Sustainable Development Assessment of Qinghai Province Tourism Based on TEF Model

The starting point to use tourist ecological footprint in comments on regional tourism sustainable development of Qinghai Province is that regard regional tourism biological capacity as the essential restricting element of sustainable development,discuss the relationship between ecological consumption level relative to tourism activity and providing capacity of regional ecology,and then define the sustainability of regional tourism development.Taking Qinghai Province as the studying objects,this paper comments on sustainability of Qinghai tourism development,based on calculating tourist ecological footprints from 2000 to 2007,and discusses approaches to promote and improve sustainability of Qinghai tourism development,analyzing in the area which can be probably improved.