Overview of tourism carrying capacity

Tourism carrying capacity, also known as tourist capacity of scenic spots, refers to the capacity of tourism activities within a certain spatial range of tourism resources under certain time conditions, that is, to meet the minimum requirements of tourists, including psychological induction atmosphere and environmental standards for protecting resources, which is the amount of tourist activities that can be accommodated by the material and spatial scale of tourism resources. The carrying capacity of scenic spots emphasizes the influence of land use intensity, tourism economic benefits, tourist density and other factors on the carrying capacity of tourist destinations, including the basic contents of resource space carrying capacity, environmental ecological carrying capacity, management carrying capacity, economic development carrying capacity, social and regional carrying capacity, etc. The tourism carrying capacity of a tourist destination is the comprehensive capacity of these carrying capacities.