Title: Evaluation method of ecotourism carrying capacity of popular scenic spots based on set pair analysis

Authors: Ling Zhang

Addresses: School of Tourism, Humanities and Arts, Heilongjiang Polytechnic, Harbin 150080, China

Abstract: In order to overcome the low accuracy of the traditional assessment methods, this paper proposed an assessment method based on set pair analysis. After establishing the evaluation system of ecotourism carrying capacity according to the influencing factors of ecotourism carrying capacity, the set pair analysis method was used to construct the evaluation matrix to determine the best and worst scheme of the evaluation index and the correlation degree, and then the corresponding evaluation results were obtained according to the correlation degree. Experimental results show that the calculation accuracy of the index weight of the proposed method is basically consistent with that of the theoretical weight, and there is only 0.01 error between them, and the maximum bearing capacity assessment accuracy is 96.6%, indicating that the proposed method has strong application advantages.

Keywords: set pair analysis; popular scenic spots; ecotourism; bearing capacity evaluation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2023.127340

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2023 Vol.26 No.1/2, pp.40 - 53

Received: 26 Nov 2021
Accepted: 14 Feb 2022
Published online: 30 Nov 2022 *