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Hainan Island has 18 city and county-level administrative regions. The evaluation and rational distribution of eco-tourism cities are significant for tourists to choose tourist destination and the future development of the international tourist of Hainan Island. The simple and easy index system was constructed and the integrated evaluation to the eco-tourism city in Hainan Island was conducted through the methods of the combination of quantitative and qualitative evaluation, the combination of single-objective, multi-objective evaluation and cluster analysis method. The evaluation results revealed that Sanya, Haikou, Wanning, Qionghai, Wenchang, Lingshui, Baoting, Wuzhishan, and Ledong were selected as top ten eco-tourism cities and counties in Hainan Island.
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This work was supported by International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China (2012DFA11270); Hainan International Cooperation Key Project: Construction of an Early Warning Information Platform/Module based on Ecotourism Assessment and Management (EAM)—Its Application in the Building of Hainan International Tourism Island of Chin (GJXM201105).
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Zhou, Yp., Ma, SQ., Hao, Qy. (2014). Study on Evaluation Method of Eco-Tourism City to Hainan Island. In: Cao, BY., Ma, SQ., Cao, Hh. (eds) Ecosystem Assessment and Fuzzy Systems Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 254. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03449-2_12
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