Wetland Ecotourism Research Articles

Effect of Project Planning on Project Performance; A Case of Nyandungu Urban Wetland Ecotourism Project

Effect of Project Planning on Project Performance; A Case of Nyandungu Urban Wetland Ecotourism Project

Switching Intention and Behaviors to Wetland Ecotourism after the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Perspective of Push-Pull-Mooring Model

This study used a push–pull–mooring model (PPM model) to build an integrated model to explain the influencing factors of tourists’ switching intention to wetland ecotourism after the COVID-19 pandemic. The push effect is crowding perception, the pull effect is nature-based destination attractiveness, and the mooring effect is the risk perception of COVID-19. The study collected 551 valid research samples by questionnaire survey in two world-class wetlands in Taiwan. The results of the regression analysis showed that push, pull, and mooring influenced tourists’ switching intention to wetland ecotourism. Among them, the mooring effect regulated the relationship between the push effect and switching intention to wetland ecotourism, but did not regulate the relationship between the pull effect and switching intention to wetland ecotourism. Finally, the switching intention to wetland ecotourism further influenced wetland ecotourism behaviors. It is expected that people can go outdoors after the COVID-19 pandemic and bring substantial economic benefits of tourism to wetland ecological attractions in Taiwan.

Monitoring and Evaluation Practices and Performance of the Renewable Energy Projects in Rwanda: A Case of Nyandungu Urban Wetland Eco-Tourism Park, the Engie Energy Access Rwanda Programme

This research analyzed the influence of monitoring and evaluation practices on project of Nyandungu Ecotourism Wetland Park project. Specifically, the study focused on the effect of community involvement, technical expertise, and management involvement on project performance of Nyandungu Ecotourism Wetland Park Renewable Energy Project. The study will be of significance to Government Projects, Researcher, Mount Kenya University, Nyandungu Ecotourism Wetland Park Renewable Energy to enhance project performance. The study used program and results based management theories. The study used descriptive research diagram in answering investigational questions. Target populace was 132 and pattern of 100 respondents of Nyandungu Ecotourism Wetland Park renewable energy project was sampled. The study further adopted probability sampling technique with the adoption of easy random sampling. A questionnaire was used to generate required statistics for analysis. Drop and pick out up later method was further used to accumulate facts. A Pre-test was carried out to decide reliable and valid research instruments. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20.0 was beneficial to evaluate information. The findings indicated that majority of respondents (85.3% )  agreed that community involvement has positive effect on project performance, 84.2% of respondents agreed that participatory observing and approach was used in deciding objectives, confirmed, 83.8% consented that participation of stakeholders in M&E influence effectiveness of a development intervention, and 91.2% of respondents disagreed that community members are involving in monitoring and evaluation, planning and budgeting. The overall mean was 2.4744 and standard deviation was 1.1684) in stimulating project performance. The study concluded that putting adequate community involvement would improve project time, cost and quality in Rwanda. The study suggested that management should involve community members are in monitoring and evaluation, planning and budgeting at project initial stages. Management should involve stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation decision making procedures at all levels. Project management should hire skilled and experienced personnel about monitoring and evaluation. Project management should carry out training for staff members. The study suggested to analyse effect of community involvement on economic growth of all rural areas in Rwanda. Keywords: Monitoring and Evaluation Practices, Performance, Renewable Energy Projects, Rwanda

Wetland Ecotourism Development Using Deep Learning and Grey Clustering Algorithm from the Perspective of Sustainable Development.

