Social Dilemmas in Nature-Based Tourism Depend on Social Value Orientations.

ABSTRACT: Nature-based tourism (NBT) is vulnerable to a rapid increase in visitors because natural resources are often open access. Market failure caused by over-exploitation of natural resources is an example of social dilemmas in common-pool resource systems. Game theory, which describes people's decision making under conflicts, has been applied to the analysis of social dilemmas in NBT. However, previous studies use non-cooperative games assuming individualistic players and discuss the emergence of social dilemmas only in a limited situation. Here, we demonstrate, by developing a two-player non-cooperative game of wildlife viewing, that the traditional game-theoretic approach fails to find social dilemmas. By analysing the competition between tour operators (players) with different social value o

SUBMITTER: Honjo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7048808 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature