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Resources Development and Tourism Environmental Carrying Capacity of Ecotourism Industry in Pingdingshan City, China Yufeng Zhao* and Lei Jiao Zhao and Jiao Ecological Processes (2019) 8:7 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-019-0161-0 RESEARCH Open Access Resources development and tourism environmental carrying capacity of ecotourism industry in Pingdingshan City, China Yufeng Zhao* and Lei Jiao Abstract Background: Pingdingshan City has unique and rich ecotourism landscape. To realize the sustainable development of ecotourism industry in Pingdingshan and simultaneously achieve economic development and environmental protection in the development of ecotourism resources, literature analysis and field investigation methods were used to deeply explore the advantages and problems of Pingdingshan in the process of resources development in this study. Then, the indicator system of environmental carrying capacity of Pingdingshan was established and environmental carrying capacity was calculated to understand the local tourism environmental carrying capacity. Results: The development of ecotourism resources in Pingdingshan has advantages of natural conditions, convenient transportation, and sound infrastructure, but there were also problems, such as insufficient resources protection and unscientific management system. After calculation, it was found that the environmental carrying capacity of ecotourism in Pingdingshan was overloaded. Conclusion: This study reveals the development of the tourism industry in Pingdingshan and provides a basis for the future development of Pingdingshan tourism resources, which is beneficial to the sustainable development of the local ecotourism industry. Keywords: Ecotourism resources, Environmental carrying capacity, Sustainable development, Resource-based city Introduction economic income. Pingdingshan City is located in the With the change of people’s travel idea, ecotourism has south-central part of Henan Province, China. The geo- developed rapidly. It has received widespread attention graphical position is very unique, and the ecotourism re- since its appearance. The ecotourism industry in sources are quite abundant. With the development of Indonesia has gained a rapid development by virtue of resources, the ecotourism industry in Pingdingshan City its good ecotourism resources, indicating that the pro- has developed rapidly, and many problems have arisen. tection of ecotourism resources can effectively promote Evaluating the carrying capacity of the ecological envir- the sustainable development of the tourism industry onment can effectively promote the development of eco- (Hengky 2017). Siswanto (2015) concluded that the eco- tourism (Daneshvar and Sheybani 2011). Shi et al. (2015) tourism industry had created more income for local resi- calculated the carrying capacity of ecotourism in dents and business owners and brought certain Shang-La County and found that the reasonable devel- economic benefits to the local community. The develop- opment of natural resources in Shang-La effectively pro- ment of ecotourism resources could raise people’s moted the long-term development of its ecotourism. awareness of environmental protection while increasing Many resource-based cities have developed rapidly by virtue of abundant natural resources, but they also face problems of over-exploitation and resource exhaustion. * Correspondence: [email protected] Henan University of Urban Construction, Longxiang Avenue, Pingdingshan As a resource-based city, ecotourism industry of City 467000, Henan Province, China © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Zhao and Jiao Ecological Processes (2019) 8:7 Page 2 of 6 Pingdingshan has developed rapidly, and its state of re- carrying capacity, ecology environmental carrying cap- source development needs to be paid attention to. How- acity, psychology environmental carrying capacity, and ever, the current research on tourism resources tourism environmental carrying capacity. The value of development and environmental carrying capacity of ecotourism environmental carrying capacity is not the Pingdingshan has not been quite sufficient. sum of the parts, but the minimum value of each part. Based on the research on resource development of Resource environmental carrying capacity (RECC) re- Pingdingshan City, this study established the evaluation fers to the number of tourists that can be reached in a system of ecotourism environmental carrying capacity of region on the premise of realizing the time requirements Pingdingshan and carried out corresponding evaluation of tourists, which is a major manifestation of environ- to promote the sound and rapid development of eco- mental protection (Ye et al. 2016). Its expression is: tourism resources in Pingdingshan. RECC = (daily turnover rate × total resource space)/per capita basic space standard Development status of tourism resources in Further calculations are based on the per capita area Pingdingshan City of the tourist area: Pingdingshan has been listed as a resource-based city by virtue of its rich and diversified natural resources. In RECC ¼ ðÞS  T =ðÞs  t ; ð1Þ addition to coal, steel, and other natural resources, Ping- dingshan also has abundant tourism resources. Ping- where S stands for tourist area (m2), T stands for open- dingshan has superior geographical position and unique ing hours (h), s stands for per capita area occupied by natural conditions. Its tourism resources are character- tourists (m2), and t stands for time required for a visitor ized by diverse contents, unique scenery, and concen- to visit (h). trated resources. In recent years, the ecotourism Ecology environmental carrying capacity (EECC) is the industry of Pingdingshan has developed rapidly. The amount of tourism that a tourist area can bear without construction of scenic spots has almost covered all the affecting the environment, which is expressed by the important tourism resources of the Pingdingshan. The number of tourists. Its expression is: tourism resources are protected to drive the economic development in the process of development (Nuzula et EECC ¼ minðÞ WECC; AECC; SWCC ; ð2Þ al. 2017). However, the development of ecotourism re- sources in Pingdingshan also exists many problems. First where WECC stands for water environmental carrying of all, the destruction of ecotourism resources occurs capacity, WECC = daily sewage treatment level/daily frequently due to insufficient resources protection. Then, sewage production per person, AECC stands for air en- S f many management systems in the ecotourism industry vironmental carrying capacity, AECC ¼ s , where S are unscientific, resulting in the waste and inefficient use stands for tourist area (m2), f stands for forest coverage of many resources in the tourism industry, which cannot ratio (%), s stands for per capita green areas (m2/person), guarantee the sustainable development of tourism re- and SWCC stands for solid waste carrying capacity, sources. In addition, the development and utilization of SWCC = total amount of daily disposed solid waste/per ecotourism resources in Pingdingshan is low. The lack capita daily. of infrastructure is an important factor affecting the pro- Selection criteria of indicators are different for tourist tection of tourism resources and low level of develop- areas of different kinds or with different properties (Shen ment and utilization, which is not conducive to the et al. 2017). According to the actual situation, water en- long-term development of tourist attractions. vironmental capacity was regarded as the main aspect (Xu and Yan 2016). Calculation method of tourism environmental Psychology environmental carrying capacity (PECC) carrying capacity includes the psychological capacity of residents and the The ecotourism environmental carrying capacity refers psychological capacity of tourists in tourist areas (Zhang to the acceptable number of tourists that can be ac- 2014). The psychological capacity of residents refers to cepted in a certain area, which can not only meet the the maximum number of tourists that residents of tour- needs of tourists and benefit the tourism industry, but ist areas can bear psychologically. The psychological car- also protect the environment and reduce the impact. In rying capacity of tourists refers to the maximum this study, the indicator system of environmental carry- crowding condition that tourists can accept in the ing capacity was constructed, and the calculation was process of traveling. The result can be obtained through made on that basis. a questionnaire survey. The system of ecotourism environmental carrying cap- Tourism environmental carrying capacity (TECC) re- acity consists of four parts: resource environmental fers to the maximum number of tourists that the basic Zhao and Jiao Ecological Processes (2019) 8:7 Page 3 of 6 service facilities in the tourism area can afford (Zelenka was 20.44 million people each year, which was obtained and Kacetl 2014). Its expression is: by ecology environmental carrying capacity. It was found that ecology environmental carrying capacity could rep- ¼ ðÞ; ; … ; ð Þ TECC min TECC1 TECC2 TECCi 3 resent the ecotourism environmental carrying capacity, which was the most important and basic part in the in- where TECCi stands for economic burden part
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