A process model to assess the regional economic impacts of fishing tourism: A case study in northern Finland

作者：Kauppila Pekka^*; Karjalainen Timo P

来源：Fisheries Research, 2012, 127: 88-97.

DOI：10.1016/j.fishres.2012.05.004

• Fishing tourism
• Regional economic impacts
• Process model
• Iijoki
• Northern Finland

Recreational fishing is one of the most popular leisure activities in western countries. From a conceptual viewpoint, recreational fishing includes fishing tourism. Over the last few decades, due to economic restructuring, nature-based tourism and related activities such as fishing are seen as a tool for revitalising the economic base of rural areas. In spite of the importance of fishing tourism as an economic activity, fishing tourism suffers from a lack of basic information on the sub-regional and local economic impacts of the phenomenon and this impedes, among other things, the development of the industry. The purpose of this study is to develop a process model to assess the regional economic impacts of fishing tourism. The idea of the model is to utilise as much as of the existing statistics provided by the authorities as possible. The benefits of using the existing data are, above all, to reduce the burden of empirical data collection. Thus, the aim of the study is to create a practical model that can be applied by researchers, planners and developers. Despite ignoring multiplicative effects, the model is useful for calculating basic regional economic indicators of fishing tourism in a simple, quick and cost-effective way, using a rigorous and comparable method. The model is applied in the case of the catchment area of the Iijoki, a river in northern Finland.

• 出版日期2012-9