ABSTRACT

In the comprehensive view of foreign researches on the tourist environment capacity, the main characteristic is that they do not pay much attention to the concept of “quantity”, but concern much more about “how to change the environment in an acceptable way”. In general, the researchers in our country have gained a lot of valuable research achievements on the tourist environment capacity study, and they were widely applied in the specific practice during the plan and management of tourist. In the Appendix A of “General specification for tourism planning” established by national tourism administration in 2003, the tourist capacity is divided into space capacity, apparatus capacity, ecological capacity, and social psychological capacity based on the existing research results. It is proposed that for a scenic area, measurement of day space capacity and day apparatus capacity is the most basic rule. In the appendix, the formulas for measuring day space capacity and day apparatus capacity have been listed: [5]

Formula for measuring day space capacity:

C X Z Yi i i∑ ∑Ci = / (1) C is the total day space capacity of scenic areas. Its value is equal to the sum of that of the each scenic area.