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Table 20.  Trip data needed on ecotourists
Trip identification
  • Name and social security number
  • Number in party and relationship to them
  • Vessel identification (name, Coast Guard number, or state registration number)
  • If boat owned or leased:
    • Registration number
    • Type
    • Length
    • Engine horsepower
  • Port of departure
  • Departure date and time
  • Return date and time

Sightings

  • Species sought
  • Species sighted and quantities

Preferences

  • Reason(s) for viewing and relative importance
  • Satisfaction with trip
  • Maximum willingness to pay for this trip (fee) (e.g., if your costs for this day had increased by $X, would you still have gone viewing on that day?)
  • Experience (number of years)
  • Subscription to related periodicals?
  • Own motor boat?
  • Part of a vacation? Fishing vacation?
  • Alternative use of this time (e.g., how much money could you have earned if you hadn't taken this trip?)

Money costs (expenses of only the person interviewed)

  • Fee paid for self plus others in party (number and relationship of others paid for)
  • Goods on board (food, drink, T-shirts, etc.)
  • Travel activities
    • Miles (one way)
    • Time (one way)
    • Travel expenses by category (gas, oil, lodging, food, etc.)

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