Rational utilization of water resources to promote sustainable development of rural ecotourism

Abstract

Today's society is grappling with a critical issue: how to sustainably expand rural ecotourism and make good use of water resources (the following expressions are all denoted by WRs). This paper has analyzed the characteristics of rural ecotourism based on the current situation of WR utilization, starting from the meaning of rural ecotourism, and has taken three tourist villages for research on the utilization of WRs. The results indicated that the WRs used in the tourism industry in rich villages in 2019 accounted for the highest proportion (28.81%) between 2010 and 2019; medium villages reached a maximum of 18.32% in 2017; poor villages in 2014 used the highest proportion of WRs in the tourism industry between 2010 and 2019, accounting for 37.76%. Poor villages have consistently spent the largest amount of water in the tourism industry. It showed that blindly utilizing WRs in the tourism industry could not promote economic development, only rational distribution could achieve sustainable economic growth and sustainable development of tourism ecology. This paper has also discussed the problems of water utilization in rural ecotourism development using this research and provides corresponding solution strategies, hoping to provide a theoretical reference for the sustainable development of rural ecotourism. HIGHLIGHTS This paper analyzes the characteristics of rural ecotourism.; Poor villages have been spending the most water on tourism.; The problems of water resource utilization in the development of rural ecotourism are discussed.; Put forward the corresponding water resources management strategy.; It has a certain reference value for rational utilization of water resources.;

Keywords

• rational utilization
• rural ecotourism
• sustainable development
• water resources