Touristic ecological footprint:a new yardstick to assess sustainability of tourism
旅游生态足迹:测度旅游可持续发展的新方法

Assessment of tourism's sustainability presents many problems. One of the key problem is how to measure environmental impacts of tourism activity. In the past, a number concepts and methods have been used to evaluate the environmental consequences of tourism. These include tourism environmental bearing capacity(TEBC), environmental impact assessments (EIA),and the limits of acceptable change system (LAC). However, these techniques focus on changes occurring on the local environment, large ignoring the globa...