Title: Evaluation method of environmental carrying capacity of tourist attraction to be developed based on marginal utility analysis

Authors: Zhenyi Wu

Addresses: School of Hotel Management, Tourism College of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, 311231, China

Abstract: In order to achieve a reliable analysis of environmental carrying capacity, the paper proposes an evaluation method of environmental carrying capacity of tourist attraction to be developed based on marginal utility analysis. Firstly, establish an evaluation index system for environmental carrying capacity and use the Simpson distribution function to calculate the importance of the evaluation indicators. Then, Cobb-Douglas marginal production function model is used to simulate the utilisation and consumption process of tourist attraction to be developed. Finally, based on the demand and supply of the scenic area environment, the entropy method is used to calculate the environmental carrying capacity evaluation coefficient. Experiment shows that the recognition accuracy of the method for indicator weights remains above 94.0%, and the fit between the evaluation results and the actual results is between 92.43%-95.48%, indicating that the evaluation results of this method are more effective.

Keywords: environmental carrying capacity; PSR model; Simpson distribution function; marginal utility; requirement; supply volume.

DOI: 10.1504/IJETM.2024.139986

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2024 Vol.27 No.4/5/6, pp.428 - 443

Received: 28 Apr 2023
Accepted: 05 Sep 2023
Published online: 15 Jul 2024 *

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