The Empirical Research Of Rural Tourism Environment Carrying Capacity In Dujiangyan City

Relaying on the beautiful landscape of rural areas and other resources, rural tourism that combined recreation and agricultural experience tour develops rapidly in recent years with the rural natural landscape and cultural objects as the tourism attractions, and its sustainable development attracts more and more attention. The eco-system of rural tourism is open but vulnerable in some extent and it consists of several complex components. This paper focus on environmental carrying capacity (ECC) for the evaluation of rural tourism to judge the environmental carrying capacity from an environmental perspective.Firstly, the paper summarizes the concept and research progress of rural tourism and tourism ECC (TECC), then it defines the concept of TECC, features and quantization methods of rural tourism TECC. It proposes the theoretical basis based on the theory of sustainable development, system science, environmental economics, economics and psychology of tourism. The index system with 3 Ⅰ indexes, environmental, economic and social ECC,6 Ⅱ indexes, natural resources, ecological environment, infrastructure, economic development, social psychological and social support ECC, and 24 Ⅲ indexes including the natural landscape, the richness and attractiveness of tourism products and so on was established by theoretical analysis, frequency analysis method and Delphi method. The index weights were determined by AHP method. And the TECC index can be calculated by comprehensive capacity calculation methods and it can be used to analysis capacity of the whole and specific index.Questionnaire, interviews and statistical analysis methods were taken to collect the research data.400 and 320 questionnaires were distributed to tourists and residents in 4 main rural tourism areas in Dujiangyan city. The interviews with tourists, practitioners and some members of administrations were made, some data were obtained from the Tourism Bureau, the Agricultural Development and the Rural Tourism Association and other organizations. The empirical study results the rural tourism ECC index is 0.8716 and shows that the development of rural tourism in Dujiangyan is in equilibrium with the environments and it still has large potential and room to develop. The ECC index of the richness and attractiveness of tourism products and other 6 indexes is less than 0.8 and it means they can accept a greater intensity tourism activities; the ECC index of proportion of tourists and residents is 1.0160 and it is slightly overloaded. In this regard,4 suggestions are proposed: to rich the tourism products, to coordinate development and plan of tourism resources, to encourage and support the development of rural tourism with policies and investment, and to enhance the training of practitioners.