Research Progress in the Ecotourism Environmental Carrying Capacity

with occurrence of a series of problems, such as overdevelopment of ecotourism resources, environmental pollution and landscape ecological destruction, it is very urgent to research evaluation on the ecotourism environmental carrying capacity (hereinafter as EECC). It is of great significance for such research and application to the sustainable development of tourist industry and ecotope protection for tourism district. This paper summarizes origin and evolution of the domestic and international concept of ecotourism bearing capacity, systematically summarizes and analyzes concept, classification, evaluation indexes and research method about the ecotourism bearing capacity. Finally, it concludes the space remains to be improved during the current research on ecotourism bearing capacity, and prospects on future research direction.