A Study on Measurement of Tourism Environmental Carrying Capacity of Geoparks - a Case study of Xinwen Karst World Geopark

摘要

Scientific assessment of tourism environmental carrying capacity is key to geotourism sustainable development. Based on exploring the definition of tourism environmental carrying capacity of geoparks and its characteristics, by adopting methods of AHP and literature review this paper focuses on establishing an appraisal indicator system of tourism environmental carrying capacity of geoparks. However, it's more reasonable to give weights of appraisal indicators for a given geopark for geoparks greatly differ in terms of natural, economical and socio-cultural environment. Thus, taking Xinwen Karst World Geopark in Sichuan province as an example, the paper calculates weights of indicators of the park's tourism carrying capacity with AHP method and measures its tourism environmental carrying capacity by using average weighted method. The findings reveal that Xinwen Karst World Geopark is in mild overloading.