Evaluation of land-use suitability can prevent problems, such as environmental disruption, wastage of resources, and ecological disruption, when unsuitable tourism-based exploration is undertaken in an area. This study summarizes a novel concept and proposes the idea of wellness tourism, which constitutes health preservation, sports and recovery, medical healing, and aged nursing, integrated with Chinese culture. A spatial suitability evaluation system for wellness tourism was developed in a mountain area via the integration of the analytic network process-Delphi. As wellness tourism activities diversified, land suitability was assigned to four kinds of wellness tourism activities, while considering their unique requirements. Comparative analysis and five-degree suitable maps of four kinds of activities revealed that Yining City and its peripheral localities have the potential of functioning as a comprehensive and national wellness tourist destination. The counties of Horgos, Huocheng, Qapqal, Zhaosu, Tekes, Tokkuztara, and Narat should make full use of their strengths, as they have the advantage of catering to different wellness tourism activities. This paper discusses some conceptual aspects of wellness tourism, provides an example for the selection of potential areas for wellness tourism in the mountainous regions of China, and provides baseline information that can support the development of wellness tourism.

With the rapid development of tourism, tourism activities have a certain impact on the environment of ecological nature reserves. Taking Wuyishan National Nature Reserve as the research object, this paper explores the impact of tourism activities on the environmental carrying capacity, vegetation landscape and atmospheric environment of natural ecological protection areas, and seeks measures for the coordinated development of tourism activities and ecological natural protection. The results show that the results of different tourism carrying capacity components vary greatly, and the number of tourists in Wuyishan National Nature Reserve has exceeded the value of tourism environmental carrying capacity. The influence of tourism activities on vegetation landscape is great and 6 out of the 20 samples tested are moderate interference. The closer the samples are to the travel path, the greater the interference degree on vegetation landscape is, the greater the interference by tourism activities is, and the smaller the ecological benefit value of the sample is. This study provides a theoretical and experimental basis for the sustainable development of tourism activities and ecological nature reserves.

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