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  • Environmental Science
  • Tourism Studies
  • Regional Planning

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  • Rural tourism is vital for regional revitalization and sustainable development.
  • A gap exists in evaluating landscape performance in tourism-oriented rural areas.
  • A context-sensitive framework is needed for comprehensive landscape performance evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a landscape performance evaluation (LPE) framework for tourism-oriented rural areas.
  • To assess landscape sustainability using multidimensional indicators and the analytic hierarchy process.
  • To provide practical guidance for sustainable rural tourism development.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an LPE framework integrating the analytic hierarchy process with multidimensional indicators.
  • Applied the framework to Jiangxin Island as a case study.
  • Assessed landscape sustainability across environmental, economic, social, and aesthetic dimensions.

Main Results:

  • Jiangxin Island achieved an overall LPE score of 3.66 (Good category).
  • Environmental performance (weight: 0.34) scored 3.80, economic performance (weight: 0.24) scored 4.95.
  • Social performance (weight: 0.28) scored 2.72, and aesthetic performance (weight: 0.14) scored 3.00, indicating areas for improvement.

Conclusions:

  • The developed LPE framework is robust and provides practical insights for rural tourism.
  • Targeted strategies are needed to enhance social infrastructure, biodiversity, economic diversification, and cultural identity.
  • The framework is replicable for sustainable agricultural land management and landscape planning in rural contexts.