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Valuing the components of an archaeological site: An application of Choice Experiment to Vindolanda, Hadrian's Wall

Lookup NU author(s): Naomi Kinghorn, Emeritus Professor Ken Willis

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Abstract

This article details the application of the economic valuation technique, Choice Experiment (CE), to an archaeological site to investigate and estimate the value visitors place on various attributes of the site. A questionnaire requiring visitors to make choices between scenarios containing various pre-determined options for the management and content of the site was administered. This allowed the tradeoffs respondents were prepared to make between different options for the management of the site to be observed, and subsequently the utility visitors derived from these different elements to be estimated. The results show that CE can be used to obtain estimates for visitor utility for various options of the management of the site. The methodology thus has a potential use in the management of archaeological and heritage sites. © 2008 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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Author(s): Kinghorn N, Willis KG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Cultural Heritage

Year: 2008

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Pages: 117-124

Print publication date: 01/04/2008

ISSN (print): 1296-2074

ISSN (electronic): 1778-3674

Publisher: Elsevier Masson

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2007.05.006

DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2007.05.006

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