Study On Tourism Environmental Bearing Capacity Of Changyang Qingjiang Scenic Area

With the vigorous development of tourist industry, the environmental quality oftourist region has been threatened seriously, and tourism activities constitute a seriousthreat to the sustainable development of economic and social. In order to achievesustainable development of tourism, it is quite important to make certain touristenvironmental bearing capacity rationally and scientifically.At first, the progress of tourism environmental bearing capacity was made a detailedstudy on the concept and index system, also the quantitative study. Based on currenttheory and according to the tourism destination of Changyang Qingjiang scenic area, Indexsystem of the tourism environmental bearing capacity in mountain-river scenic area wasestablished.Then, on the premise of sustainable development of tourism, a matter-elementanalysis model for tourism environmental bearing capacity was set up to evaluate thetourism environmental bearing capacity and sub-bearing capacities of ChangyangQingjiang scenic area. It was proved that the tourism environmental bearing capacity ofChangyang Qingjiang scenic area was in the Ⅱlevel, and its tourism was in a sustainablestage of development. Tourism environmental bearing capacity and its sub-bearingcapacities were influenced by the peak season and the off-season. Compared to them,during the peak season, there were more tourists, more rapid economic development, moreecological destruction, and lack of the reception capacity of tourist facilities in quantityand quality; during the off-season when tourists were less, natural and social resourceswere left idle, leading to slow pace of economic development. Tourism facilities bearingcapacity in the peak season and social economic bearing capacity in the off-season got offto Ⅲ level, which were the most important limiting factor for the sustainabledevelopment of tourism during the period of time respectively. In addition, the evalution results of tourism environmental bearing capacity onecological footprint and matter-element analysis were contrasted and analyzed. It wouldobtain more accurate results using the two methods which could complement each other.At last, Specific regulation strategies were aiso proposed against the problems for thesustainable development of tourism in Changyang Qingjiang scenic area.