ANALYSIS OF THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF TOURISM ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT IN HENAN PROVINCE BASED ON ENTROPY METHOD AND FUZZY INTEGRAL EVALUATION METHOD

Per the increasing demands of tourists for ecological tourism, it is necessary for the administrators to figure out the balance between regional environment conditions and the tourist satisfaction and experience. The Environment carrying capacity (ECC) is a core issue in the management of tourist attractions, and it has been valued by relevant government departments and academic institutions in a long time. However, currently there are few papers studying the ECC of tourist attractions based on regional characteristics, therefore, taking the Henan Province of China as an example, this paper established an Evaluation index system (EIS) for ECC from five aspects of tourism carrying capacity, hydropower resource carrying capacity, environmental pollution carrying capacity, natural resource carrying capacity, and economic carrying capacity. Using the entropy method and the fuzzy integral evaluation method, the ECC of ecological tourism of Henan province was empirically studied and the research results showed that the environmental pollution treatment and the shortage of water resources in Henan Province have become the main factors limiting the ECC of ecological tourism of Henan, therefore, it was suggested that the local government should introduce relevant policies and measures to cope with the situation based on local conditions.