Neutrosophic Sets and Systems
Abstract
With rising living standards, rural tourism near cities has rapidly developed, playing a key role in the sustainable development of urban economies and societies. Factors like ecological environment, historical and cultural resources, and landscape significantly influence the competitiveness of rural tourism. However, current research on this topic is still in its early stages, with a focus on tourism benefits to cities, often overlooking other impacts. Rural tourism boosts employment, promotes rural industries, and increases farmers' incomes, accelerating rural urbanization and economic growth. Therefore, evaluating the competitiveness of rural tourism near cities is essential for its development. The evaluation of rural tourism competitiveness in the vicinity of cities is multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem. Recently, the Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo) approach has been used to address MAGDM. Interval neutrosophic sets (INSs) are employed as approach to characterize uncertain data in the evaluation of rural tourism competitiveness in areas surrounding cities. In this research, the CoCoSo approach is structured for MAGDM with INSs. Then, the interval neutrosophic numbers CoCoSo with SuperHyperSoft (INN-SHS-CoCoSo) approach, based on Hamming distance with the SuperHyperSoft, is developed for MAGDM. SuperHyperSoft is used to teat a set of criteria and sub criteria. Finally, a practical numerical example for the evaluation of rural tourism competitiveness in areas surrounding cities is developed to demonstrate the INN-SHS-CoCoSo approach.
Recommended Citation
Cui, Aiping and Zhiyao Liu. "Utilizing CoCoSo and Interval Neutrosophic MAGDM with SuperHyperSoft for Competitiveness Assessment in Rural Tourism of Surrounding Cities." Neutrosophic Sets and Systems 78, 1 (2025). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nss_journal/vol78/iss1/10
