Ecological security evaluations of the tourism industry in Ecological Conservation Development Areas: A case study of Beijing's ECDA

Chengcai, Tang; Wu, Xiugang; Zheng, Qianqian; Lyu, Ning

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.232

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“…The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) [66] defines sustainable tourism as "tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities". Many scholars pay attention to the economic, ecological and social effects of sustainable tourism [67][68][69]. The carbon emission effect has become a hot spot for sustainable tourism research in recent years.…”

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Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Carbon Emissions and Their Influencing Factors for Tourist Attractions at Heritage Tourist Destinations

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Carbon emissions play an important role in sustainable tourism development at heritage sites. The study takes the Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area (WSHIA) as an example, and primary and secondary data sources are used to measure and estimate the carbon emissions of tourist attractions from 1979 to 2014. The temporal and spatial evolution of carbon emissions and their influencing factors for tourist attractions at heritage tourist destinations are analyzed. The results show that there are great differences in carbon emissions per visitor across the different types of tourism attractions at the heritage tourist destination, and there are significant monthly and interannual differences in the carbon emissions of the tourism attractions in the WSHIA. The main influencing factors include tourism seasonality, the rapid growth of China's tourism market, and the rising popularity of heritage tourism. The spatial evolution of carbon emissions of the tourist attractions can be divided into three stages, and its main influencing factors include functional zoning and environmental regulation at the heritage sites and diversified evolution of the heritage tourist attractions. The findings of this study could enrich theories of low-carbon tourism and provide the low-carbon development measures of sustainable tourism in heritage tourist destinations for policymakers.activities [25][26][27][28] and others. Previous findings on energy and CO 2 emissions in the tourism industry mainly focus on three sectors: transportation, accommodation, and activities [17,18]. Many studies have indicated that transportation and accommodation account for a large portion of the energy consumption and CO 2 emissions in the tourism industry [1,9]. There are few studies on energy consumption and carbon emissions of tourist attractions and activities when compared to tourism transportation and accommodation. Tourist attractions and activities, considered as a sub-sector in the conceptual framework for tourism satellite accounts (TSA) of the WTO (1999), constitute the core of the tourism product [17]. A study shows that the proportion of carbon emissions of tourist attractions and activities from the whole tourism industry is 22.46% at the destination in 2015 [15]. It can be concluded that carbon emissions from tourist attractions and activities are very important and the corresponding data is lacking in the study of sustainable tourism, so this paper tries to fill this gap through calculating and analyzing carbon emissions of tourist attractions and activities.World Heritage Sites are the most important tourist attractions in the world. According to the statistics of the United Nations Educational Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Heritage List consists of 1121 World Heritage Sites, including 869 cultural sites, 213 natural sites, and 39 mixed sites as of July 2019. While the basic objective of UNESCO in the designation of the World Heritage Sites is to promote their protection and preservation, some destinations are pr...

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“…The carbon emission effect has become a hot spot for sustainable tourism research in recent years. Many scholars have studied the sustainable tourism development of different types of tourism destinations [68,70].…”

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Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Carbon Emissions and Their Influencing Factors for Tourist Attractions at Heritage Tourist Destinations

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“…Green development, which emphasizes the coordinated development of economic growth, ecological environment protection, and social progress [29,30], is the popular proposition of world development of the current era [31]. Essentially, green development has become an important concept and an effective way of sustainable development of tourism destinations.…”

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A Study on the Coordinative Green Development of Tourist Experience and Commercialization of Tourism at Cultural Heritage Sites

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Zheng

2019

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Tourism at China's cultural heritage sites has developed rapidly in recent years. These sites have encountered many challenging problems such as poor tourist experience, over-commercialization, and loss of cultural authenticity. This study took the coordinative green development of tourist experience and commercialization of tourism (CGDTECT) at cultural heritage sites as the research objective, using two UNESCO World Heritage Sites-the Ancient City of Pingyao and West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou-and the Confucius Temple in the historic district of Nanjing as case studies. As such, we attempted to construct an indicator system for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites. We adopted a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and importance-performance analysis (IPA) method to analyze the importance and performance of CGDTECT from a tourist's perspective. Our findings show that tourists thought the coordinative green development and experience at the three cultural heritage sites were more important; they were basically satisfied with CGDTECT at the three case studies, so a continuous promotion strategy could be taken. The findings of this study can provide scientific theoretical guidance and practical reference for CGDTECT at cultural heritage sites, and contribute to the scientific protection of cultural heritage sites and the sustainable development of tourism.

