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Tourist development and its influences on ecosystem and landscape
QU Ming, XUE Li, XU Yan
College of Forestry, Soutn China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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This paper summarized the research advances in relationship between tourism development and environment in China and foreign countries.The researches of foreign, countries generally include inquiries about concepts of tourism environment and criterions of tourism environment quality, the influences of tourism on natural environment, the studies on tourism environment capacity, the influences of social culture environment caused by tourism and the studies on protective countermeasure of tourism environment and so on; domestic relative researches lagged behind foreign countries, but the relationship between tourism and environment had been paid great attention since 1970's.Domestic researchers widely absorbed foreign accomplishments and made great progress in this field.In addition, the paper also introduced bad influences of tourism development on ecosystem and landscape, such as partial breakage of vegetation, soil erosion and the changes of soil chemical and physical properties, the decrease of wild animals, the increase of bacteria, dust and exhaust gas in the air and water pollution.In future, the study should deal with the contradiction between exploitation and protection, and the idea of landscape ecology should also be applied in scenic spot planning and its protection.

Key wordsTourism      Environment      Ecosystem      Landscape      Influence     
Received: 25 June 2005     
:  K928.9  
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QU Ming,XUE Li,XU Yan. Tourist development and its influences on ecosystem and landscape[J]. , 2005, 24(3): 268-272.
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