PMID- 38498585
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240320
LR  - 20240321
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 3
DP  - 2024
TI  - Sustainability evaluation of sports tourism using a linguistic neutrosophic 
      multi-criteria decision-making method.
PG  - e0300341
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0300341 [doi]
LID - e0300341
AB  - Sports tourism represents a novel industrial manifestation of the profound 
      integration between the tourism and sports sectors. The objective of this 
      research is to examine an innovative multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method 
      for the sustainability evaluation of sports tourism. The largest innovations are 
      the expression and treatment of ambiguous data and interdependent evaluation 
      criteria in the sports tourism sustainability evaluation process. On the one 
      hand, intricate assessment data is represented using linguistic neutrosophic 
      numbers (LNNs), which employ three linguistic variables to convey uncertainty and 
      imprecision. On the other hand, to effectively capture the interrelationships 
      among inputs, two novel aggregation operators are proposed. They are devised 
      based on the Einstein operations and Heronian mean operators of LNNs. 
      Subsequently, a linguistic neutrosophic evaluation method utilizing the 
      aforementioned operators is presented. Comparative and sensitivity analyses 
      conclude that great interdependence exists among five different dimensions of 
      sustainability evaluation in sports tourism, and the proposed method can reflect 
      the interrelations among inputs without redundant calculations.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2024 Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under 
      the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted 
      use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author 
      and source are credited.
FAU - Chen, Zhenyin
AU  - Chen Z
AD  - Department of Physical Education, Central South University, Changsha, China.
FAU - Luo, Suizhi
AU  - Luo S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2303-1734
AD  - College of Tourism, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China.
FAU - Zheng, Feng
AU  - Zheng F
AD  - Department of Physical Education, Central South University, Changsha, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240318
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - Tourism
MH  - *Sports
MH  - Linguistics/methods
PMC - PMC10947702
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2024/03/19 00:42
MHDA- 2024/03/20 06:45
PMCR- 2024/03/18
CRDT- 2024/03/18 13:46
PHST- 2023/05/03 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/02/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/03/20 06:45 [medline]
PHST- 2024/03/19 00:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/03/18 13:46 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/03/18 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-23-13358 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0300341 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2024 Mar 18;19(3):e0300341. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300341. 
      eCollection 2024.