Skip to Main Content Tourism environmental impact has been a
core issue in Tourism studies and its investigation has
originated from 1960s abroad while it attracted researcher's
attention till early 1980s in China. Although the impacts of
tourism development on natural and social environment has been
recognized, systematic studies of destination environment and
its sustainable development in evaluation models, measure
approaches, determinant factors, mechanism, integrative measures
and management are still relatively rare. Researchers and
policymakers pay much attention to the particular region, but
give little consideration to that environmental impact of
tourism development has the characteristics of interregional
diffusion, spatial shift and worldwide influence of ecological
liability. Therefore how to investigate the tourist
environmental impact thoroughly and how to realize sustainable
development from a broad perspective is a theoretical and
empirical issue. This paper gives the definition of tourist wa