Model of Ecotourism Exploration of Zhangye Wetland in Middle Reaches of Heihe River

Nowadays ecotourism has become the main tendency of tourism development,and it also becomes the effective way to protect wetland ecosystem and explore wetland resources.There is a large area of wetland in middle reaches of Heihe River in Zhangye city.Zhangye wetland is one of the important wetlands in arid northwest China,and it is extremely suitable for ecotourism development.This paper analyzed the strength,weakness,opportunity,and threaten for wetland tourism development in Zhangye city,and it established a tourism exploitation model of Zhangye wetland in middle reaches of Heihe River.The model,based on ecological security and protective development theory,centers on ecological and tourism function zoning,ecotourism products orientation and community participation.Finally,this paper puts forward the basic measures for wetland ecological environment protection and ecotourism sustainable development.