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Article

Suitability Evaluation of Popular Science Tourism Sites in University Towns: Case Study of Guangzhou University Town

by
Wei Guo
,
Da-Fang Wu
*,
Yue Li
,
Feng-Xi Wang
,
Yong-Qi Ye
,
Hua-Wei Lin
and
Chi-Fang Zhang
School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
*
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Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 2296; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042296
Submission received: 14 January 2022 / Revised: 9 February 2022 / Accepted: 9 February 2022 / Published: 17 February 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Geography of Unconventional Tourist Mobility: New Approaches and Methodologies)
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Abstract

With the advent of the knowledge economy, universities have increasingly important roles in cities. However, some universities and cities are still fragmented, and popular science tourism is one way to solve this. The purposes and destinations of popular science tourism differ from those of traditional tourism. Consequently, their resources have a high development value for ecological and human resources. However, research on popular science tourism in China is still in its infancy. Here, we studied popular science tourism from a geographical perspective, selecting scale capacity, environmental level, resource level, location, and service conditions as factors to construct a judgment matrix to calculate the weights of indicators at various levels. Analytic hierarchy was used to build a popular science tourism evaluation system for Guangzhou University Town as a case study and the suitability of each tourist destination in the university town was evaluated. The results show that west Guangzhou University Town is more suitable for popular science tourism than the east, which possesses more value for popular science tourism development. Finally, we give recommendations for developing popular science tourism in Guangzhou University Town.
Keywords: unconventional tourism; popular science tourism resources; development suitability; evaluation system; geographic information system; Guangzhou University Town unconventional tourism; popular science tourism resources; development suitability; evaluation system; geographic information system; Guangzhou University Town

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Guo, W.; Wu, D.-F.; Li, Y.; Wang, F.-X.; Ye, Y.-Q.; Lin, H.-W.; Zhang, C.-F. Suitability Evaluation of Popular Science Tourism Sites in University Towns: Case Study of Guangzhou University Town. Sustainability 2022, 14, 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042296

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Guo W, Wu D-F, Li Y, Wang F-X, Ye Y-Q, Lin H-W, Zhang C-F. Suitability Evaluation of Popular Science Tourism Sites in University Towns: Case Study of Guangzhou University Town. Sustainability. 2022; 14(4):2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042296

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Guo, Wei, Da-Fang Wu, Yue Li, Feng-Xi Wang, Yong-Qi Ye, Hua-Wei Lin, and Chi-Fang Zhang. 2022. "Suitability Evaluation of Popular Science Tourism Sites in University Towns: Case Study of Guangzhou University Town" Sustainability 14, no. 4: 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042296

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Guo, W., Wu, D.-F., Li, Y., Wang, F.-X., Ye, Y.-Q., Lin, H.-W., & Zhang, C.-F. (2022). Suitability Evaluation of Popular Science Tourism Sites in University Towns: Case Study of Guangzhou University Town. Sustainability, 14(4), 2296. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042296

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