Balancing constructability and tourist experience: A comprehensive approach to tourist attraction construction

Abstract

Tourist attractions are the most vital elements in the tourism industry system and are central to a destination's appeal. Despite the considerable research interest in tourist attractions and their experiential offerings, there is a limited empirical foundation and theoretical underpinning addressing the optimal balance between constructability and tourist experience during attraction development, which is a critical concern in industrial practice. This study contributes to the literature by presenting a comprehensive approach grounded in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to select tourist attraction construction plans and testing the effectiveness of this approach. We employ the Gini coefficient to represent the degree of equilibrium between constructability and tourist experience, and adopt the technique for order of preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS) to evaluate and rank the alternative plans. This work provides theoretical and practical implications for the successful planning and construction of tourist attractions.