The Researeh On The Relation Between Forest Tourism Development And County Economic Growth In Liaoning

It is generally acknowledged that County economy is the significant basis of Chinanational economy. Developing a characteristic industry in suitable measures to localconditions is a vital way to improve the energy of county economy and to promote the cityand countryside integration in the process of county economy development.As a "sun-risingindustry",forest tourism industry grows up with the rapid development of globaltourism,people's returning-nature psychology and "the green consumption idea".It is also animportant approach to strive for the sustainable use of forest resources based on the restrictivedevelopment of forest.This paper in the view of county industry coordinatedgrowth,investigates the development situation of county forest tourism industry. It is benefitfor enhancing the utilization of county resources,controlling the development of countyeconomy not to get beyond the bearing capacity of the resources and environment andachieving the standing sustainable development of socil economy according to the research onthe relation.This paper studies the internal and external conditions,the development history, touristcarries,tourist routing of forest tourism in Liaoning province in the background of nationaldevelopment of forest tourism at first. Then it points out that the Lower grade resources is thedisadvangages for the development of forest torism.But geographic region andeconomic advantages have Special contribution to forest tourism. Using factor analysis,thepaper estimates the Touristization of30counties(cities) in Liaoning province which carriesout tourist activities. The paper investigates the regional inequality of forest tourism industryand points out that resources and location are the significant element to the distribution offorest tourism.The Touristization is higher in southern and eastern than weasten in Liaoning.This paper explore the contribution of forest tourism by investigating the industrial statusof forest tourism industry in the development of county economy.The determination of anindustrial status is the precondition of choosing the development policy of county tourismindustry. The paper applies the choosing standard of leading industry to consider the industrystatus of forest tourism industry in a county. Forest tourism industry has less contribution tothe development of county development and it doesn't have the industry status of orientedindustry. However,forest tourism industry holds higher income elasticity and industryrelevance. With greater market demand and industry structure be being perfected,Weshould fix the position of forest tourism industry to the relevant county industry.It is found from the analysis about relevance.The foresy have more relevance with theaccommodation,catering and tourist transportation which have lower income elasticity thanentertainment and commercial industry which have higher elasticity. This shows that theforest tourism industry in Liaoning province is still in a lower development level.According to the measure of the causal relationship between county economydevelopment and forest tourism industry,we analyse the stage of development on foresttourism industry on the basis of analyzing industry relevance and industry status. There is anindividual Granger causal relationship between county economy and forest tourism industry.Forest tourism industry is in the initial stage of tourism industry development. The interactiverelationship between tourism industry and county economy is mainly reflected in thefacilitation county economy brings to tourism industry. There is a long-time equilibriumrelationship between forest tourism industry and county economy. A special attention shouldbe paid to the development speed and quality control in the progress of forest tourism industrydevelopment,then the forest tourism industry may strive for developing in the coordination ofnature—society—economy composite system.Taking county of Benxi in Liaoning Province as an example,the paper uses GEM modelto investigate the competitiveness of forest toutism industry both in northeastward and thenorth plain area. It also seeks the bottleneck element of restricting the development of countyforest tourism industry in Liaoning Province and puts forward the policy suggestion onimproving the core competitiveness to county forest tourism.At last,in allusion to the restriction mechanism,just like funds,labor force,resourcesconservation and so on,the paper puts forward the policy suggestion on the sustainabledevelopment of forest tourism industry in the county economy development.