The Willingness to Carbon Compensation and Its Influencing Factors of the Tourists in Forest Tourism Destination Based on Boosted Regression Tree --A Case Study of Yuemingshan National Forest Park
Under the background of the increasingly intensifying global climate change,frequent occurrence of extreme climate,and advocacy of a low-carbon economy,carbon compensation will bring about multiple ecological,economic,and social benefits.As one of the stakeholders,the willingness of the tourists will be of great importance for the development of carbon compensation market.This study was based on a questionnaire survey and interviews with 255 visitors from the Mingyue Mountain National Forest Park in Jiangxi Province.Descriptive statistics and boosted regression tree model were used to analyze the willingness to carbon compensation and its influencing factors of the tourists.It was found that following factors were significantly correlated to the willingness of the forest tourists to participate carbon compensation,including the occupation,education level,degree of perception of climate change,knowledge on carbon fixation function of forests,degree of the understanding on carbon offset and their trading channels,whether it was considered that tourism carbon emission reduction was beneficial to the ecological environment.