A concluding overview of the application to tourism of the main methods of valuing non-priced resources
A number of possible methods of valuing non-market goods have been examined, almost all of which have been applied in a leisure or environmental quality context. They are equally relevant to tourism, given the role of the environment as its resource base. Their principal relative strengths and weaknesses have been identified and discussed above. Nevertheless, it appears that there may be some trade-off between economic rigour and breadth of applicability.