Impact of Ecological Environment on Tourism Development in Shandong Province, China

With the development of the tourism year, tourism fever has become an emerging vocabulary among the public. However, the maintenance of a good ecological environment is the basis for maximizing the benefits of resources and the environment and developing tourism industry. In this paper, forest land,...

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Published inJournal of landscape research Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 47 - 50
Main Authors Dongmei, Zhang, Weijun, Zhao, Xiaomei, Liu, Yanyan, Xin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cranston Wu Chu (USA-China) Science and Culture Media Corporation 01.10.2021
Subjects
Air quality
Cities
Correlation analysis
Correlation coefficient
Correlation coefficients
Ecological effects
Ecotourism
Environmental economics
Environmental impact
Environmental quality
Fever
Forestry
Income
Indicators
Industrial development
Tourism
Tourism development
Tourists
Wetlands
China
Shandong China
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Summary:With the development of the tourism year, tourism fever has become an emerging vocabulary among the public. However, the maintenance of a good ecological environment is the basis for maximizing the benefits of resources and the environment and developing tourism industry. In this paper, forest land, wetland coverage area and urban air quality were as the indicators of ecological environment quality, and the correlation between ecological environment quality and the number of inbound tourists and tourism income as well as the number of domestic tourists and tourism income in Shandong Province was analyzed. The results show that the overall ecological environment quality of Shandong Province has been continuously improved since 2008. By 2015, the forestry coverage rate increased to 24%, and the wetland area also expanded to 173 hm2. The total tourism income of Shandong Province continued to increase from 245.22 billion yuan in 2009 to 587.80 billion yuan in 2014, and the number of foreign tourists also rose from 3.10 million to 4.457 million. Typical eco-environmental quality indicators such as forest area and forest greening rate had a significant linear correlation with tourism income, and the correlation coefficients were all higher than 0.85. The results can provide relevant scientific reference for the future development of ecotourism and the protection of ecological environment.
ISSN:1943-989X
DOI:10.16785/j.issn1943-989x.2021.5.012