Tourism sustainability in Tibet - Forward planning using a systems approach

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 218-228

  Zhang, Jiekuan ^a   Ji, Mei ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a XIZANG MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

BP neural network; Evaluation of tourism sustainability; System dynamics; Tourism sustainability

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM THEORY;

BACK PROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS; BP NEURAL NETWORKS; DYNAMIC EVALUATION METHODS; PARTICLE SWARM ALGORITHM; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CHINA; XIZANG;

EID: 84928686621     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.04.006     Document Type: Article

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