The purpose is to promote the sustainable development of wetland ecotourism in China and plan the passenger flow in different tourism periods. This work selects Zhangye Heihe wetland ecotourism spot as the research object. Firstly, the two single wetland ecotourism Demand Prediction Models (DPMs) are proposed based on the time series of the optimized Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm (FCA), grey theory, and the Markov Chain Method. The proposed wetland ecotourism DPM simulates and predicts the ecotourism passenger flow of wetland-scenic spots and verifies the maximum passenger flow. Then, a hybrid model combining the above two single models is proposed, namely, the wetland ecotourism DPM based on an optimized fuzzy grey clustering algorithm. Further, the proposed three models predict the passenger flow in wetland ecotourism spots from 2015 to 2019. A wetland Water Quality Evaluation (WQE) model based on Deep Learning Backpropagation Neural Network (Deep Learning (DL) BPNN) is proposed to evaluate the water quality in different water periods. The results show that the hybrid model's Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) are 1.25% and 0.2532. By comparison, for two single models, the MAPE is 11.67% and 1.45%, respectively, and the RMSE is 0.2526 and 0.1652, respectively. Therefore, the mixed hybrid has the highest accuracy and stability. The water quality of the scenic spot in the wet season is obviously better than that in the dry season and flat season. It is suggested that the natural environmental factors, such as water quality and passenger flow in different periods, should be considered when formulating ecotourism development strategies.

Exploring the Influence of Multidimensional Tourist Satisfaction on Preferences for Wetland Ecotourism: a Case Study in Zhalong National Nature Reserve, China

Tourist satisfaction, as a principal element for sustainable development of wetland ecotourism and destination competitiveness, has received extensive attention in the research on its impact on behavioral intention. This paper employs choice experiment to study tourist satisfaction as an important motivation for behavioral intention of willingness to pay and preference on wetland ecotourism improvement policy, and explores the potential causal mechanism. A 15-item scale is designed to measure tourist satisfaction and four constructs are defined. Under the framework of discrete choice modeling, unidimensional and multidimensional data are incorporated as the standard for population segmentation and explanatory variables. The empirical results estimated by three methods basically confirms the proposed hypotheses and indicate that tourist satisfaction has a certain effect on tourist preference of wetland ecotourism and there is significant preference heterogeneity among groups with different satisfaction. Besides, different dimensions of satisfaction have a different effect on tourist preference of wetland ecotourism. This study enriches the studies on non-market value evaluation and preference motivation in the field of ecotourism, because tourist satisfaction may explain some unobserved preference heterogeneity. More effective wetland ecotourism policies can be designed when data on satisfaction are included.

Evaluation of lake wetland ecotourism resources based on remote sensing ecological index

The quality of ecological environment is not only an important basis for judging the sustainable development of economy but also an important factor to complete the construction of ecological civilization. Therefore, this paper puts forward the application of remote sensing ecological index to evaluate the lake wetland ecotourism resources. In this study, the Manas Lake wetland area in Xinjiang was taken as the research object, and based on the remote sensing ecological index evaluation method, the ecological resources of Manas Lake wetland were evaluated. The results showed that RSEI (Remote Sensing Based Ecological Index) showed a steady upward trend from 2000 to 2016, which reflected that the ecological environment of the study area had been improved in the past 20 years; the area with poor ecological environment condition was 4.02 km2, the area improved was 8.18 km2, and the area with little change or unchanged was 3543 km2; the area around the downstream corridor was the main area with poor ecological quality, around the lake, and far away surrounding the area for improvement. Climate change and human activities have a common effect on the ecological environment of Manas Lake wetland. Increasing human activities are the main reason for wetland degradation. Over the years, extensive agricultural development has caused serious imbalance among population, economy, and ecological environment in Manas River Basin. From the perspective of optimizing the allocation of water resources, it is proposed that the ecological value and sustainable development of tail lake wetland should be paid attention to while the large-scale development of water and soil resources in the main source river basins.

