Study on the Relevance between Tourism Environmental Carrying Capacity and Tourism Eco-efficiency for Coastal Areas in China

Jia Liu ； Yumiao Zhang ； Ning Liu ； Ju Lu

《International Leisure Review》 6卷1期 (2017/03) Pp. 32-47

https://doi.org/10.6298/ILR.2017.6.3

摘要

The purpose of this study is to find out the dynamic relevance between tourism environmental carrying capacity and tourism eco-efficiency by measurement and regression model and then provide instruction of tourism sustainable development. In order to achieve this aim, the article describes that how to evaluate the level of tourism environmental carrying capacity through building up the assessment system and applying Synthesized Index Model, and how to measure tourism eco-efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in coastal areas in China from 2001 to 2012, the data shows that there is an upward trend of tourism environmental carrying capacity and tourism eco-efficiency in coastal areas in China during the study. Furthermore, it defines vector auto-regression model and impulse response function, it concludes that there is an interaction effect between tourism environmental carrying capacity and tourism eco-efficiency. This interrelation indicates that tourism eco-efficiency is able to enhance tourism environmental carrying capacity to a certain extent, whereas, tourism environmental carrying capacity has a more significant influence on tourism eco-efficiency, which directly promotes tourism sustainable development. In a word, the paper studies the concept, methodology and relationship between tourism environmental carrying capacity and tourism eco-efficiency by using assessment and measurement models and includes a set of suggested solutions for determining, controlling and increasing tourism eco-efficiency.

關鍵字

tourism environmental carrying capacity ； tourism eco-efficiency ； dynamic relevance ； vector auto-regression model