Economic analysis of visitation in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. International standards of economic analysis and their implementation in the case of Germany.

Published by German National Commission for UNESCO, this report merges the UNESCO guidelines on standard metrics, definitions, and methodological issues with the procedure applied for German Biosphere Reserves. Considered as a national case study, the results for nature-based tourism visitor days and structures, affinity, visitor characteristics, visitor spending, and economic effects in Germany’s biosphere reserves are presented. Based on this, the report offers policy implications for long-term monitoring for Germany and for UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in general as well.