Research on Ecological Compensation of National Parks Based on Tourism Concession Mechanism

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Reviewer 2 Report

Research on Ecological Compensation of National Parks based 2

on Tourism Concession Mechanism

It is a scientific exploration of the ecological compensation model under the national park tourism concession model. The authors have provided a practical paper study focusing on long-term ecological compensation for franchisees to feeding-back funds to the community and in particular constructs a quantitative ecological compensation fund allocation method. I think this paper presents an interesting topic and new visual angle with Tourism Concession Mechanism. It can be seen that the authors have done a lot of research work in this paper.

Even though most parts did a good job, there are also some places in the article that need to be revised and improved. The details are as follows:

1. As for the abstract part, some of the results need to be corrected and rewritten. Depending on the context, the back-feeding funds are confirmed. A "reasonable allocation standard of ecological compensation funds based on the concession model" has been formed, rather than "forming a concession model" described in lines 20 to 21.
2. The description of the introduction is a bit long, and it is suggested to delete some part of evolution and origin of ecological compensation mechanism and add an analysis of the reasons why national parks are chosen as the research object, such as the authors could introduce the recently issued regulations on the management of national parks.
3. Some of the concepts in the article need to be expressed uniformly. First of all, there are many occurrences of “nature reserves” and “protect areas” in the article, according to the study area of this article, it should be more appropriate to unify into “protect areas”, please pay attention to check their English expression and correct. Second, with regard to “line 88” in the introduction, the expression " a system of nature reserves with national parks as the main structures " can be referred to in the relevant references. Third, according to the latest progress in China's national park construction in October 2021, there are currently 5 national parks officially established in China, and there are 5 pilot areas. The Pilot Programs for Shennongjia National Park System should be one of the current 5 pilot programs for China's national parks, rather than one of the previous 10 pilot programs. The relevant misrepresentation is on “line 141” whichneeds to be revised.
4. The structure of the article needs to be slightly adjusted. For example, "Lines 167 to 170” are part of the purpose of the study and do not belong to the overview of the study area. It is suggested that this part should be placed in “line 134” more appropriately.
5. The Conclusion part answers well the questions raised in the introductory section, but it is recommended to suggest measures for the feasibility of the paper based on the calculated results.
6. modified and supplemented. Firstly, it is necessary to be added the relevant reference about the TCIA and CVM to support their authority and applicability. Secondly, the discussion section needs to add the necessary references.
7. The overall English expression of the article is relatively clear, the sentences are smooth, but some of the grammar needs to be corrected. For example, the predicate verb singular plural and sentence tenses in the results of part 4 need to be corrected.

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Reviewer 3 Report

There is originality in the investigated paper as there is less research report about management and sustainable development of nation parks as important tourist places. Literature review are relatively rich and updated. 

The final conclusions are a bit too general. Conclusions should more detailed refer to the results presented in the article.  It is recommended to continue research in order to improve the management of the development of parks, based on a larger number of respondents. The presented research is a good basis for starting the implementation of effective management of the development of parks and  to construct a protected area system for better protection of the local ecological environment.

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