| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 96 === The decline in agricultural and other forms of rural employment in many countries has created a need for a diversified range of rural businesses. In most cases, tourism and recreation have become important elements of the diverse activities in rural areas of Taiwan. Although tourism continues to be viewed as a panacea for the economic ills in rural areas, some negative impacts in physical, socio-economic, and cultural environment must be considered. In particular, accommodation, one important element of the tourism system, generates various environmental loadings. Some obvious impacts are the following: architectural pollution owing to the effect of inappropriate hotel development on the traditional landscape, and the resort infrastructure becoming overloaded and breaking down in periods of peak usage. An Eco-inn, the environmentally friendly accommodation, is proposed to reduce the negative impacts from rural tourism (Kuo, 2008). However, no evaluation indicators and related assessment criteria for Eco-inn are investigated up to now.
Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the indicators that can be used for evaluating Eco-inn in Taiwan. This evaluation indicator system is based on the findings from literature review, and then the Delphi Method is employed to collect experts’ opinions. Finally, 50 of the 109 candidate indicators are selected after three rounds of the Delphi method. These indicators can be categorized into the following sectors: green building, sustainable landscape construction, organic agriculture, environmental education, local benefit and others.
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