Assessing the Influence of Tourism-Driven Activities on Environmental Variables on Hainan Island, China

Tourism is a primary socio-economic factor on many coastal islands. Tourism contributes to the livelihoods of the residents, but also influences natural resources and energy consumption and can become a significant driver of land conversion and environmental change. Understanding the influence of tourist-related activities is vital for sustainable tourism development. We chose Hainan Island in South China as a research area to study the influence of tourist-driven activities on environmental variables (as Land Surface Temperatures (LST) and related ecosystem variables) during the period of 2000 to 2019. In Hainan, the local economy relies heavily on tourism, with an ever-growing influx of tourists each year. We categorised location-based points of interest (POIs) into two classes, non-tourism sites and tourism-related sites, and utilised satellite data from the cloud-based platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) to extract LST and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. We analysed the LST variations, NDVI changes and the land use/land cover (LULC) changes and compared the relative difference in LST and NDVI between the tourism-related sites and non-tourism-related sites. The main findings of this study were: (1) The median LST in the tourism-related sites was relatively higher (1.3) than the LST in the non-tourism-related sites for the 20 years. Moreover, every annual mean LST of tourism-related sites was higher than the LST values in non-tourism-related sites, with an average difference of 1.2 °C for the 20 years and a maximum difference of 1.7 °C. We found higher annual LST anomalies for tourist-related sites compared to non-tourism sites after 2010, which indicated the likely positive differences in LST above the average LST during 20 years for tourism-related sites when compared against the non-tourism related sites, thus highlighting the potential influence of tourism activities on LST. (2) The annual mean NDVI value for tourism-related sites was significantly lower than for non-tourism places every year, with an average NDVI difference of 0.26 between the two sites. (3) The land cover changed significantly: croplands and forests reduced by 3.5% and 2.8% respectively, while the areas covered by orchards and urban areas increased by 2% and 72.3% respectively. These results indicate the influence of the tourism-driven activities includes the relatively high LST, vegetation degradation and land-use conversion particular to urban cover type. The outcome of this work provides a method that combines cloud-based satellite-derived data with location-based POIs data for quantifying the long-term influence of tourism-related activities on sensitive coastal ecosystems. It contributes to designing evidence-driven management plans and policies for the sustainable tourism development in coastal areas.

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look at the russian eduCation in the field of tourism through the paradigm prism of sustainable tourism (summarizing the ConCeptual results of international sCientifiC-praCtiCal seminar of the russian-norwegian projeCt of rsuts «eduCation in the field of sustainable tourism development in russia»)

Universities for Tourism and Service Association Bulletin ◽

10.12737/23571 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 15-26

Author(s):

Пер Стрёмберг ◽

Per Stremberg ◽

Сергей Илькевич ◽

Sergey Ilkevich ◽

Елена Сахарчук ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Tourism Development ◽

State Regulation ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Local Economy ◽

Rural Tourism ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development ◽

Scientific Practical

The full and comprehensive inclusion of sustainable tourism in Russian tourism studies and thematic plans of disciplines at the present time are particularly important nowadays. Meanwhile we can note very superficial and simplified understanding of the concept of sustainable development in tourism, when they simply proclaim the necessity of taking into account natural, social limitations, and interests of the local economy, but at the same time, the Russian researchers and teachers do not have enough awareness of all the possible refractions of this problem. Passed at the 22nd of September 2016 in RSUTS scientific-practical seminar «Sustainable rural tourism in Russia» was drafted to help resolve the identified problems. Leading international and Russian experts in the field of sustainable tourism development gave the examples of their own researches which demonstrate the breadth and multi-dimensionality of sustainability in tourism. There were presented and illustrated with the method of case studies such topics as 1) the correlation of center and periphery as a factor in the long-term sustainability in tourism; 2) service orientation as a factor of long-term competitiveness of destinations; 3) the problem of finding the optimal balance between state regulation and ethnic autonomy; 4) the interests of local residents and their informing with the positive results of tourism development; 5) factor of liminality in tourist experiences; 6) avoidance of excessive standardization and universalization of tourism products as a factor of competitiveness of peripheral destinations; 7) the concept of touristscapes and taskscapes; 8) optimal route network and reference point for the sustainable development of tourism; 9) the importance of tourism for the depressed rural settlements of Russia; 10) the peculiarities of small businesses processes in rural tourism, 11) entrepreneurship as the factor of increase of stability and competitiveness of the tourism industry under crisis conditions. These and other aspects of sustainable tourism development were the subject of extensive discussion at the scientific-practical seminar, which resulted in a more complete understanding of the paradigm of sustainability in the current realities of the Russian tourism industry. The article presents views, concepts and elements of academic debate, which took place during the seminar from representatives of five countries: Russia, Norway, Australia, Sweden and Iceland. The purpose of this publication consisted in the systematization of the academic content of the reports and scientific messages, and the explanation of how they can contribute to strengthening the concept of sustainable tourism as a comprehensive and productive paradigm in tourism research and education-conceptual approach.

