Abstract:
【Objective/Meaning】 The comprehensive evaluation of ecotourism resources of the scenic tourist area of Lingying Temple in Nan'an City was conducted by using the APH method, which could provide reference for the development of this tourist area and other tourist areas. 【Methods/Procedures】 By taking the scenic tourist area of Lingying Temple in Nan'an City as an example, the AHP method was used to construct the comprehensive evaluation model of eco-tourism resources. From the three aspects of eco-tourism and historical and cultural resource elements, environmental characteristics and development conditions, the 22 evaluation indexes of eco-tourism areas were selected, including leisure and entertainment value, educational value, scientific research value, ornamental value, ecological environment, supporting facilities, transportation conditions and market environment. Then, the evaluation index system was established, and the weight of each index was obtained by using the Delphi method, so as to further analyze and evaluate the ecological tourism resources of the scenic tourist area of Lingying Temple in Nan'an City.【Results/Conclusions】 The results showed that the scenic tourist area of Lingying Temple in Nan'an City had high historical and cultural value, diverse types of resources, good tourist market conditions and great tourism development potential. However, there were some problems such as low popularity, low degree of resource accumulation and imperfect development of tourism supporting facilities. Therefore, according to the evaluation results, some countmeasures were put forward for the tourism development in this region.