The Construction and Validation of a Sustainable Tourism Development Evaluation Model

Abstract

As climate change, food crises, sustainable development, and ecological conservation gain traction, the revival of traditional fishing villages has become an important governmental policy for Taiwan. To reduce cognitive bias, the choice experiment method was applied to construct an attribute function in fishing village tourism coupled with virtual reality headsets. Conditional logit and random parameter logit models were employed to estimate tourism utility functions. Moreover, a latent class model was employed to determine whether hetxerogeneous preferences regarding fishing village travel existed. The sampling sites were distributed across the Dongshi area. In total, 612 tourists and 170 local residents were interviewed. After incomplete questionnaires were removed, 816 valid questionnaires remained, representing 95.83% of the total questionnaires. Older residents and residents with shorter histories of education were inclined to increase land development and utilization by reducing natural landscapes; tourists preferred preserving landscapes and preventing land development. Residents with more education believed that local landscape imagery was essential. Tourists who were more educated, with high incomes, and those who were older believed that a selling platform incorporating local industries and products within the villages would be attractive for other tourists.

Regeneration and sustainable development of vernacular architecture

“…In today's era of inheriting historical and traditional culture and combining present new ideas, concepts, and technologies, as well as abstract concept design [7], architects need to establish sustainable thinking through active relationship creation, and coordinate the relationship among protection, utilization, and development. Hope to build a beautiful and ecologically livable village, while maintaining village characteristics and views while simultaneously ensuring the benefit of the ecological system under the principle of sustainability [8].…”

Preferences of Experiential Fishing Tourism in a Marine Protected Area: A Study in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

“…Chen [42] conducted a study in Taiwan showing that preferences for tourism resources related to fishing villages differed between tourists and residents. Furthermore, tourists' and residents' perceptions about the environmental impacts related to fishing tourism were found to be significantly influenced by individual characteristics such as age, education, and income.…”

Consumer Attitudes and Preferences for Healthy Boxed Meal Attributes in Taiwan: Evidence from a Choice Experiment

“…In exploring consumers’ WTP for green products, the choice experiment method (CE), with its ability to evaluate multiple attributes and levels, can combine different alternatives for important characteristics related to nonmarket goods or services, and enables respondents to state their preferences for hypothetical alternative scenarios. This method has been widely used in the fields of consumer behavior [ 42 , 43 ], sharing economy [ 44 , 45 ], green energy [ 46 , 47 ], tourism, and leisure [ 48 , 49 ]. In recent years, it has been gradually applied in the food industry [ 6 , 50 , 51 , 52 ].…”