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UHI SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS WITH GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES: A CASE OF AHMEDABAD CITY.

10.36106/paripex/1912691 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 194-200

Author(s):

Darshana Rawal ◽

Vishal Gupta

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Land Surface ◽

Google Earth ◽

Landsat Data ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Barren Land ◽

Thermal Data ◽

Spatio Temporal

Spatio-temporal changes in land use land cover (LULC) have been relevant factors in causing the changes in Urban Heat Island (UHI) pattern across rural and urban areas all over the world. Studies conducted have shown that the relation between LULC on scale of the UHI can be an important factor assessing the condition not only for a country but for environment of a city also. Over the years it is reflected in health of vegetation and urbanization pattern of cities. As the thermal remote sensing has been evolved, the measurement of the temperature through satellite products has become possible. Thermal data derived through remote sensing gives us birds-eye-view to see how the thermal data varies in the entire city. In this study such relations are shown over Ahmedabad city of India for the period of 2007 to 2020 using Landsat series satellite data. Land Surface Temperature (LST) is calculated using Google Earth Engine Platform Surface Brightness Temperature for Landsat data and using Radiative Transfer Equation for Landsat data. LST is correlated with land use land cover mainly Built-up, Vegetation, Barren land, Water & Other and corresponding Land Use and Land Cover respectively, and it is found that LST is positively related with all indices except for Normalize Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) with strong negative correlation and R 2 of 0.51.

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The Response of Land Surface Temperature to the Changing Land-Use Land-Cover in a Mountainous Landscape under the Influence of Urbanization: Gilgit City as a case study in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region of Pakistan

International Journal of Economic and Environmental Geology ◽

10.46660/ojs.v10i3.307 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 40-49

Author(s):

Aftab Ahmed Khan ◽

Syed Najam ul Hassan ◽

Saranjam Baig ◽

Muhammad Zafar Khan ◽

Amin Muhammad

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Vegetation Index ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Northern Region ◽

Google Earth ◽

Landsat Images

With growing urbanization in mountainous landscapes, the built-up areas dominate other land use classesresulting in increased land surface temperature (LST). Gilgit city in northern Pakistan has witnessed tremendousurban growth in the recent past decades. It is anticipated that this growth will exponentially increase in the nearfuture because of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiatives, as this city happens to be thecommercial hub of the northern region of Pakistan. The objective of present study is to explore the influence ofland use and land cover variations on LST and to evaluate the relationship between LST with normalizeddifference vegetation index (NDVI), normalized difference water index (NDWI), and normalized difference built -up index (NDBI) values. This study is carried out on data from Google earth and three Landsat images (Landsat 5-TM, Landsat 7-ETM, and Landsat OLI_TIRS-8) during the period from 1992, 2004 and 2016. Land use/coverclasses are determined through supervised classification and LST maps are created using the Mono -windowalgorithm. The accuracy assessment of land use/cover classes is carried out comparing Google Earth digitizedvector for the periods of 2004 and 2016 with Landsat classified images. Further, NDVI, NDBI, and NDWI mapsare computed from images for years 1992, 2004, and 2016. The relationships of LST with NDVI, NDBI, andNDWI are computed using Linear Regression analysis. The results reveal that the variations in land use and landcover play a substantial role in LST variability. The maximum temperatures are connected with built -up areas andbarren land, ranging from 48.4°C, 50.7°C, 51.6°C, in 1992, 2004, and 2016, respectively. Inversely, minimumtemperatures are linked to forests and water bodies, ranging from 15.1°C, 16°C, 21.6°C, in 1992, 2004, and 2016respectively. This paper also results that NDBI correlates positively with high temperatures, whereas NDVI andNDWI associate negatively with lesser temperatures. The study will support to policymakers and urban planners tostrategize the initiatives for eco-friendly and climate-resilient urban development in fragile mountainouslandscapes.

