Abstract
Abstract There is no universally-accepted definition of tourism carrying capacity (TCC). Numerical TCC focuses on use level and is considered as “a magic number” of the saturation point for tourism. There are several reasons why numerical tourism capacity is inadequate. Alternatively, tourism capacity can be defined in terms of limits of acceptable change, which shifts the focus from “how much use is too much” to “how much change is acceptable”. This article proposes an improved conceptual framework for evaluating carrying capacity for the tourism city based on approaches used in US national parks, which consider the impact of human use on a city’s economic, environmental/resource, and socio-cultural conditions. Based on the basic data of indicator values and relevant standards, the framework monitors the current indicators and predicts future indicator values; it can also be used to assess and predict TCC.
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