The Island Tourist Ecosystem Health Assessment Study

Tourism-type islands are increasingly becoming a hot spot because of its unique natural landscape and humanity resources. However, due to unreasonable resources exploitation and utilization of the islands, and island ecosystems'vulnerability, making the island ecosystem health threat, while also restricting the sustainable and healthy development of the island tourism. Currently, most of the research on tourism-type islands focuses on the tourism products design, exploiting condition assessment, tourism development strategy and mode of development research and so on. There are little discussions about ecosystem health of tourism-type islands. Therefore, in order to enrich the contents of island tourism research and to boost the sustainable development of tourism-type islands, we conduct health assessment of tourism-type islands ecosystem, and take Meizhou Island for a case study.The main contents include four aspects: 1) Defining the related concepts of ecosystem health of tourism-type islands; analyzing ecosystem structure and ecosystem function of tourism-type islands and its ecosystem health characteristics on the spatial and temporal scales.2) Considering the characteristics of tourism-type islands and referencing other ecosystem health assessment method, select the appropriate evaluation index and establish the evaluation criteria, framing health evaluation index system of small tourism-type islands ecosystem based on PSR model as well as evaluation model.3) Taking Meizhou Island as the research object, investigate and collect local statistics and other multi-source data, then use the ecosystem health theory and model evaluation method to carry out this research. The health assessment result of Meizhou Island is that: the unhealthy degree is 0.2974; unhealthy level isⅤgrade, which means the ecosystem health of Meizhou Island is in a little unhealthy state. 4) Discussing the ecosystem health management and regulatory Strategies of tourism-type islands.