動物園が地域に及ぼす経済波及効果

──ひたち市かみね動物園を事例として──

抄録

　　Using the Kamine Zoo in Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, as a case study, we estimated the indirect economic impact of the zoo on the local community. The amount of money spent at the zoo by all visitors, including admission fees and refreshments, and the amount spent in the city by visitors for whom the zoo was the main purpose of their trip, were defined as consumption activities attributable to the zoo. In addition, the annual total amount and the economic spillover effects induced by these activities on Ibaraki Prefecture and Japan as a whole were estimated using an Input-Output analysis. The amount of money spent directly at the zoo by visitors was estimated to be 319 million yen per year, and the economic ripple effect on the prefecture as a whole was estimated to be 259 million yen. The percentage of visitors who visited the zoo as the main purpose of their trip was about 64%, and the amount of money they spent in the city was about 3.3 billion yen per year, with an estimated economic ripple effect on the prefecture of 1.6 billion yen. While the above is an estimate of the value of production, this study also estimated the value of induced gross value added, induced employment income, and induced number of employees, and found that 49 jobs were created by direct spending and 441 employees were induced by consumption activities in the city. For reference, a similar monetary estimate was made based on the economic ripple effects nationwide, and the total ripple effect of direct expenditures and consumption activities combined was approximately 7.78 billion yen, and the number of induced employees was 604.

JEL Classification:R3