Carrying out ecotourism activities in the nature reserve is a complex engineering project. The destruction of protected species and ecological environment by human factors often occurs. The nature reserve may cause damage to the protected objects due to the development of ecotourism, leading to the decline of tourism resources, as well as the imbalance between the basic construction equipment and the surrounding landscape environment. In order to better explore the impact of tourism development in nature reserves on the ecological environment, this paper would facilitate the research of Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Through experiments, it was found that compared with the research based on traditional technology, VR-based technology can more accurately simulate the polluted ecological environment. The accuracy of simulation was more than 94%, while the accuracy of simulation based on traditional technology was 91%. By extracting the pollution of the ecological environment for simulation, tourism developers can be prepared in advance to avoid further deterioration of the ecological environment.

Ourania Tzoraki. Impact of Tourism Development in Nature Reserves on Ecological Environment under Virtual Reality Technology. Nature Environmental Protection (2023), Vol. 4, Issue 2: 22-29. https://doi.org/10.38007/NEP.2023.040203.

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