Study on Low-Carbon Development in the Eco-Tourism Area: Taking Qinghai Lake of China as an Example

Abstract:

Global climate change and resources and environmental problems have great impacts on the sustainable development of human beings. The development of low-carbon economy has become an important way for countries to cope with climate change and change the way of economic and social development. Under the background of low-carbon economy, low-carbon tourism has become the response of tourism industry to low-carbon economy. The low-carbon development of eco-tourism areas is the inevitable choice of the tourism industry to achieve sustainable development. Taking Qinghai Lake, the world-famous eco-tourism destination of plateau lakes as an example, this paper discusses the significance of the low-carbon development of eco-tourism areas. It analyzes the main problems of low-carbon development in the Qinghai Lake eco-tourism area from the aspects of tourism development and construction, operation and management and tourists’ behaviors respectively. The author holds that scientifically planning and constructing tourism areas, operating and managing them in an environmentally friendly way, strengthening the environmental education and management of tourists, as well as competing for policy support from the government are the main countermeasures for low-carbon development in the eco-tourism areas.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 524-527)
• Pages: 2442-2447
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.524-527.2442
• Online since: May 2012
• Authors: Jiong Hua Li, Rosalind Sia, Li Yang
• Keywords: Eco-Tourism Area, Low-Carbon Development, Qinghai Lake

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