Coupling Coordinative Degree of Tourism-Economy-Environment System - Take Resource-Based Cities in Shanxi Province as a Case

Abstract

As typical cities of natural resources exploitation and processing, to make less reliant to natural resources and to regain more Sustainable development power are important issues and pressing tasks for resource-based cities in China. Based on the theory of ecological civilization and sustainable development, this study formulated a coupling coordinative model of tourism-regional economy-ecological environment system, and made a comparison with the coupling relationship among the tourism-regional economy-ecological environment system using 2005-2010 statistics data of three typical cities in Shanxi province by entropy method, which reaches the following conclusions that: It found widespread coupling interaction in the compound system of tourism-regional economy-ecological environment in these three cities; Differences in the aspects of tourist market, geographical location, industrial structure, tourism resources, urbanization process and climatic conditions are the keys to form the coupling relationship; Evaluation on the coupling coordinative degree provides a useful reference for sustainable development of tourism industry in future.