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With the development of the tourism year, tourism fever has become an emerging vocabulary among the public. However, the maintenance of a good ecological environment is the basis for maximizing the benefits of resources and the environment and developing tourism industry. In this paper, forest land, wetland coverage area and urban air quality were as the indicators of ecological environment quality, and the correlation between ecological environment quality and the number of inbound tourists and tourism income as well as the number of domestic tourists and tourism income in Shandong Province was analyzed. The results show that the overall ecological environment quality of Shandong Province has been continuously improved since 2008. By 2015, the forestry coverage rate increased to 24%, and the wetland area also expanded to 173 hm². The total tourism income of Shandong Province continued to increase from 245.22 billion yuan in 2009 to 587.80 billion yuan in 2014, and the number of foreign tourists also rose from 3.10 million to 4.457 million. Typical eco-environmental quality indicators such as forest area and forest greening rate had a significant linear correlation with tourism income, and the correlation coefficients were all higher than 0.85. The results can provide relevant scientific reference for the future development of ecotourism and the protection of ecological environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spatial distribution characteristics of forest parks in Shandong Province were studied using geographical concentration index. Gini coefficient, and ArcGIS analysis software. The results show that the forest parks in Shandong Province are concentrated in the province and in the five subregions. and the equilibrium degree of the distribution is low. The density of forest parks in Shandong Province is high in eastern Shandong and central Shandong but low in western Shandong. The number of forest parks in the eastern coastal areas of Shandong Province is larger than the number of forest parks in the inland areas of Shandong Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]