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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2015, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (5): 21-27.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20150503

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Environmental Suitability for Camping Tourism in Langxiang Nature Reserve Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process

Yuan Wei1,2, Zhang Jie1, Zhou Bo3, Wang Aihong4, Yu Lei2, Ma Kexin2   

  1. 1. College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University Harbin 150040;
    2. College of Horticulture, Northeast Agricultural University Harbin 150030;
    3. Beijing Haidian Gardens Bureau Beijing 100089;
    4. Museum of Chinese Gardens and Landscape Architecture Beijing 100072
  • Received:2014-12-12 Revised:2015-04-08 Online:2015-05-25 Published:2015-06-11

Abstract:

【Objective】A comprehensive evaluation on environmental suitability for camping tourism in nature reserve was conducted to fully and accurately understand the potential of resources for developing camping tourism, in order to provide scientific basis for decision making on deployment, construction scale and resource protection of ecotourism projects in nature reserve. 【Method】An evaluation index system was constructed with resource conditions for camping tourism, traffic conditions and social environment conditions of Langxiang Provincal Nature Reserve as project analytic hierarchies. The weights for index components were determined based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Delphi method. The index components were scored based on corresponding national standards (GB) and industry standards. A comprehensive mathematical model was constructed for environmental suitability of camping tourism. Criteria for grading environmental suitability of camping tourism in nature reserve was developed and used to evaluate the environmental suitability of camping tourism in Langxiang Provincial Nature Reserve.【Result】In the project hierarchies, the camping tourism resource conditions (B1) obtained the highest weight value of 0.456 7, while the social environment conditions (B3) had the lowest weight value of 0.223 7; Through the comprehensive evaluation, the total score of environmental suitability of camping tourism in Langxiang Provincial Nature Reserve was 76.722 4, falling into grade IV. This result indicated that the suitability of camping tourism in this Nature Reserve was at a high level. Among the evaluation factors, camping tourism resource conditions (B1) and traffic conditions (B2) were given high scores, 36.613 7 and 26.910 4 respectively. Social environment conditions (B3) was given a lower score (13.198 3). The camping tourism resource conditions (B1) was the best in both weight and score, followed by the traffic conditions (B2), and the social environment conditions (B3) was the worst one. 【Conclusion】The results indicated that the camping tourism project in Langxiang Provincial Nature Reserve possesses great potential for development, due to the advantages such as abundant natural and tourism resources, convenient traffic condition as well as superior water environment. Meanwhile, there were also disadvantages such as economic backwardness, lack of efficient supervision system and deficiency of management budget. The development of camping tourism project in natural reserve should follow the principle of "acting according to ability and appropriate exploitation", and take stronger measures to attract investments to provide financial security for maintaining the sustainable development of nature reserves. The qualitative and quantitative assessment of ecotourism environment conditions in nature reserves can be realized through mathematical model construction and analytic hierarchy process. This pre-evaluation method of ecotourism environment conditions is workable and worth of wider applications.

Key words: nature reserve, camping tourism environment, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), delphi method, suitability

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