Study on the space-time distribution and sustainable development of wetland ecotourism resources in Shandong Province

Wetland, ocean, and forest are regarded as the world’s three major systems. Among them, wetland has always been regarded as one of the signs of sustainable development of urban ecological environment. Therefore, its ecological problems, rational development and protection have become the focus of the sustainable development of wetlands and even cities. This study took wetlands in 17 cities in Shandong Province as the research object, then collected relevant data on the area of various types of wetlands in Shandong Province in 2008 and 2013 and analyzed the changing trend of wetland area in Shandong Province in recent 5 years by using methods including multivariate statistics and GIS space analysis, and raised some ecological problems at the same time. The results showed that: 1) In terms of time, the wetland area in Shandong Province has been reducing in the past five years. Compared with 2008, the wetland area in Shandong Province decreased by 24.57% in 2013; 2) In terms of space, the wetland area in coastal areas was seriously degraded, with a reduction rate of more than 50%; 3) In terms of wetland types, natural wetlands such as lakes and rivers were decreasing year by year. They have respectively reduced by 1.02×105 hectares and 4.21×105 hectares while the artificial wetland has increased by 5.33×105 hectares, which means some natural wetlands have been converted into artificial wetlands. The most obvious was the construction of wetland parks; 4) There were a series of ecological problems in the wetlands in Shandong Province, such as blind reclamation and deterioration of the quality of water resources.

Which is more Important, Ecological Conservation or Recreational Service? Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Wetland Nature Reserve Management

To achieve the common goal of sustainable development of wetland ecotourism, the nature reserve managers face the challenge of balancing ecological protection and tourism demand. To make appropriate management strategies, more information is needed to understand how visitors evaluate the ecological and recreational attributes, as well as the willingness to pay and preferences. Choice experiment (CE) was employed to explore the trade-offs of visitors between ecological conservation and recreational services in Zhalong National Nature Reserve (ZNNR) in Northeast China, and the analysis of socioeconomic and attitudinal factors was added to reveal the preference heterogeneity. The results showed that biodiversity was the most highly valued attribute and increasing biodiversity or/and environmental education facilities were both valuable scenarios for wetland development. The differentiation of preferences is influenced by both socioeconomic and attitudinal factors including gender, income, age, work situation and environmentally responsible behavior. Two classes of visitors were divided through preference heterogeneity for each attribute, i.e. eco-friendly and price sensitive. These results could help to formulate reasonable policy implications and management strategies for wetland ecotourism. The proposed research framework clarifies the procedure and application of CE and provides a new perspective for trade-off problem in wetland nature reserve management.

Study on Ecological Resources and Tourism Sustainable Development of Xixi Wetland

With the rapid development of the urbanization in China, the wetland ecotourism has become a popular form of travelling for the most of consumers in recent years. The development of the wetland ecotourism not only can enrich the ways of tourism and promote the economic development of the wetland areas, but also can establish a foundation for the comprehensive development of tourism industry. However, as the development of tourism industry in China is not long enough, at present, the wetland ecotourism is still making process. Besides that, due to the lack of scientific understanding, people often ignore the influence and destruction of the tourism ecological resources caused by travelling. And people also ignore the psychological capacity and economic demand of the residents who live in the wetland. This paper intends to carry out a field study on Xixi Wetland to explore the existing problems of the ecotourism on it. And then, according to the result of this research, the corresponding countermeasures of ecotourism are provided based on the analysis of the sustainable development of ecotourism of Xixi Wetland.

Listen to the Voices from Tourists: Evaluation of Wetland Ecotourism Satisfaction Using an Online Reviews Mining Approach

Scientific evaluation of tourist satisfaction could contribute to the sustainable development of wetland ecotourism. With the development of Web 2.0, online travel reviews increase significantly which provide valuable information for evaluating tourist satisfaction. Hence, this study aims to evaluate the tourist satisfaction of wetland ecotourism in Zhalong National Nature Reserve (ZNNR) based on online travel reviews. Tourist satisfaction evaluation model and sentiment analysis were applied to calculate satisfactions of evaluation factors that were uncovered based on latent dirichlet allocation model. The results suggest that total satisfaction was 0.614, at the fundamentally satisfied level. Moreover, we identified 11 controllable evaluation factors that were key for ZNNR to manage interaction with tourists, and further aggregated these factors into three categories: ecotourism experience, natural resource and cultural resource. Especially, importance-performance analysis further identified the most important evaluation factors according to four-quadrant weight-satisfaction matrix. The proposed analytical framework expands the understanding of the methodological challenges and offers novel perspectives for evaluating the tourist satisfaction. These findings could provide useful insights for the sustainable development of ecotourism and effective management of wetlands.

