Efficiency Evaluation of Eco-tourism in China's Coastal Cities Based on DEA Method

DOI

10.2991/hss-17.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Coastal tourism, Eco-tourism, Data envelopment analysis, Coastal city, Efficiency evaluation.

Abstract

This paper studies the efficiency of eco-tourism in China's coastal cities by using the method of Data Envelope Analysis (DEA). Five inputs including the length of coastline, number of employees in the tertiary industry, urban fixed asset investment, tourism resources attractiveness, eco-environmental attractiveness and two out puts including the total tourism revenue and total tourist amount were adopted to analyze the eco-tourism efficiency of 12 China's coastal cities. The result shows that 25% of the evaluated cities were ineffective by using DEA model. To promote sustainable eco-tourism development in China's coastal cities, some suggestions are proposed for the cities either effective or ineffective for DEA model.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yu-Qin Sun
AU  - Yi-Ming Guo
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TI  - Efficiency Evaluation of Eco-tourism in China's Coastal Cities Based on DEA Method
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SN  - 2352-5398
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