On The Theory And Practical Application Of Peripheral Tourism Areas

The study of tourist geography in China can be traced to the 1930's, whereas most of studies have been focused on the hot tourism areas with rich tourist resources, favorable locations and convenient transport facilities. Most experts pay little attention to the research on the moderate tourism areas. Recently, with the change in the structure of tourist consumption, the development of transportation and the overload of the surrounding capacity in the hot tourism areas. All this provides an unprecedented opportunity for the development of moderate tourism areas. Therefore, it is of both theoretical and practical importance to strengthen the research on this field. The peripheral tourism areas, one of the important types of the moderate tourism areas, is detailed in this thesis. Through the analysis on the theory and the example of Xuancheng city in Anhui province was taken as a illustration of analyzing the developing strategies in the peripheral tourism areas.The thesis consists of four chapters.The first chapter, As the introduction part summarizes the research progress and its current situation at home and abroad, and puts forward the research background, content, significance and approaches.The second chapter introduces the basic concepts and theory, and gives a systematic explanation of the connotation, the classification, the basic features and the dynamic operating patterns about the peripheral tourism areas. In addition, the strategies on the integrated development of the peripheral tourism areas are based on the specialization of the products, the planning of the images, the interacting of the different districts and the guiding of the government.The third chapter takes Xuancheng city as an example to discuss the major peripheral factors of developing its tourism industry lie in its economy developing level, tourist resources, tourist economy, tourist transport and tourist perception. Based on the analysis, the thesis points out that the emphasis of developing tourism industry in Xuancheng should be on the deep development of tourist products, the planning of tourist images, the targeting and promotion of tourist market, the interacting of different tourist districts and the tourism management as well.The fourth chapter, as a part of conclusion and discussion, states that there needs further research in this field. Compared with other researches concerned, the thesis makes certain progress in the following aspects:The peripheral tourism area is a special category with objective existence.The classification of the peripheral tourism areas is based on space and resources.Tourist resources are the decisive factor of the quality and the level of the peripheral tourism areas.The favorable and the adverse operating patterns are the two different dynamic operating patterns of the peripheral tourism areas.The thesis puts forward strategies on developing the peripheral tourism areas, such as the specialization of the products, the planning of the images, the interacting of the different districts, the guiding of the government.