Suitability Evaluation and Development Strategy of Forest Wellness Tourist Space in the Wuling Mountain Area
WANG Yuxin
TAO Wen
ZHANG Yanting
LI Wanyang
PAN Bingchen
SONG-YANG Geni
SONG Eping
Abstract：To investigate the characteristics of forest wellness tourist space suitability distribution and the spatial suitability at the administrative scale in the Wuling Mountain Area,a suitability evaluation system of forest wellness tourist space in the Wuling Mountain Area was constructed based on three dimensions,namely,natural conditions,ecological quality,and location conditions,which combined literature analysis,the analytic hierarchy process,and geographic information systems(GIS)to perform quantitative evaluations and visualizations.The research showed that the suitable and the most suitable areas accounted for 57.805%of the Wuling Mountain Area.The administrative regions were categorized into four types:foundational cultivation zones,selective cultivation zones,stable development zones,and core development zones,according to the composite scores of forest wellness tourist space suitability.The development strategies of different types of regions were different.The research could provide decision support for promoting forest wellness tourist space suitability level and high-quality development of tourism industry.
Keywords：Wuling Mountain Areaforest wellnesstourist spaceGIS spatial analysisspatial distribution characteristics
Publication Date：2025-09-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-09-24(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 440-445 )