Study on tourist carrying capacity of sustainable tourism---by taking Qingliang Mountain in the south-eastern china as an example

Jin, Shenglang; Liu, Ting

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/64/1/012052

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“…It is necessary to consider the expected volume of tourist traffic and create tourism carrying capacity to match it already at the planning stage of the tourist infrastructure development process. This was shown for Tara National Park in Serbia (Đorđević et al 2016) as well as for the Qingling Mountains in China (Jin and Liu 2017). Our research is closely related to environmental and ecological carrying capacity.…”

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Degradation of a protected mountain area by tourist traffic: case study of the Tatra National Park, Poland

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Mountain protected areas are characterized by high biodiversity, which makes it a great challenge for managers to maintain a balance between their use and the stability of natural ecosystems. Maintaining that balance is particularly difficult in areas with high tourism pressure. The expected volume of tourist traffic should be considered at the planning stage of the tourist infrastructure development process. Insufficient capacity of tourist infrastructure can lead to environmental degradation, which is hard, or at times impossible, to repair. In our research, we identified patterns of tourist footpath and road functioning in an environmentally protected area with high volumes of tourist traffic. Data from geomorphologic mapping was analyzed in order to identify tourist footpath and road structures in the Tatra National Park (TNP). Fieldwork was conducted in several stages between 1995 and 2019. Orthophotomaps from the years 1977, 2009, 2017 and 2019 were used to identify and compare degraded zones along selected tourist footpaths. Degraded zones were defined as areas surrounding a footpath or tourist road with a mean width larger than or equal to 10 meters, with heavily damaged or completely removed vegetation and exposed, weathered cover, where geomorphic processes that would not take place under normal conditions are readily observable. The examined tourist footpaths and roads vary in terms of their morphometric parameters. Research has shown important differences between mean and maximum footpath width as well as maximum incision depth for the forest zone versus the subalpine and alpine zones. A lack of differences in these parameters was noted between the alpine and subalpine zones. Research has shown that an increase in the surface area of degraded zones found adjacent to tourist footpaths occurred in all the studied geo-ecological zones in the study period. However, the largest increase occurred atop wide ridgelines found in the alpine zone. Degraded zones may be an indication of exceeding the tourist carrying capacity of a mountain tourist area. Mass tourism in TNP contributes to the formation of degraded zones adjacent to footpaths, whose continuous evolution may lead to irreversible changes in local relief.

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Religious Tourism and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Hill States in India

Gambhir¹,

Khalid

Sharma

2021

World Sustainability Series

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Analysis of temporal and spatial evolution of tourism resource carrying capacity performance in China

Shen

Du³

et al. 2023

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Study on tourist carrying capacity of sustainable tourism---by taking Qingliang Mountain in the south-eastern china as an example

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Degradation of a protected mountain area by tourist traffic: case study of the Tatra National Park, Poland

Degradation of a protected mountain area by tourist traffic: case study of the Tatra National Park, Poland

Religious Tourism and Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Hill States in India

Analysis of temporal and spatial evolution of tourism resource carrying capacity performance in China

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