[Bad tourist behaviors and their environmental impacts on Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou].
By the methods of site investigation, data collection and correlation analysis, the bad tourist behaviors and their environmental impacts on Xixi National Wetland Park in 2006 were studied. The occurrence probabilities of three bad tourist behaviors, i.e., picking, trampling, and littering were 6.5%, 10.3% and 12.6%, respectively. Picking probability was primarily related to the vegetation types along walkways, while the scale of heavy trampling was negatively correlated with tour distance from the entrance. Waste production by each tourist was 782 g x d(-1) on average. The waste from littering amounted for 13.6% of the total. Tourist flow fluctuations of daily, weekly, and monthly perspectives for the study area showed high seasonality and successive days of overloaded tourist flows during peak seasons, which caused an increase of bad tourist behaviors. However, the water quality in the Park was not affected because of the improvement of dredging facilities.
College of Life Science, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China. zjlks@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn
Guo-Xin
GX
Wang
Ru-Song
RS
Wang
Chun-Hong
CH
Mao
D002681:China; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D004777:Environment; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D011998:Recreation; D014195:Travel; D053833:Wetlands