Estimating the economic value of ecosystem services has become one of the most fertile areas in ecological economics. In this paper, we propose a novel method of using a tourist satisfaction model to evaluate the recreational services being embedded in forest ecosystems. We establish a functional relationship between tourist satisfaction and recreational attributes based on the survey data of China National Forest Parks. The results indicate that each recreational attribute considered enables the generation of a significant amount of tourism welfare for tourists, whereas tourist congestion was found to be a negative contributor to tourists’ satisfaction. Reducing congestion from the current level is the most valued recreational attribute for tourists, and the willingness to pay for it is as high as CNY 623.18 (USD 92.29) per visitor per trip. Additionally, local and nonlocal tourists display a divergent degree of preference for the recreational attributes and their levels of willingness to pay.

Abstract-The existence of HSR has gradually become an important indicator to judge the degree of development of a city. Under the conditions of limited budget and resources, how to choose the best suitable city? In order to answer these questions, this paper studied the impact of tourism on HSR, and sorted out the city pairs using multi-criteria decision analysis method, the ranking model and geographic information system technology. This paper considered the aspects of transportation, population, economy, location, distance, congestion and tourism, with the data of 36 Chinese cities above vice provincial level. The results show that it is helpful to effectively measure the impact of tourism on the high speed rail potential demand by adding a tourism variable in the ranking model. Of course, the role of tourism cannot be generalized, but it depends on the importance of tourism in the economic development.