Utilizing CoCoSo and Interval Neutrosophic MAGDM with SuperHyperSoft for Competitiveness Assessment in Rural Tourism of Surrounding Cities

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. 

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14232771