The Establishment of Sustainable Tourism Index and Its Empirical Study

Through the literature review, the framework〝to investigate residents’, tourists’, and resource administration persons’ perceptions for the relationship between them〞is applied. Using a two round Delphi survey to conduct into expert opinion on the development of indicators.

As a result, the sustainable tourism indicators and their weights are developed. The indicator system includes six dimensions, like tourist-to-resource impact, resource-to-tourist impact, resident-to-tourist impact, tourist-to-resident impact, resource-to-resident impact, and resident-to-resource impact. Furthermore, there are three aspects, social, economical, and environmental aspects, in each dimension, and there are several indicators in each aspect.