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Leisure Agricultural Park Selection for Traveler Groups Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

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  • Hsin-Chieh Wu

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung City 413310, Taiwan)

  • Yu-Cheng Lin

    (Department of Computer-Aided Industrial Design, Overseas Chinese University, Taichung City 40721, Taiwan)

  • Tin-Chih Toly Chen

    (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City 30010, Taiwan)

Abstract

With the widespread vaccination against COVID-19, people began to resume regional tourism. Outdoor attractions, such as leisure agricultural parks, are particularly attractive because they are well ventilated and can prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the considerations around choosing a leisure agricultural park are different from usual, and will be affected by uncertainty. Therefore, this research proposes a fuzzy collaborative intelligence (FCI) approach to help select leisure agricultural parks suitable for traveler groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed FCI approach combines asymmetrically calibrated fuzzy geometric mean (acFGM), fuzzy weighted intersection (FWI), and fuzzy Vise Kriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (fuzzy VIKOR), which is a novel attempt in this field. The effectiveness of the proposed FCI approach has been verified by a case study in Taichung City, Taiwan. The results of the case study showed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, travelers (especially traveler groups) were very willing to go to leisure agricultural parks. In addition, the most important criterion for choosing a suitable leisure agricultural park was the ease of maintaining social distance, while the least important criterion was the distance from a leisure agricultural park. Further, the successful recommendation rate using the proposed methodology was as high as 90%.

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  • Hsin-Chieh Wu & Yu-Cheng Lin & Tin-Chih Toly Chen, 2022. "Leisure Agricultural Park Selection for Traveler Groups Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-19, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:111-:d:724338
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    Cited by:

    1. Dimitre D. Dimitrov, 2023. "Internet and Computers for Agriculture," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, January.
    2. Yao Chang & Dongbing Li & Zibibula Simayi & Yiwei Ren & Shengtian Yang, 2022. "Spatial Distribution of Leisure Agriculture in Xinjiang and Its Influencing Factors Based on Geographically Weighted Regression," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(22), pages 1-20, November.

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