| Abstract |
The ecological environment of poor mountainous areas is relatively fragile, and they are generally located in the national ecological environment protection zone. Subject to the constraints of the special natural environment, it is an inevitable requirement for the development of impoverished mountainous areas to find a way to optimize the development of urbanization. Tourism is an environmentally friendly industry suitable for sustainable economic development in poor mountainous areas. In this paper, taking the impoverished mountainous area in western Sichuan Province, China as an example, we conducted a systematic study on the urbanization development model of the coupling of ecological environment and tourism economy in this region. The entropy method and the compound index method were used to construct the evaluation index of the urbanization development of the study area, and the weights of 13 indexes were determined. The weight values of these indicators are mainly distributed from 0.11 to 0.16, with little difference. There is a good positive correlation between per capita tourism GDP and urbanization rate. This shows that tourism occupies a very large proportion in the economy of poor mountainous areas. There are three indicators (regional environmental noise, inhalable particulate matter, and urban-rural income gap index) that have a negative relationship with urbanization development. The scores of tourism economic indicators of a single region in different years show an upward trend. The economic indicators of tourism between the core tourist business district and the other two types of areas are all positively correlated. This shows that the development of tourism economy in the core tourist business area will drive the economic development of other types of regions. The eco-environmental indicators between the ecological environment protection area and the other two types of areas are all negatively correlated. This shows that in the ecological environment protection zone, ecological protection measures have been strengthened year by year. The development of tourism economy will have certain adverse effects on the ecological environment. From the perspective of ecological civilization, the urbanization of the study area should be transformed into an ecological and healthy city. |
