Potential suitability mapping evaluation for ecotourism development in Darjeeling Himalayan region of India

IF 2.4 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Ecotourism Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1080/14724049.2023.2272059

Debasish Roy, Priyanka Kundu, Surajit Paul, Bipul Chandra Sarkar

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ABSTRACTEcotourism is the nature-based economic sector essential for sustainable local economic development. The present study aims to design suitable sites for ecotourism using the GIS-based Criteria Importance Through Inter Criteria Correlation (CRITIC) technique in the Darjeeling Himalayan region of India. The study attempts eight essential factors for evaluating the suitability map. The suitability map was categorized into four classes: Highly Suitable, Moderately Suitable, Marginally Suitable, and Least Suitable. The result revealed 786.23 sq. km (33.81%) as highly suitable, 797.549 sq. km (34.30%) as moderately suitable, 438.48 sq. km (18.86%) as marginally suitable, and 303.01 sq. km (13.03%) as least suitable. The result shows northern and north-western parts, namely Jorebunglow Sukiapokhri, Mirik, Kurseong, Rangli-Rangliot blocks, and the north-eastern parts Kalimpong I and Kalimpong II blocks, as highly suitable zones for ecotourism development. Finally, the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and area under curve (AUC) analyses were used to validate the suitability map. The model validation with an AUC-ROC value was assigned 0.845, suggesting that the outcome is highly reliable with ground truth. The study can be helpful for policymakers to understand the spatial information of ecotourism in Darjeeling Himalaya.KEYWORDS: Potential ecotourismDarjeeling HimalayaCRITIC modelmulticollinearity testgeospatial data Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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印度大吉岭喜马拉雅地区生态旅游开发潜力适宜性制图评价

摘要:旅游业是以自然为基础的经济部门，对地方经济的可持续发展至关重要。本研究的目的是在印度大吉岭喜马拉雅地区，利用基于gis的标准重要性通过标准间相关(critical)技术设计适合生态旅游的地点。研究尝试了评价适宜性图的八个要素。适宜性图分为高度适宜性、中等适宜性、边际适宜性和最不适宜性四类。结果显示786.23平方米。Km(33.81%)是非常合适的，为797.549平方公里。438.48平方公里(34.30%)为适度适宜。Km(18.86%)为边际适宜，303.01 sq。Km(13.03%)是最不合适的。结果表明，北部和西北部地区，即Jorebunglow Sukiapokhri、Mirik、Kurseong、Rangli-Rangliot区块，以及东北部噶伦蓬I和噶伦蓬II区块，是生态旅游开发的高度适宜区域。最后，采用受试者工作特征(ROC)和曲线下面积(AUC)分析对适宜性图进行验证。模型验证的AUC-ROC值为0.845，表明结果与地面真实值高度可靠。研究结果有助于决策者更好地了解大吉岭-喜马拉雅地区生态旅游的空间信息。关键词:潜在生态旅游;大吉岭;喜马拉雅;acritic模型;多重共线性检验;

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Journal of Ecotourism Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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6.40

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Ecotourism seeks to advance the field by examining the social, economic, and ecological aspects of ecotourism at a number of scales, and including regions from around the world. Journal of Ecotourism welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research, particularly where it contributes to the dissemination of new ideas and models of ecotourism planning, development, management, and good practice. While the focus of the journal rests on a type of tourism based principally on natural history - along with other associated features of the man-land nexus - it will consider papers which investigate ecotourism as part of a broader nature based tourism, as well as those works which compare or contrast ecotourism/ists with other forms of tourism/ists.