Tourism environmental capacity of Wujiang Karst National Geopark in Sinan County, Guizhou Province — A case in stone forest scenic spot

Based on the summary of the research progress at home and abroad and in light of linear total amount model and planar total amount model, the environmental capacity of the stone forest in Sinan is comprehensively studied from 4 aspects, that is, space environment capacity, ecological environment capacity, economic capacity and psychological capacity. Finally, a reasonable environment capacity of the stone forest in Sinan is identified, that is the number of tourists should be7 298 in the boom season, 3 649 in the off season and the environmental capacity of the year be 1.824 5 million according to “Buckets effect”. On the above basis, it is proposed that 3 kinds of measures, traveling route, dining characteristics and management style, should be adopted to adjust the people and vehicle proportion, the timely traffic flow and the tourist automatic flow, which are the ways to realize the reasonable distribution of tourist and fully utilization of the infrastructure in the scenic spot.