| Mass tourism activities are being carried out worldwide along with the improvement of social civilization and the people’s living standard.Currently,under the background of global economic growth is weak,the global tourism economy is becoming an important driving force for global economic recovery.However,the tourism has created enormous economic benefits,but also brought challenges to the protection of the ecological environment.As a resource oriented tourism destination,the rapid development of Jiangxi’s tourism economy is largely due to its beautiful ecological environment,and the "Jiangxi Scenery Unique Beauty" is widely popular.Under the background of creating two "Jiangxi model" of "beautiful China" and the construction of ecological civilization,research the relationship between tourism development and ecological environment protection has important practical significance for coordinated development of Jiangxi’s tourism economy and ecological environment.By collecting and summarizing about the relationship between tourism economy and ecological environment of the research results,combined with the actual situation of Jiangxi province tourism economy and ecological environment,under the guidance of the theory of system coupling,ecological economics,tourism environment and sustainable development,this paper constructed the evaluation index system of tourism economy and ecological environment of Jiangxi province.Tourism economy system covers three criterion layers in population index,income index and economic structure index and twelve indicators of ecological system.Ecological environment system covers three criterion layers in endowment index,pressure index,protection index and thirteen indicators of ecological system,a total of 25 indicators.Simultaneously,the comprehensive evaluation model,coupling degree model and coupling coordination degree model are used to analyze the coordinated development of tourism economy and ecological environment in Jiangxi province and 11 prefecture level cities from 2005 to 2015.The main conclusions of this paper are as follows:(1)From the perspective of time,the overall development level of tourism economy and ecological environment in Jiangxi province is on the rise,but the ecological environment is "rising,falling and then rising".This is consistent with the status of the ecological environment carrying capacity of Jiangxi in the past two years,indicating that the quality of the ecological environment should be improved in the future.(2)The comprehensive development index of tourism economy and ecological environment,the coupling degree and the coupling coordination degree have been rising.It is obvious that the efforts and achievements of tourism development and ecological civilization of Jiangxi in recent years.It is worth noting that,the level of coupling appeared a smaller decline in the past two years.(3)On the view of space,there is a obviously regional differences about the comprehensive index of tourism economy and ecological environment,coupling degree,coupling coordination degree between 11 cities,it shows a great relationship between tourism development and ecological civilization construction process.At present,many cities have shown that the ecological environment lags behind the tourism economy,which lags behind include Nanchang,Jiujiang and Pingxiang.The investment of ecological environment construction should be strengthened in the future of these cities to promote the coordinated development of them. |