A Literature Review on Evaluating Tourism Destinations

Yuyan Luo, Yao Chen, Weimin Zheng

2016

Abstract

As people’s increasing demands for tourism, tourism industry is developing rapidly, and gradually becomes one of the pilot industries of the country, so the researches on tourism have been paid deep attention by the academia, enterprises and government. Since the 1960s, the research of the tourism destinations including the scenic spots has gradually extended to the aspects of the tourism environmental carrying capacity, tourist satisfaction, resource development and ecological protection etc, so the paper should be helpful to the healthy and sustainable development of the tourism by understanding the environmental pressure, the development potential of tourism scenic spots and would review the ideas from three aspects of tourist environmental carrying capacity, tourist satisfaction, tourist resources exploitation and the sustainable development, so as to comprehend the current research status and discuss the prospects of the evaluation of tourism destinations.

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Luo Y., Chen Y. and Zheng W. (2016). A Literature Review on Evaluating Tourism Destinations . In ISME 2016 - Information Science and Management Engineering IV - Volume 1: ISME, ISBN 978-989-758-208-0, pages 329-334. DOI: 10.5220/0006449903290334


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@conference{isme16,
author={Yuyan Luo and Yao Chen and Weimin Zheng},
title={A Literature Review on Evaluating Tourism Destinations},
booktitle={ISME 2016 - Information Science and Management Engineering IV - Volume 1: ISME,},
year={2016},
pages={329-334},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006449903290334},
isbn={978-989-758-208-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - ISME 2016 - Information Science and Management Engineering IV - Volume 1: ISME,
TI - A Literature Review on Evaluating Tourism Destinations
SN - 978-989-758-208-0
AU - Luo Y.
AU - Chen Y.
AU - Zheng W.
PY - 2016
SP - 329
EP - 334
DO - 10.5220/0006449903290334