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. 2020 Jun 6;81:104161. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104161
I the set of 16 main countries whose residents provided the most visits to Taiwan;
T the set of planning time periods in the month;
ci the current number of tourists from country i in 2018, iI;
xi the decision variable representing the tourist quota assigned to country i, iI;
Baseline
Cturist=i(Ci) the number of tourists in 2018;
CCO2=i(CiCO2i) tourism emissions in 2018 where CO2i is the carbon emissions per person trip in segment i, iI;
Cspending=i(Cispendingi) the current tourism spending in 2018 where spendingi is the spending per person trip in segment i, iI;
CLOS=i(Cistayi)/i(Ci) the current average length of stay of all tourists in 2018 where stayi is the length of stay in segment i, iI;
CMtouristt=iCipmit the current number of tourist on month t, tT; where pmit= the percentage of tourist from country i on month t, iI, tT; tpmit=1, iI;
Gini=τTtT|mtouristtmtouristτ|2122tTmtouristt12 the degree of inequality in the number of visitations to Taiwan over the year where mtouristtis the monthly international tourist arrivals in t, tT.