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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (1): 117-126.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.321

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Tourism ecological security assessment in Hexi Corridor region based on entropy weight TOPSIS method and fuzzy matter-element model

YANG Rongmei1(),ZHOU Hong1,2(),ZHANG Yanni1,LU Xunxian1,WANG Nana1   

  1. 1. School of Tourism, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
    2. Gansu Provincial Tourism Development Research Institute, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China
  • Received:2023-06-30 Revised:2023-07-24 Online:2024-01-25 Published:2024-01-26

Abstract:

The assessment of ecological security in tourism destinations is intricately linked to the sustainable development of tourism, and the careful selection of evaluation methods plays a critical role in mitigating uncertainties surrounding the results of such assessments. On the basis of analysis, this study focuses on the tourism ecological safety situations in five prefecture-level cities in the Hexi Corridor region of Gansu Province, China from 2011 to 2020. It constructs a comprehensive index system for evaluating tourism ecological safety and uses the entropy weight TOPSIS method and the fuzzy matter-element model to quantitatively assess the results. (1) The results of both methods suggest that there is a general upward trend in tourism ecological security in the Hexi Corridor region. (2) The trend of change in the driving force and pressure composite indices in the Hexi Corridor region is coordinated, the trend of change in the impact and state composite indices is similar, and the response composite index better reflects the results of regional government initiatives. (3) The evaluation results obtained using the fuzzy matter-element model method have higher credibility. These findings can offer valuable insights for the selection of models to evaluate the ecological safety of tourism systems.

Key words: tourism ecological security, DPSIR model, fuzzy matter-element model, entropy weight TOPSIS, Hexi Corridor