RESEARCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM INDUSTRY
综合评述了旅游业对物理和社会环境的影响以及目的地居民的心理反应,提出了未来研究方向,包括定量评价体系、环境变化及交互机制。
With the advent of the age of mass tourism,the environmental impacts of tourism have been getting increasingly notable and have become an important issue for public concern and academic research.This paper synthetically summarizes recent studies on the physical and social environmental impacts of tourism industry and its psychological responses on the residents of tourism destinations.To conclude,the paper proposes some issues for future research,including the quantitative evaluation system of tourism environmental impacts,tourism impacts on future destination environment change and the mechanism of interaction among the physical and social environments and the residents' psychological responses.