Research on tourism environmental carrying capacity of island tourist destination
LIU Shidong1, GAO Jun2*
(1 College of Culture and Tourism, Xi′an University of Arts and Science, Xi′an 710065, Shaanxi, China;2 Institute of Tourism, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China)
Abstract:
Based on the spatial and temporal tourism environmental carrying capacity assessment model, taking the Yangtze River tunnel bridge linking and the EXPO as the human activity driving factors, the impacts of human activity on the island-tourist destination and the limiting factors for the tourism industry development of Shanghai Chongming island are studied.The results showed that hotel reception and water carrying capacity can meet the needs of tourists;The outland traffic had changed from ferry boat to bridge-road traffic, and the carrying capacity of road traffic gradually decompressed after “spurt tourism”, but it still was one of the limited factors in its′ peak season. At last, the biggest limited factors of tourism industry were tourist reception carrying capacity in peak season and the removal capacity of solid waste for Chongming island.
KeyWords:
environmental impact; tourism environmental carrying capacity; island-tourist destination; Chongming island
