Research Article

Sustainable Tourism Supply Chain Assessment Using Hybrid Decision-Making Methods under Fuzzy Uncertainty

Table 2

The scale conversion of semantic variables.

Fuzzy scaleLinguistic variableTriangle fuzzy number

1̃ or (1̃ : 1̃)Equally important(1, 1, 1)
2̃ or (2̃ : 1̃)Somewhere between equally important and slightly important(1, 2, 3)
3̃ or (3̃ : 1̃)Slightly important(2, 3, 4)
4̃ or (4̃ : 1̃)Somewhere between slightly important and very important(3, 4, 5)
5̃ or (5̃ : 1̃)Quite important(4, 5, 6)
6̃ or (6̃ : 1̃)Somewhere between quite important and very important(5, 6, 7)
7̃ or (7̃ : 1̃)Very important(6, 7, 8)
8̃ or (8̃ : 1̃)Somewhere between very important and absolutely important(7, 8, 9)
9̃ or (9̃ : 1̃)Absolutely important(8, 9, 10)