A Model and Its Application of Quantitative Evaluation for Exploitable Value of Hot Spring Landscape Resources

The accurate and objective quantitative evaluation of hot spring landscape resources is helpful to understand the value of the resources, has great practical significance for their protection, exploitation, and utilization, and is also an important basis for the exploitation and planning of the hot spring resources. On the basis of summarizing and analyzing previous research works, this study expounded the research status and significance of the exploitation of spring landscape resources, elaborated the development, background, current status, and future challenges of the quantitative evaluation of landscape resources’ exploitable value, introduced the methods and principles of analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy synthesis process, formulated the evaluation index scoring standards for the exploitable value of hot spring landscape resources, analyzed the grading standard of comprehensive evaluation value, conducted the process analysis of quantitative evaluation of the exploitable value of hot spring landscape resources, established the evaluation index system of the exploitable value of hot spring landscape resources, determined evaluation index weight coefficient, constructed a quantitative evaluation model of the exploitable value of hot spring landscape resources, and finally carried out a case application and its result analysis by taking Chicheng Hot Spring in Chicheng County, Hebei Province, northern China as an example. The study results show that the three categories of factor weights in the subobjective layer of comprehensive evaluation system of hot spring landscape resources are landscape resource quality, environmental conditions, and resource exploitation and construction conditions. The purpose of quantitative evaluation of hot spring landscape resources is to use mathematical methods to quantify the fuzzy attributes of landscape resources so that some vague evaluations become relatively accurate, thereby improving the objectivity and reliability of evaluation results. Therefore, the establishment of a tourism preference index based on the hot spring tourism market and the subjective will of tourists as the evaluation standard has played a role in market restrictions, combining the evaluation of hot spring tourism resources with the dynamics and trends of the hot spring tourism market, and establishing comprehensive evaluation system of hot spring landscape resources. Those results of this study are expected to provide a reference for further research on the quantitative evaluation model for exploitable value of hot spring landscape resources.