Analysis on the Eco-tourism Protection and Development Mode of Boluo Lake Wetland Nature Reserve in Jilin Province

The Boluo Lake wetland nature reserve is Located in the northwest of Changchun city in Jilin province, which is rich in biodiversity and unique wetland ecotourism landscape. This paper firstly introduces the tourism resources of the Boluo Lake wetland nature reserve. Secondly, analysis on the tourism development status of the nature reserve and Find problems. Finally,we put forward the protection and development mode of ecotourism in Boluo lake wetland nature reserve.

Study on sustainability of wetland ecotourism scenic spot by SWTO analysis

Study on sustainability of wetland ecotourism scenic spot by SWTO analysis

Economic impact of wetland ecotourism: An empirical study of Taiwan's Cigu Lagoon area

The main purpose of this research is to evaluate how the different economic impact analytical models could be utilized to estimate the multiplier effects of ecotourism. The wetland ecotourism in Taiwan's Cigu Lagoon area was used as the sample to explain the different aspects of consideration for the case study. Generally, when applying the models, researchers have to consider the problems of data collection, the strengths and weaknesses of the economic model, the operational cost, and the spatial scale of sites. This study suggests the use of a comprehensive approach to evaluate the most suitable model of economic impact analysis. A fairly large gap was found when the income multipliers obtained through the Ad hoc model of other previous case studies were compared with that of Taiwan's Cigu wetland ecotourism. This is because the local tourism industry in the Cigu Lagoon area were mainly composed of small and medium-scale enterprises, and most of the materials used in the tourism industry are from the local economy. In addition, the results show that seafood restaurants were found to have the most significant contribution to the local economy. This sector contributed 50% to the income multiplier.

한국의 람사르 습지 생태관광지의 지속가능성 연구 : 평가지표와 측정변수 목록화

이 연구에서는 한국의 람사르 습지 생태관광지의 지속가능성에 대한 개념적 틀(framework)을 구축하여 평가 지표로 삼고 그 지표에 따른 측정변수의 목록을 작성하였다. 생태관광의 지속가능성의 개념적 틀은 환경적, 사회문화적, 경제적 지속가능성 그리고 관광객의 지속가능성으로 구분하였다. 환경적 지속가능성에 대한 평가 지표는 생태적 가치, 환경보호, 환경교육, 친환경시설 등으로 분류하여 30개의 측정변수를 제시하였다. 사회문화적 지속가능성에 관한 평가지표는 거버넌스, 지역사회, 관광객과 지역주민과의 관계 등으로 분류하고 27개의 측정변수를 추출한 것이다. 경제적 지속가능성은 경제적 효과, 보전과 연계된 경제영향으로 구분하고 17개의 변수를 제시하였다. 마지막으로 관광객에 관한 지속가능성 지표는 관광만족도 개선, 관광객의 환경인식 및 행동개선으로 분류하고 24개의 측정변수를 목록화한 것이다. 후속연구에서는 델파이, 설문조사, AHP 등을 활용하여 정교한 평가 측정변수를 확정하고 가중치를 측정하여 한국의 람사르 생태관광지 22곳의 지속가능성을 평가하여 비교할 것이다. 그러므로 이 연구는 한국의 람사르습지 생태관광지에 대한 현재 상황을 평가측정하고 미래차원에서 모니터링의 기준으로 삼고자 하는 지속가능성 평가 지표를 개발하기 위한 선행연구에 해당한다고 말할 수 있다.

On Wetland Protection and Tourism Sustainable Development

This paper introduces the environmental characteristics of wetland, analyzes the significance of wetland ecotourism development, puts forward some principles of wetland tourism development, and constructs the sustainable development model of wetland and tourism.

