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With this chapter we finalize the presentation of the results of the online survey by analyzing the influencing factors on cross-border tourism to protected areas in Poland and Germany. The correlation and regression analyses are based on both revealed and stated preference data on visits to protected areas in the home and neighboring countries in order to test the explanatory power of various influencing factors on the revealed and stated visitation behavior to protected areas in the Polish-German border region. Regarding the stated protected area choices, Poland’s Woliń National Park and Germany’s Island of Usedom Nature Park turned out to be the preferred destinations. All-in-all, respondents ’ preferences for hypothetical day and weekend trips are very similar. Once again, Polish respondents have a higher tendency to visit protected areas in Germany than vice versa. As expected, the distance between residents’ homes and protected areas has an influence on the number of hypothetical visits, but the level of awareness of protected areas emerged as a much stronger influencing factor. Images and prejudices play more important roles for stated than revealed preferences . Despite these findings, any suggestion as to the direction of causality remains speculative.
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See questions 15 and 16 in our questionnaire in the Appendix to Chap. 6.
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These two variables are strongly correlated (RP = 0.731***).
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Germany is objectively more expensive than Poland, but Poland is less attractive in terms of prices today due to the positive economic development in recent decades.
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Mayer, M., Zbaraszewski, W., Pieńkowski, D., Gach, G., Gernert, J. (2019). Revealed and Stated Preferences for Cross-Border Tourism to Protected Areas in Poland and Germany. In: Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05961-3_10
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