Coordinated development of environment and tourism in China using grey relational analysis

Coordinated development of tourism and environment is of great significance to the development of human society. The assessment of current development of tourism and environment in China using the theory of grey system established a relationship model for the coordinated development of tourism and environment. Based on the statistics of the development indicators of tourism and environment in China from 2007 to 2015, this paper analyzes the coordinated development of the relationship between them. The analysis results show that the correlation coefficient of tourism and environmental development indicators in China is 0.530, which has the same direction and positive correlation in general. Tourism receipts, domestic tourist arrivals and domestic tourism receipts are the strong correlation tourism development indicators of environmental development. International tourism receipts and international tourist arrivals account for 50% of moderate correlation tourism development indicators of environmental development. Total amount of the wastewater discharge and total number of nature reserve are the strong correlation environmental development indicators of tourism development. This shows that tourism development has an important influence on the environment.