Wang Mengsha, Zuo Jiayu
School of Economy, Shandong Technology and Business University, Yantai, Shandong, China.
Business School, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 13;20(1):e0312490. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0312490. eCollection 2025.
China's island tourism is still in the exploratory stage, and the carbon emissions due to island tourism development are still prominent. This study assesses the development of low-carbon tourism on Changdao Island in China. We constructed an evaluation model for low-carbon tourism on islands based on the driver-pressure-state-impact-response model, and the Entropy Weight Method-Analytical Hierarchy Process Method was combined with the weighting method to determine the index weights of ench evaluation-indicator. The annual changes in the development level of low-carbon tourism, the weights of the indicators, the characteristics of the scores, the low-carbon development mode, and key factors of island tourism were analyzed. The results of the study showed that the indicator "impact" was the most influential element of the island's low-carbon tourism, and the ecological environment value was higher than that of the economic value. Moreover, energy saving and consumption reduction helped tourists to have a better experience, which further enabled island tourism to have a larger market size. The "response" also occupied a crucial position, where the weighted value of government planning was twice as high as that of corporate practice. The other elements were "pressure", "state", and "driving forces", which showed that low carbon emissions are an important criterion for the island tourism environment and economic factors have the greatest effect in terms of the "driving forces". The study evaluated the level of low-carbon development in island regionals across multiple dimensions, filled the literature gap, and provided a reference for the study of regional low-carbon and sustainable development of tourism.
中国海岛旅游尚处于探索阶段，海岛旅游开发带来的碳排放问题仍较为突出。本研究对中国长岛的低碳旅游发展情况进行评估。基于驱动力－压力－状态－影响－响应（DPSIR）模型构建海岛低碳旅游评价模型，将熵权法与层次分析法相结合确定各评价指标的权重。分析了低碳旅游发展水平的年度变化、指标权重、得分特征、低碳发展模式及海岛旅游关键因素。研究结果表明，“影响”指标是海岛低碳旅游最具影响力的要素，生态环境价值高于经济价值。此外，节能减排有助于游客获得更好的体验，进而使海岛旅游拥有更大的市场规模。“响应”指标也占据关键地位，政府规划的加权值是企业实践的两倍。其他要素为“压力”“状态”和“驱动力”，表明低碳排放是海岛旅游环境的重要标准，经济因素在“驱动力”方面影响最大。本研究从多个维度评估了海岛区域的低碳发展水平，填补了文献空白，为区域低碳及旅游可持续发展研究提供了参考。