Wetland tourism in natural protected areas: Santay Island (Ecuador)

The main objective of this paper is the analysis of the relationship between two important factors in the decision making process of a tourist when choosing a destination: motivation and satisfaction. This research is done in a wetland protected area named Santay Island located in Ecuador. The results show evidence that there are two motivational dimensions to visit the place: an Ecological-Hedonic and a Social-Gastronomic motivation. The first dimension is the most important, which is a very common fact in these types of destinations. Both dimensions discriminate each other in the degree of satisfaction perceived by the visitors. The analysis of the motivations allows identifying three different typologies of visitors that are of great importance to segment the market in order to consolidate Santay Island as a wetland ecotourism destination: The eco-social-hedonic tourist, the eco-hedonic tourist and the social tourist. The conclusions highlight the need of considering the motivational profile of the satisfied tourist as managerial instrument to the community of Santay in order to help them obtain better profits, not only economic, but social and cultural benefits.

Research on the Community Participation Strategy of Luoshijiang Wetland Ecotourism

Wetland ecotourism is a sustainable traveling form, and community participation is an important part of the development of wetland ecotourism. This study is based on detailed analysis on the current ecotourism participation situation in Luoshijiang wetland community, gives the community participation development strategy for ecotourism in Luoshijiang wetland, the studied strategy emphasis is expressed in three aspects: the first is how to extend the breadth and depth of ecotourism participation of community residents; the second is having ability construction to community residents at wetland; the third one is establishing reasonable benefit distribution mechanism to protect the benefit of peasants in community participation. The research is of great importance to control the ecological security of Erhai, Dali, promote economic development and social stability in the community, enrich ecotourism products and enhance the attractiveness of tourism.

Wetland-based tourism in South Korea: who, when, and why

We investigated the trends and characteristics of individuals visiting four wetlands in South Korea. A total of 21,647,242 people visited the four wetlands from 2007 to 2012. The number of visitors increased significantly after the tenth Conference of Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands held in South Korea in 2008. Visitor data showed statistical evidence of seasonality in visits, with visitor numbers peaking in autumn of each year in all wetlands, probably because of the seasonality of natural resource availability in wetlands. Our findings are based on a self-administrated questionnaire survey completed by 600 respondents (150 from each wetland). Most respondents visited wetlands for sightseeing (50.94 %) or educational purposes (36.42 %) and remained for less than 2 h. Visits were primarily spent participating in educational and sightseeing programs. Thus, wetland visitor centers have an important role in wetland ecotourism and education. Guided educational and sightseeing programs for visitors, including independent, group, and family tourists, are helpful for effectively raising awareness of wetlands and distributing ecotourism concepts. Our study demonstrates that visiting wetlands is becoming an increasingly popular form of ecotourism in South Korea, supporting the importance of preserving this fragile ecosystem service.

Comparative Study on Eco Tourism Development Potential between the Yellow River Delta and the Nansi Lake Wetland Nature Reserve

The wetland nature reserve has the contradiction between tourism development and environmental protection. Eco tourism is the route one must take to realize the tourism sustainable development of area wetland nature reserve. Measuring the potential development of ecological tourism through quantitative method has great reference value and guiding significance for promoting the rational tourism planning and development of wetland nature reserve. This paper selects three aspects of ecological tourism demand potential, ecological tourism supply potential, ecological tourism security potential, which influence and restrict the ecological tourism potential of nature reserve to construct evaluation index system of the potential for wetland eco tourism development, and uses the set pair analysis method to carry out a comparative evaluation between the Yellow River Delta and the Nansi Lake Wetland Nature Reserve. Studies shows that there are some differences in ecological tourism demand potential, ecological tourism supply potential and ecological tourism security potential.

A Simple Analysis on Wetland Ecotourism Sustainable Development - Case Study for Jinyin Lake in Wuhan

Wetland ecotourism was very important for the development of its sustainable development. Jinyin Lake of Wuhan city had immense waters, possessing typical wetland ecotourism landscapes and wetland animal and plant resources. Based on analysis of wetland ecotourism resources and environment of Jinyin Lake, a SWOT analysis of sustainable ecotourism development was conducted. Meanwhile, the ecotourism products and design were recommended to make sure its sustainable development in the end.