An Investigation on Environmental Loads and Tourism Impact of Green Island

• Main Authors: Chiayun Lin, 林佳筠
• Other Authors: Nae-Wen Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34954974410941164900

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 旅遊健康研究所 === 95 === The major purposes of this research were to calculate the environmental loads resulted from tourists and discuss the residents’ perceptions of tourism impact on four categories: economy, social culture, environment and health in the Green Island. In the first part of this study (environmental loads calculations), the following results were identified: (1) the transportation consumed the most energy (39.72%); (2) CO and HC pollutants were major emitted from the motorcycles, while the emissions of NOx were mainly from the tour buses; (3) environmental loads exceeded the management capacity of the Green Island; (4) environmental loads during high visitation season (July) was 9.4 times in comparing to low visitation season. In the second part of this research (the residents’ perceptions of tourism impact), the following results were found: (1) the residents in Green Island perceived more positive impacts on economic sector, and more negative impacts on social culture and environment sector; (2) the Green Island residents’ self-perceived health status (SF-36) were worse than that in Taiwan; (3) tourism impact perceptions and self-perceived health status were affected by demographics data of the Green Island residents; (4) there has positive relationship between the Green Island residents’ tourism impact perceptions and their self-perceived health status. In summary, the huge environmental overloads resulted from tourists may cause the negative attitudes of the residents toward tourism development and affect their self-perceived health status.