Determination of The Economic Value of The Beyda？lar？ National Park Using Travel Cost and Contingent Valuation Methods

Environmental assets like forests, national park and ecosystems provide raw materials for the economic activities. At the same time environmental assets and ecosystem services are capital stocks. Beside these services, it is in the question that ecosystems can be benefited for recreational use. Utilities and services provided by ecosystems cannot be priced directly through the market. In order to valuate ecosystems, non-market valuation techniques are required. Services and utilities provided by ecosystems can be separated as use and non-use values. In this paper, use value for recreational purposes and non-use value of Beyda？lar？ Sahil Milli Park？ is calculated by using Travel Cost Method (TCM) and Contingent Valuation Method (CVM)