A study of land degradation in Chuifen and land degradation perception among Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong tourists
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Wang, Yu- Wen
Abstract
Under positive development of tourism in Chuifen, the mountainous environment faced with many impacts. In addition, the government positively promoted “Doubling Tourist Arrivals Plan”, so that a great deal of domestic and abroad tourists gathered, the environment confronted with quite tremendous pressure. Because of the vulnerability of natural environment in Chuifen, that had landslip and landslide problems already, but also had other land degradation phenomenon. These problems may affect the development of tourism and management in Chuifen in the future. he research will make the investigation of the land degradation in Chuifen, in order to comprehend with the problems of land degradation at present. Using the questionnaire survey to the tourists of Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong, in order to analyze and compare the tourist perception of land degradation problems. The questionnaire survey has been taken with 351 valid questionnaires, which are 150 Taiwan tourists, 100 Hong Kong tourists, and 101 Japanese tourists. Use factor analysis, analysis of variance and descriptive statistical analysis to tourists of different nationalities on the land degradation perception. The result can be the reference for the development of tourism and management in the future. indings demonstrate the serious problems of land degradation in Chuifen are about the geological and the soil problems, pollution, health and landscape. In the aspect of land degradation perception, the perception of Taiwanese tourists is universal. Taiwanese tourists thought land degradation problems more serious, Japanese tourists occupy the order. Relatively, the tourist perception of Hong Kong is the least. The land degradation perception of the geological and the soil in Japanese tourists instead is higher than Taiwanese tourists. Furthermore, the land degradation perception of tourists mainly performance in the aspect of landscape, which is the most important issue must be addressed on environment management in future.
Subjects
land degradation
tourism impact
Chuifen
tourist perception
landslide
SDGs
Type
thesis
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