A Study Of The Coupling Coordination Between Tourism Economy And Eco-Environment In Hainan Province

As a tourism-resource-oriented destination, Hainan’s tourism relies on its monopolistically outstanding eco-environment to a large extent. High eco-quality is a prerequisite for the development of Hainan’s tourism and macro economy; its comparatively weak industrial base makes tourism contributes more to eco-environment. The coupling coordination between tourism-economy and eco-environment in Hainan Province is an issue that needs to be studied. Considering existing coupling coordination researches, rare could be found in tourism-economy-eco-environment area; in terms of the methodology, there is room for improvement in the established coupling assessing technique and EKC verifying technique. This thesis has made its responses to these issues, enriched the theoretical research in tourism-economy-eco-environment area, as well as provided suggestions for tourism and eco-environment construction in Hainan Province.Firstly, this thesis identifies four effects between tourism and eco-environment: tourism’s promotion on eco-environment, tourism’s stress on eco-environment, eco-environment’s support on tourism, and eco-environment’s restraint on tourism. After making qualitative discussion about the four effects, this thesis think promotion and effects should be enhanced while stress and restraint should be limited in order to promote tourism&eco-environment coordinated development. Then the methodology has been built, including tourism-economy/eco-environment assessment indicator system construction, tourism-economy-eco-environment graphic coupling assessment, and tourism-economy-eco-environment EKC verification. The result shows that, during1998and2012, Hainan’s tourism-economy has being on the rise in general,3stages included: low-level-steady-stage, significant-rising-stage, and high-speed-increasing-stage; while eco-environmental quality has deteriorated in certain degree, similarly, there are3stages: high-level-fluctuant-stage, gradual-declining-stage, and micro-disturbance-stage; shifting from mid or low level to comparative high level, and from tourism-economy retarded type to eco-environment retarded type, are tendencies in its coordinated development; and the result of Hainan’s tourism-economy-eco-environment EKC study indicates that, the relationship between tourism-economy system and eco-environment system is mainly represented in the relationship between tourism-economy-scope element and eco-environment-pressure element: they are in a positive correlation which can be fitted as a convex logarithmic curve; with the expansion of tourism-economy’s scope, the pressure eco-environment faces is rising, while its marginal increment is descending; the inflection point of this inverted-U curve; there exists possibility that the inflection point of this inverted-U curve is forthcoming. Likewise, there is a similar relationship between tourism-economy-scope element and eco-environment-state-response element. However, no significant quantitative relationship has been observed between tourism-economy-acceleration element and elements in eco-environment system. In the end, this thesis points out that the core of coordinated development of tourism-economy and eco-environment is to truly regard eco-resources as a kind of scarce resources, and proposes suggestions from institutional aspect, educational aspect, and technical aspect, for an improved coordinated development of Hainan’s tourism-economy and eco-environment. The main innovation points in this thesis include:build the indicator system in a more objective way-using SPSS to verify the frame; construct the tourism-economy-eco-environment graphic coupling assessment, which reflects static states as well as dynamic tendencies, and is more visualized; verify EKC, aiming at the elements in tourism-economy system and eco-environment system.