Analysis on the Impact of Forest Park Facilities on the Performance of Forest Park Tourism: An Empirical Study of Forest Parks in China

• Published in: Tourism planning & development Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 457 - 478
• Main Authors: Qin, Guangyuan, Cheng, Baodong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 04.07.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: China; Facility; forest park; forest tourism; panel model; Parks & recreation areas; Tourism
• ISSN: 2156-8316; 2156-8324
• DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2020.1829696

Based on data from forest parks and cities on the macrolevel from 2010 to 2016, we built panel data and evaluated the performance of forest tourism according to the aspects of tourism revenue and number of tourists. With an individual and time fixed-effect panel model, we measure the impacts of four types of facilities on the development of forest tourism for the first time. The study shows that the number of vehicles does not significantly influence tourism revenue or number of tourists, but walkways and lodging facilities do, while catering facilities significantly influence the number of tourists but not tourism revenue. Meanwhile, the impacts of different facilities on forest tourism revenue and number of tourists differ across forest parks at different levels and in different regions as well as across individual parks at the national level.