Coupling Coordinative Degree of Tourism-Economy-Environment System - Take Resource-Based Cities in Shanxi Province as a Case

Abstract:

As typical cities of natural resources exploitation and processing, to make less reliant to natural resources and to regain more Sustainable development power are important issues and pressing tasks for resource-based cities in China. Based on the theory of ecological civilization and sustainable development, this study formulated a coupling coordinative model of tourism-regional economy-ecological environment system, and made a comparison with the coupling relationship among the tourism-regional economy-ecological environment system using 2005-2010 statistics data of three typical cities in Shanxi province by entropy method, which reaches the following conclusions that: It found widespread coupling interaction in the compound system of tourism-regional economy-ecological environment in these three cities; Differences in the aspects of tourist market, geographical location, industrial structure, tourism resources, urbanization process and climatic conditions are the keys to form the coupling relationship; Evaluation on the coupling coordinative degree provides a useful reference for sustainable development of tourism industry in future.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 522-524)
• Pages: 1798-1805
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.522-524.1798
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Peng Guo, Suo Cheng Dong*
• Keywords: Coupling Coordinative Degree, Ecological Environment, Regional Economy, Resource-Based Cities, Tourism

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