摘要：While the demand aspects of publicly provided recreation and tourism-related travel
have long held the spotlight of research, the supply or production side remains inexact and
relatively unexplored. In this manuscript, we focus on supply components of recreational resources
and their links with tourism incidence in Wisconsin. The supply of recreation and
tourism is a complex combination of natural amenities, recreational sites, access, and private
sector business activity which is influenced by an array of factors that act to provide opportunities
that satisfy leisure-based travel demands. Measures of recreational site density that account
for both physical/geographic size and population, or social capacity are used as key explanatory
variables in models of tourism dependence. Results suggest that tourism dependence
in Wisconsin involves both recreation sites and natural amenities. Assessing tourism production
without incorporation of these non-priced latent inputs provides an incomplete characterization
of the tourism phenomenon.
