The coast plays a significant recreational role in the nine countries around the Baltic Sea. More than 70% of the population of these countries visit the coast, representing some 80 million recreational visits annually. Understanding the values associated with coastal recreation, and the potential welfare changes resulting from improvements in the state of environmental and infrastructure conditions of the Baltic Sea coast is important for marine environment management in the region. We estimate a spatially explicit travel cost model for Baltic coast recreation to assess the welfare of accessing individual sites, identify recreational hot spots and simulate the welfare changes resulting from improvements in environmental and infrastructure conditions. The total benefits associated with Baltic Sea coast-based recreation amount to 27.5 billion EUR per year with significant variation across sites. Improving water quality and infrastructure boost the recreational value by nearly 6.2 billion EUR, an increase of about a fifth of the existing recreational benefits.

海岸在波罗的海周围的九个国家中发挥着重要的休闲作用。这些国家 70% 以上的人口前往海岸旅游，每年约有 8000 万人次休闲旅游。了解与沿海休闲相关的价值，以及波罗的海沿岸环境和基础设施状况的改善所带来的潜在福利变化对于该地区的海洋环境管理非常重要。我们估算了波罗的海沿岸休闲的空间明确的旅行成本模型，以评估访问各个地点的福利，识别休闲热点并模拟因环境和基础设施条件的改善而产生的福利变化。波罗的海沿岸休闲活动每年带来的总收益达 275 亿欧元，但不同地点之间存在显着差异。水质和基础设施的改善使休闲价值增加了​​近 62 亿欧元，增加了现有休闲效益的约五分之一。