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The Response of Land Surface Temperature to the Changing Land-Use Land-Cover in a Mountainous Landscape under the Influence of Urbanization: Gilgit City as a case study in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region of Pakistan

International Journal of Economic and Environmental Geology ◽

10.46660/ijeeg.vol10.iss3.2019.307 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 40-49

Author(s):

Aftab Ahmed Khan ◽

Syed Najam ul Hassan ◽

Saranjam Baig ◽

Muhammad Zafar Khan ◽

Amin Muhammad

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Vegetation Index ◽

Linear Regression Analysis ◽

Northern Region ◽

Google Earth ◽

Landsat Images

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Strengthening Community Empowerment as a Tool for Sustainable Tourism Development: The Case of Tangkoko Nature Reserve in Indonesia

Jurnal Hospitaliti dan Pariwisata ◽

10.35729/jhp.v1i1.10 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Bet El Silisna El Silisna Lagarense

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Local Community ◽

Nature Reserve ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Local Communities ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Local Economy ◽

Community Based ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development

One of the main principles a community empowerment in sustainable development is that the primary benefits should be returned to the local community and become an integral part of the development activity. However, Tangkoko as a centre for natural tourism development in North Sulawesi, Indonesia has tended to concentrate on tourism development without adequately considering livelihoods of local communities. This study is aimed to examine to what extend The model of community empowerment can be applied into the practice of community empowerment development in Tangkoko Nature Reserve. The study will contribute to the formulation of government policy in formulating and establishing the R- Urban conservation efforts, especially in the utilization of local natural resources by using the principles of sustainable development in Tangkoko Nature Reserve. In addition, the results of the study will be able to promote the use of community-based empowerment and participation through the use high-value natural surrounding environment. This study involves desktop research and fieldwork comprising questionnaire surveys and on-site observations to provide evidences of community-based empowerment in Tangkoko Natural Reserve. This study develops a model of sustainable tourism development through creative community empowerment that will ensure the outcomes from tourism will be returned to strengthen the local economy as well the quality of life of local communities.

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SPACE BASED SPATIO-TEMPORAL ASSESSMENT OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN KARUNAGAPPALLY MUNICIPALITY, A FAST GROWING CITY IN THE WESTERN COAST OF INDIA

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-5-773-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol XLII-5 ◽

pp. 773-779

Author(s):

S. Satheendran S. ◽

S. Chandran S. ◽

A. Varghese

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface Temperature ◽

Land Surface ◽

Urban Population ◽

The United States ◽

Google Earth ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Rapid Urbanization

Abstract. Urbanization is the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and more people begin living and working in central areas. According to 2001 census, the urban population of the country was 286.11 million, living in 5161 towns, which constitutes 27.81% of the total country’s population. However, the same as per 2011 census has risen to 377.16 million viz. 32.16% of the total country’s population and the number of towns has gone up to 7935. The rate of urban growth in the country is very high as compared to developed countries, and the large cities are becoming larger mostly due to continuous migration of population to these cities. India’s current urban population exceeds the whole population of the United States, the world’s third largest country. By 2050, over half of India’s population is expected to be urban dwellers. This creates enormous pressure on existing urban infrastructure.Urbanization trend in the State of Kerala shows marked peculiarities. The main reason for urban population growth is the increase in the number of urban areas and urbanization of the peripheral areas of the existing major urban centers. However, unlike the other parts of the country the Urbanization in Kerala is not limited to the designated cities and towns. The difference between rural and urban agglomerations is very negligible as far as Kerala is concerned. The Kerala society by and large can be termed as urbanized. Kerala has been witnessing rapid urbanization since 1980.The present study, is an attempt to analyses the extent of land use/ land cover changes in the Municipality over the years from 2012 to 2017 and land surface variation over the years from 2000 to 2017.The land use/ land cover pattern of 2012 to 2017 was extracted from High resolution images of the study area were downloaded from Google Earth API and the Land Surface Temperature changes were analyzed from the thermal bands of the Landsat Imageries.

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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IMPLICATIONS TO LOCAL ECONOMY

Regional Formation and Development Studies ◽

10.15181/rfds.v14i3.873 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rasa Rukuižienė

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Local Economy ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development

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Sustainability of Coastal Tourism Development: Comparative Analysis of Vietnam's Northern and Southern Provinces

Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University ◽

10.35741/issn.0258-2724.55.6.35 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 55 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Nguyen Hoang Tien ◽

Nguyen Minh Ngoc ◽

Dinh Ba Hung Anh

Keyword(s):

Local Community ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Real Life ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Research Process ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Local Economy ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development ◽

