The dynamic analysis and evaluation on tourist ecological footprint of city: Take Shanghai as an instance

Urban tourism is related to the sustainable development of city and it is an important research area of tourism. Combining with the feature of tourist consumption structure, the paper assessed tourism ecological footprint in Shanghai from 2008 to 2013 and analyzed the dynamic and the reasons based on the ecological footprint model. The results showed that: (1) For all component of tourism footprint, the proportion of tourism traffic footprint was the largest, highly could reach to 62.11%, followed by the tourism shopping footprint; (2) The proportion of fossil energy occupied the largest ratio in the tourism ecological footprint land type, followed by the cultivated land; (3) There had been tourism ecological deficit in Shanghai from 2008 to 2013, with a yearly average value of 326.28 × 10−4 hm2, showing that the pressure of tourism ecosystem was high and the Shanghai tourism was in unsustainable development state; (4) Influenced by the world expo in 2010, the total footprint of tourism and its consumption structure has changed a lot, especially in tourist traffic and tourism shopping. To reduce the ecological footprint of Shanghai tourism, we need to consider the reduction of the various components of the footprint and build a resource-saving consumption model.