Tourism social-ecological systems and resilience research

Good relations between human beings and the environment will be conducive to regional tourism development.It is conducive to better understand the changing international relationship between tourism and environment that we could reasonably and accurately couple tourism social-ecological systems and find their internal operating rules.The research of regional tourism needs a integrated perspective with ecological,economic and social dimension.Based on the summary of domestic and international social-ecological systems and resilience relevant theoretical research,we build a new concept and framework of social-ecological systems,and attempt to use an overall integrated perspective to analysis characteristic and dynamic mechanism of tourism social-ecological systems with external disturbance and perturbation.More over,this article presents and discusses emphatically resilience's concept,connotation and the evaluation index systems,and briefly analyzes the measurement method and recent advance of resilience.The aim is to build adaptive management mechanism and sufficiently cope with the contracdition between tourism development and ecological environment,and promotes the capicity of regional tourism sustainable development.