The evolutionary game of national park tourism development and governance: public supervision, government regulation and tourism enterprise

Shiqi Yuan (), Jinjing Zhu (), Chao Ma () and Zuomiao Xie ()
Additional contact information
Shiqi Yuan: Minzu University of China
Jinjing Zhu: St. Bonaventure University
Chao Ma: Linyi University
Zuomiao Xie: Minzu University of China

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2025, vol. 27, issue 6, No 40, 13335-13370

Abstract: Abstract The public is increasingly a critical stakeholder of national parks. It has become a governance strategy in many countries to incorporate public participation into the supervision system of national parks. This paper uses evolutionary game theory to study the feasibility of public supervision and analyzes the impacts of penalty and reward mechanisms on the dynamic evolutionary game process and result. Evolutionary results show that: (1) public supervision can help ease the pressure of government regulation, but it can’t solve the problem of cyclical fluctuations in the overdevelopment of national park tourism. (2) Under the dual supervision of the public and the government, the government evaluates the probability of overdevelopment of enterprises and dynamically adjusts the penalty amount, which can solve the cyclical fluctuations of national park tourism development. (3) The more rewards given by the local government to the tourism enterprise for developing national parks in the mode of sustainable tourism are not always better. The relationship between the reward amount and the probability of sustainable development of enterprises is non-monotonic.

Keywords: National park; Public supervision; Government regulation; Tourism development; Evolutionary game theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-024-04458-z Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:endesu:v:27:y:2025:i:6:d:10.1007_s10668-024-04458-z

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10668

DOI: 10.1007/s10668-024-04458-z

Access Statistics for this article

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development is currently edited by Luc Hens

More articles in Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().