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| COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF TOURISM SUSTAINABILITY BETWEEN NATIONAL PARKS IN THE UK AND CHINA——A Case Study of Jiuzhaigou National Park and New Forest National Park |
| CHENG Shao-wen1, ZHANG Jie2, HU Jing1, XU Fei-fei3 |
1. School of Urban and Environment Science, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430074, China;
2. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
3. School of Service Management, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth BH12 5BB, UK |
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Abstract Natural protection along with tourism development and local community development in protected areas, especially in national parks has always been the main and hot topic for global concern and research by scholars and international organizations like IUCN, UNWTO etc.. National parks in Britain and China both host dense communities, and the history of national park system in both countries are not very long. Besides, national park management both in the UK and China aims for park conservation, socio-economic development in local communities and sustainable tourism development on the basis of greatly different institutional, cultural, socio-economic background. China's Jiuzhaigou National Park and British New Forest National Park are respectively the best one in each country for national park management practice and the most popular natural tourism destination with approximately same area. Taking these two parks as study cases, this paper focuses on comparative appraisement of tourism sustainability between these two national parks. Data for two parks environmental and economic performance were all got from the two authorities of these two parks. Finally, integrated weighted appraising program following intergrated weight calculation came to below result: tourism development in Jiuzhaigou was potentially sustainable with perfect performance and achievement in natural protection, stable tourism development and local community social-economic wellbeing development.
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Received: 30 November 2011
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2013, Vol. 28 
