms of environmental degradation. Although there is numerous evidence of environmental impacts on tourism, there has not been a lot of work done on quantifying these impacts, and policy makers have not been ensuring that these externalities are internalized by these hotels, in an effort to make them better stewards of the environment. This study will not only look at the economic cost and benefit of the industry from the point of view of revenue and expenditure, but also the environment cost, benefit and policy recommendations necessary to accomplish this.

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Tuskgee Univ., AL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Association of Environmental Professionals, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
126022
Report Number(s):
CONF-9506115-
TRN: 95:006735-0117
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Conference: 20. National Association of Environmental Professionals annual conference and exposition: environmental challenges - the next twenty years, Washington, DC (United States), 10-13 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Environmental challenges: The next 20 years. Proceedings; PB: 932 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; TOURISM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; JAMAICA

Citation Formats

Hinds, P W, and Ngandu, M. A modified cost benefit analysis of coastal development (tourism) with special reference to Longbay Beach--Negril, Jamaica. United States: N. p., 1995. Web.
Hinds, P W, & Ngandu, M. A modified cost benefit analysis of coastal development (tourism) with special reference to Longbay Beach--Negril, Jamaica. United States.
Hinds, P W, and Ngandu, M. 1995. "A modified cost benefit analysis of coastal development (tourism) with special reference to Longbay Beach--Negril, Jamaica". United States.
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abstractNote = {The purpose of this study is to estimate the cost and benefits of the Tourist Industry in Negril over the period 1970-93, including its impact on the environment. Traditional cost benefit analysis will be used with appropriate modifications. The Long Bay stretch has been an area of rapid expansion over the last ten to twenty years. This expansion has rapidly outgrown infrastructure development and this, the potential environmental problems are already showing up in marine pollution and other forms of environmental degradation. Although there is numerous evidence of environmental impacts on tourism, there has not been a lot of work done on quantifying these impacts, and policy makers have not been ensuring that these externalities are internalized by these hotels, in an effort to make them better stewards of the environment. This study will not only look at the economic cost and benefit of the industry from the point of view of revenue and expenditure, but also the environment cost, benefit and policy recommendations necessary to accomplish this.},
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