Abstract:

Information was collected by means of questionnaires about volume, scale and distribution of ecological tourism activities in nature reserves of China for analysis and evaluation of the status of the ecological tourism. Results show that there are a total of 563 nature reserves that are open to ecological tourism, and among them 141 are national nature reserves and 422 local nature reserves. The development of ecological tourism varies with the nature reserves relative to their locations in different province-level administrative regions and different geographical areas. The top three provinces that have the highest number of nature reserves open to ecological tourism are Jiangxi, Yunnan and Shandong, and the top ten provinces in the list of number of nature reserves open to ecological tourism have a total of 352 reserves altogether, accounting for 62.5% of the total in China. The top three geographic regions that are the highest in development scale of ecological tourism are Southwest, Central South and North China, and among them, Southwest China is much higher than the others in scale and revenue of ecological tourism, accounting for 34.7% and 64.3% of the nation's, respectively.

Key words: ecological tourism, China nature reserve, negative influence, natural resources tourism