Institutional Conditions ◽

Political Conditions

This article presents major differences and similarities related to sustainability in tourism development for the Northern and Southern coastal provinces of Vietnam. The research process results pointed out that sustainable tourism development in the coastal provinces had brought about positive benefits to the national and local economy, local community and government, local community and natural environment, and socio-cultural development. Although sustainable tourism development principles are beneficial, their implementation into real-life an enormously is to the specific socio-economic and environmental context, political conditions and institutional conditions, is different in Vietnam. This article tracks how sustainable tourism development is perceived and implemented in the Northern and Southern coastal provinces' main tourism hubs, reflecting the gaps between planning and its implementation towards that end in different localities. On that basis, we propose standard solutions but other implementations for ecotourism and cultural tourism development across entire coastal area Vietnam as the overarching ways of reaching sustainability.

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CAN COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP BE A SOUL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM? : STUDY IN KARANGANYAR DISTRICT

The International Seminar Series on Regional Dynamics Proceeding ◽

10.19184/issrd.v1i1.13716 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Jacika Pifi Nugraheni ◽

Sudarmo Sudarmo ◽

Rutiana Dwi Wahyunengseh

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Collaborative Leadership ◽

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Institutional Development ◽

Local Communities ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Local Economy ◽

Literature Study ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development

Tourism development is believed to be able to improve the economy of local communities, even tourism development is one strategy in reducing poverty, especially in rural communities. But in Indonesia rapid tourism development has the potential to isolate the economy of local communities. This occurs because the tourism business is managed on a large scale by the private sector. Various studies support that this weakness occurs because there is no maximum empowerment of local communities in managing it, so that the community loses control of tourism development. This study aims to interrogate how collaborative leadership is carried out to support sustainable tourism development and how collaborative leadership should be carried out as an effort to effectively increase tourism's contribution to the local economy. To analyze this, this study uses four collaborative leadership variables namely embracing, empowering, involving and mobilizing. The method used is literature study and interview. Research locus in Karanganyar Regency. The results of the analysis show that there is no maximum empowerment of local communities in developing sustainable tourism because of there are obstacles in implementing collaboration are from the agenda of screening and integration of political aspects. This research also suggests that in order to achieve sustainable tourism development it is necessary to develop institutions in the embracing process in the collaborative leadership agenda as well as cooperation between regions. Thus, this paper can contribute theoretically in linking between collaborative leadership models and institutional development for effective sustainable tourism development. Key Word : collaborative;community empowerment; institutional; leadership; tourism

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DESKRIPSI PERMASALAHAN UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN PARIWISATA BERKELANJUTAN DI DANAU TOBA SUMATERA UTARA (PROBLEM DESCRIPTION OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT EFFORT ON TOBA LAKE NORTH SUMATERA)

Inovasi ◽

10.33626/inovasi.v16i1.130 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 11-20

Author(s):

Porman Juanda Marpomari Mahulae

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Tourism ◽

Tourism Development ◽

Development Effort ◽

Sustainable Tourism Development ◽

Problem Description ◽

World Tourism Organization ◽

United Nation World ◽

Tourism Organization ◽

United Nation

Penelitian ini adalah sebuah usaha yang dilakukan untuk mengurai masalah yang dihadapi para stakeholder dalam mewujudkan sebuah pengelolaan pariwisata yang berkelanjutan di kawasan Danau Toba. Indikator yang diukur dalam penelitian ini adalah indikator dasar dari 5 (lima) isu utama pengembangan periwisata berkelanjutan yang telah dikembangkan oleh United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan diperkuat dengan data-data yang bersifat kuantitatif. Berdasarkan hasil pengukuran indikator-indikator dasar tersebut dan pendalaman yang dilakukan dengan diskusi-diskusi yang dilakukan dengan para informan penelitian, diketahui bahwa sebenarnya penyelesaian persoalan dasar pengembangan pariwisata berkelanjutan di sebuah destinasi wisata masih menjadi tugas besar bagi para stakeholder kepariwisataan di kawasan tersebut. Berdasarkan jenis permasalahan yang ada, maka terdapat kebutuhan kebijakan pengembangan terkait: 1) peningkatkan perekonomian dengan adanya kegiatan pariwisata; 2) penjaminan kesejahteraan daerah dan masyarakat lokal dengan adanya kegiatan pariwisata; 3) pemenuhan kepuasan pengunjung; 4) pelibatan masyarakat lokal di dalam pengelolaan kepariwisataan; dan 5) penjaminan kelestarian lingkungan hidup. Kata kunci: pengembangan, pariwisata berkelanjutan, Danau Toba

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