doi: 10.7763/IJESD.2016.V7.757
Environmental Efficiency Evaluation of Coastal Tourism Development in Taiwan
Shu-Wei Huang1
,
Hsing-Fu Kuo2 , ,
- 1the
- 2the Department of Tourism, Leisure and
Abstract
In recent years, tourism has become the industrywhich lots of local governments promoted actively in Taiwan.Taiwan belongs to the island so that it has the abundant coastalnatural resources that coastal tourism has become a majortourism development. However, coastal areas are mostly withinenvironmentally sensitive areas, when investment andpromotion of the tourism development will impact the naturalenvironment, so it is an important topic to discuss.<br>This study attempts to research the extent of theenvironmental benefits of promoting tourism developmentactively through data envelopment analysis (Data EnvelopmentAnalysis, DEA) by the view of land development and landscapeecology.
Keywords
- Coastal tourism
- environmental efficiency
- data envelopment analysis
How to Cite
Shu-Wei Huang, Hsing-Fu Kuo, Hsiu-I Hsieh, and Ting-Hsuan Chen, "Environmental Efficiency Evaluation of Coastal Tourism Development in Taiwan," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 145-150, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7763/IJESD.2016.V7.757
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