The Model on Estimating Economic Benefit of Nature-based Tourism Services of Territories of National Parks, Latvia

摘要

National Park is a protected area managed mainly for ecosystem protection and recreation. Park-related tourism can provide a range of benefits to destinations individuals, businesses, surrounding communities and national as well as regional and local economies. Tourism planning is the central issue which seeks to maximize the economic benefit and minimize the costs of tourism. In the base of it there should be researches and economic calculations that in territories of NPs in Latvia are not done before. That is why is clarified the scientific praxis about economic benefit, impact, value and indicators of nature-based tourism as well as calculation methods. By software STELLA on the basis of scientific arguments and findings is created an estimating model (map) of possible economical benefit of nature based tourism in NP's of Latvia. In conclusion there is shown an example how stochastic financial data of economic benefit is used in modelling results of calculations.