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| ASSESSMENT OF THE FOREST PARK'S TOURISM ENVIRONMENTAL CARRYING CAPACITY——A Case Study of Chongqing Huangshui National Forest Park |
| YIN Xin-zhe, LI Jing-hua, LEI Ying |
| School of International Business, Sichuan International Studies Universtiy, Chongqing 400031, China |
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Abstract Assessment of the forest park's tourism environmental carrying capacity is of crucial importance for its efficient operation. On the one hand estimate of tourism carrying capacity is a complex systematic matter which is affected by many factors such as natural environmental characteristics, composition structure, economic social background, the behavior characteristics of tourists and demographic features, and at the same time researchers must put the influence caused by seasonal fluctuation of forest park into consideration, on the other hand, only reasonable assessment of the forest park's tourism environmental carrying capacity can help to provide theoretical support and policy guidance for the forest park's planning design and management. Selecting Chongqing Huangshui National Forest Park as a typical case for empirical research, this paper firstly makes analysis and assessment of single constraint index, and then screens out some index which maybe restrict Huangshui national forest park's tourism environmental carrying capacity by questionnaire and interviews in this area. Secondly, with the method of ADIHP, this paper confirms the influence weight which can exhibit how the different single carrying capacity press on the whole tourism environmental carrying capacity and then makes comprehensive analysis of the forest park's tourism environmental carrying capacity by taking the structuring of carrying capacity index, the division of forest park's space and seasonal fluctuation of forest park into account. This paper finally provides not only specific optimized design scheme, but also comparatively accurate data scientifically, and practical reference value for the forest park's optimized design and development, and entirely promotion of forest park's leisure and recreational function.
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Received: 13 June 2011
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2013, Vol. 28 
