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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (3): 156-163.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20200316

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Tourist Satisfaction of Shaanxi National Forest Park——A Case Study in Taibai, Taiping, and Wangshunshan

Nan Dong1,Hong Zhang1,Chunhui Zhang1,2,3   

  1. 1. School of Geography and Tourism, Shaanxi Normal University Xi'an 710119
    2. Shaanxi Tourism Information Engineering Laboratory Xi'an 710119
    3. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Tourism Informatics Xi'an 710119
  • Received:2018-04-28 Online:2020-03-01 Published:2020-04-08

Abstract:

Objective: Three national forest parks(Taibaishan, Taiping, and Wangshunshan from the west to the east in Shaanxi Province)were taken as a case to evaluate the current status of tourist satisfaction of the national forest parks, and to identify the key factors that affect the satisfaction, in order to provide evidences for developing strategies improve the tourist satisfaction. Method: Based on effective improvement, the tourist satisfaction levels were classified by the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method in combination with the IPA analysis to find the advantage and disadvantage resources that affect the development level of the forest parks. Result: The results showed that the comprehensive satisfaction score of the three forest parks was 5.076, classified as"a little satisfied". The highest level of tourist satisfaction was on natural environment, classified as "very satisfied", and the lowest level was on tourism facilities and their quality and tourism information and communication, at classified as "dissatisfied". tourism consumption price was classified as "general satisfaction", and quality and safety of services, transportation and environment protection facilities and advertisements for attracting tourists were all classifiedas "a little satisfied". The IPA analysis showed that, 12 items were classified as "high importance-low satisfaction" and need urgent improvement, and they are ticket price, traffic price within the park, restaurant price, catering facilities, catering quality accommodation facilities, accessibility from external transport, mobile communication, WiFi access, diversity of rare animals and plants, values of cultural heritages and emergency facilities. Conclusion: In future development of forest parks, items with low satisfaction such as tourism facilities and their quality, tourism information and communication and tourism consumption price should be given priority for improvement. Specifically, we should create more tourist attractions, control the prices of catering and transport within the parks, meanwhile, it is vital to upgrade the facilities for catering and communication and improve the quality of catering and accommodation.

Key words: tourism satisfaction, forest park, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, AHP, factor analysis method, index system, IPA(importance-performance analysis)

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