Economic Impacts of Tourism in Large Scale Protected Areas Key Figures for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Parliamentary Evening: „25 years protected areas in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – biodiversity policy as contribution to a sustainable (economical) development “ 25.11.2015, Brussels Niklas Scheder
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Economic Impacts of Tourismin Large Scale Protected Areas
Key Figures for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Parliamentary Evening:„25 years protected areas in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern –
biodiversity policy as contribution to a sustainable (economical)development “ 25.11.2015, Brussels
Niklas Scheder
Large Scale Protected Areas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
27.11.2015 Department for Geography and Geology / Chair for Geography and Regional Research 2
Why Monitoring of Tourism in Protected Areas?
27.11.2015 Department for Geography and Geology / Chair for Geography and Regional Research 3
“Any phenomenon that is not measured and reported does not exist politically. Governments, societies, communities and individuals place more value on that which is documented.“
Prof. Paul F.J. Eagles
• Self-evaluation and benchmarking
• Justify budget
• Internal and external marketing/communication
• Gain regional acceptance
• Visitor Management
Evaluation of Regional Economic Impacts: A Brief History
• 2001/02: First attempt to evaluate economic impacts of tourism withinthe Berchtesgaden National Park region
• 2003-05: Development of a standardized method for the evaluation of economic impacts of tourism in German large scale protected areas based on three case study regions
• 2006-2019: Application to 14 national parks and 12 biosphere reserves by a series of research projects
• Funding was always granted by by the Federal Ministry for Environment, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) and Federal Nature Conservation Agency (BfN) as well as some of the local management bodies
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Research Design
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Destination Survey
Short Interviews
Long Interviews
Gross Tourist SpendingCountings
& Official Statistics Visitor Days per Year
Total Income &Income Equivalents
(FTE)
Direct & IndirectMultipliers
Computation Official Statistics
Visitor Structure
Expenditures & Motivation
Visitation
Visitors with a High Affinity towards Protected Areas
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low
high
only economic effects induced by the core group of visitors can be linked toprotected areas
= core group
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Awareness and Share of Visitors with a high PA Affinity
total 728.443.100 131.302.000 384.903.000 68.762.500 25.782 4.442
*STEINGRUBE & JESCHKE (2011)**own computation based on data from STEINGRUBE & JESCHKE (2011)
Special Events: e.g. Birding
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• additional study in 2013• 74,5% of visits only because of
the cranes• 6.246 visitor days through crane
day trippers (11,5%)• 127.340 visitor days through
crane overnight guests (88,5% )
Special nature events elevatethe average PA affinity in a significant way: among cranetourists 46% had a high national park affinity compared to 31,5% annual average
Conclusion
• Regional income due to the core group of PA Visitors in MV ≈ 70 million €(not including Flusslandschaft Elbe BR & Nature Parks)
• One Time Evaluation → Continuous Monitoringe.g. Müritz NLP:
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2004 2010Visitation Days 390.000 375.000*
Share of Core Group 43,7 % 47,7* %
Total Regional Income 6.858.800 € 10.410.900* €
Full Time Equivalents 628 768**
*STEINGRUBE & JESCHKE (2011)**own computation based on data from STEINGRUBE & JESCHKE (2011)
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