Dynamic assessment of tourism carrying capacity and its impacts on tourism economic growth in urban tourism destinations in China

For urban areas, Tourism Carrying Capacity (TCC) can be defined as the abilities of a destination to absorb and manage increasing tourism activities without a degradation in the tourism sector of the urban economy. To optimize the concept and assessment of TCC, this paper develops a dynamic carrying capacity model including three subsystems and 47 variables by System Dynamic (SD) method from a macroscopic perspective. Taking the top nine urban...