Study On The Environmental Changes And Sustainable Development Of Tourist Destination

Sustainable development is a new pathway that will sustain human progress into the distant future. Tourist destination is the spatial carrier of tourist activities. Sustainable development of tourist destination is the embodiment and regionalization of sustainable development. Tourism is a complicated social activity which involves physical, economic and social-cultural phenomena. With the expansion of tourism, the impacts of tourism on the environment have attracted many research interests. Environment is the foundation of regional development. The impact of tourism on tourist destination will inevitably cause the change of environment. Environmental changes will affect sustainable tourism objectives, which have enormous effects on sustainable development of tourist destination.Environment of tourist destination is a complicated dissipative structure system. It is constituted of the interconnected and interacted physical, economic and social-cultural environment. There are comprehensive relationships between tourist activities and tourist destination environment. Tourist activities bring on dynamic changes of the structure of environment system. The effect on environment system brought out by tourist activities are the primary reason of environmental changes. According to the nature and direction, environmental changes of tourist destination can be divided into two types: positive changes and negative changes. The temporal process of environmental changes refers to the constant variation of the environment system function, which is staggered. Along with the spatial distribution of tourist activities, environmental changes of tourist destination displays certain spatial regularity.Sustainable development of tourist destination is a compound system of nature, economy and society in which man-land, inter-regional and inter-generational relationships must be coordinated and integrated. Environmental changes of tourist destination will induce the transformation in three relationships' mechanism. There is an interaction and interdependence relationship between sustainable development of tourist destination and environmental changes of tourist destination. The process of sustainable development of tourist destination means that the structure of environment system are coordinated and optimized. The harmony of man-land relationship must follow the principles of environmental ethics education, coordinating exploitation and protection, sustainable tourism consumption. Coordinating inter-regional relationship must follow the principles of fairly assigning resources, strengthening regional cooperation, optimizing man-land relationship. Coordinating inter-generational relationship should follow the principles of equalizing inter-generational rights, tourism resources sustainable utilization, maintaining natural-system integrity. Sustainable development of tourist destination relies on the regulation of social behaviors of local government department, the tour business enterprise and public.