Tourists Initial Optimal Shunt Scheme Using Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm

With the rapid development of tourism, it not only brings great economic benefits, but also causes some problems. Overcrowded visitors reduce tourists satisfaction and bring about negative impact on ecological environment. Designing a reasonable tourists initial shunt scheme can help the management of the scenic area to achieve the goal that balances the economic development and environment protection. In this paper, for the sake of alleviating congestion in scenic area, a tourists optimal shunt scheme is proposed. Instead of defining single optimal objective, the proposed scheme taking two objectives into account, which are minimizing the total load balance degree of the scenic spots and one spot’s load degree. In order to estimate optimal shunt ratios, a multi-objective optimization based on genetic algorithm is used to find the Pareto solution. Then a simulation model is built to investigate and verify the scheme. Finally, a comparison analysis validates the efficiency of the model in mitigating the load of the scenic spots in Jiuzhai Valley.