eprintid: 99505
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 32786
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datestamp: 2014-11-19 16:29:33
lastmod: 2021-09-24 00:43:01
status_changed: 2014-11-19 16:29:33
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Riddington, Geoff
creators_name: McArthur, David
creators_name: Harrison, Tony
creators_name: Gibson, Hervey
creators_orcid: 0000-0002-9142-3126
title: Assessing the economic impact of wind farms on tourism in Scotland: GIS, surveys and policy outcomes
ispublished: pub
subjects: HB
divisions: 40500000
keywords: wind farms;tourism;economic impact;GIS;contingent valuation;internet surveying
abstract: The impact of wind farms on the environment and subsequently on tourism is the subject of much heated debate. The research was concerned with making a robust quantitative assessment of the economic impact, to help resolve the debate and inform government policy on planning for renewable energy. In addition to a broad description of the intercept surveys and the advanced local economic models used to ascertain impact, the research details two novel elements; a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) model for the analysis of the number of tourists and bed spaces exposed to wind farms and a large internet-based survey of the willingness to pay for landscape. The research found a very small but significant negative economic impact and, on the basis of the survey information, suggests ways of minimising this impact. Both GIS modelling and internet surveying were found to be extremely useful and, it is suggested, both should become standard tools for the tourism researcher.
date: 2010-05
date_type: published
publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
id_number: 10.1002/jtr.750
uniqueid: glaseprints:2010-99505
published_online: 2009-09-25
issn_online: 1522-1970
funding_project_code: 0
funding_funder_name: Scottish Government
full_text_status: none
publication: International Journal of Tourism Research
volume: 12
number: 3
pagerange: 237-252
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1099-2340
hoa_compliant: 305
hoa_date_pub: 2010-05
hoa_exclude: FALSE
hoa_gold: FALSE
citation:    Riddington, Geoff, McArthur, David <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/32786.html>, Harrison, Tony and Gibson, Hervey  (2010)  Assessing the economic impact of wind farms on tourism in Scotland: GIS, surveys and policy outcomes.   International Journal of Tourism Research <https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/International_Journal_of_Tourism_Research.html>, 12(3),  pp. 237-252.   (doi: 10.1002/jtr.750 <https://doi.org/10.1002/jtr.750>)