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“…Tourism development must be compatible with the carrying capacity of resources and the environment. If damage from environmental pollution caused by development of the tourism industry exceeds an acceptable ecological security threshold, it will threaten ecological service functions and the sustainable development of tourism areas [55]. Unfortunately, the diverse stakeholders often violate the objective During the development of tourism, humans should respect the laws of nature and avoid exploitation in areas with a fragile natural ecology and high risk of natural disasters.…”

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Evaluation of All-for-One Tourism in Mountain Areas Using Multi-Source Data

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All-for-one tourism is a new viewpoint of tourism development involving overall planning and cooperative mechanisms. Over the past few years, the researchers have put forward many conceptual models to guide the top-level design and specific practice of all-for-one tourism. However, these studies mainly focus on social, economic and cultural effect in mature tourism areas, lacking comprehensive analysis from geographical perspective and neglecting the underdeveloped regions. In this paper, we attempt to apply geographic information system technology to tourism evaluation, exploring the approach of all-for-one tourism development in mountain regions. Zunyi city is selected as the research region and evaluated on the abundance, quality and spatial pattern of tourism resources, climate comfort, natural disaster possibility, and convenience of infrastructure or social service. Multi-source datasets collected from websites, reanalysis data, remote sensing products and observation stations are used. Based on data analysis, some recommendations including enriching cultural tourism products through cultural creativity, ensuring regional coordinated development through spatial optimization, respecting the spatiotemporal characteristics of climate and the laws of nature, and strengthening construction of infrastructure, are discussed to promote the healthy development of all-for-one tourism. attention of governments, enterprises and social problem researchers, as it is regarded as an effective and reliable approach to achieve rural revitalization and promote the coordinated and sustainable development of urban and rural areas [6].Recently, various conceptual models have been presented to explain the connotation of all-for-one tourism. Li et al. [7] summed up all-for-one tourism as "four new ideas" (resources, products, industries and markets) and "eight constructive aspects" (all tourism elements, all professions, all processes, all levels, the entire space and time, the whole society, all participant departments and all latent tourists). They argued that all-for-one tourism should aim at providing tourists with sufficient product experiences by integrating various industries, cooperating different departments, uniting all participants in the region, and taking full use of tourism destinations. Li [8] pointed out that all-for-one tourism is a new regional coordinated development mode, where tourism is the dominant industry and promotes the development of the economy and society in the chosen region. The ultimate goal of all-for-one tourism is to achieve the scientific and reasonable integration of resources, industries and developments, as well as social co-construction and sharing through optimizing and upgrading the complex systematic structure within a specific region. Zhang et al. [9] emphasized the domain perspective of all-for-one tourism, including temporal-spatial domain, industry domain, element domain and management domain. Feng [5] unscrambled the necessity of all-for-one tourism development from the five charact...

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Ecological security evaluations of the tourism industry in Ecological Conservation Development Areas: A case study of Beijing's ECDA

Cited by 92 publications

References 41 publications

Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Carbon Emissions and Their Influencing Factors for Tourist Attractions at Heritage Tourist Destinations

Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Carbon Emissions and Their Influencing Factors for Tourist Attractions at Heritage Tourist Destinations

A Study on the Coordinative Green Development of Tourist Experience and Commercialization of Tourism at Cultural Heritage Sites

Evaluation of All-for-One Tourism in Mountain Areas Using Multi-Source Data

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