Z. Chen’s scientific contributions

... Recent international studies on the topic have typically focused on, for example, the evaluation of tourism land use (Balli, Balli & et al, 2016;Lemelin R. H. et al., 2015;Ruhanen L. et al., 2015); tourism communities' participation (Lee, 2013;Yang et al., 2013); the sustainable development of tourism (Buckley, 2012;Budruk et al., 2011;Sanagustín Fons, 2011); and tourism and environmental protection (Wells, 2015;Zu-yong et al., 2013). Meanwhile, research studies in China concerning tourism have chiefly concentrated on tourist resorts (Liu, 2003;Wu, 1998); the evaluation of tourism's resources (Jiang et al., 2004;Li, 2000;Li et al., 2013); the development of tourist destinations (Ma, 2011;Ren & Wang, 2011;Wang & Zhu, 2012); tourism and urbanization (Chen & Bao, 2012;Chen et al., 2008;Zhang et al., 2008), and so on. In much of the foregoing research, deliberations on the spatial and temporal evolution of the effects of island tourism have mainly centered on the development and research of island tourism's land use, and these international and domestic studies of tourism development have generated some useful preliminary findings. ...

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Determinants of island tourism development: The example of Dachangshan Island