A Study On City's Visitor Center

Since the World War II, the world has presented peaceful international environment, the international tourism develops quickly, international traveling population and traveling incomes grow higher and higher. The tourism has already become the world's biggest industry, all the countries in the world treat tourism as country pillar industry or the main item industry. It is pivotal to the world economics function, it already becomes the new economical growth spot. Tourism receives attentions from all the countries' governments and the social from all walks of life day by day.The city information service function is an important constituent of the city function, it is the city foreign demonstration window, its service quality will directly affect the first impression of the city by tourists. But there are not any public buildings can provide abundant professional traveling information service and brochures or maps for free in our country's cities. Such present situation is disadvantageous to our country cities'development and tourism development. This article writing intention is to propose the conception of city's visitor center when our country city information service function is not perfect. It proposes the idea to build visitor centers in our cities, and discusses the importance and developing foreground of the visitor center base the mature experience from foreign countries.First of all, the article elaborates the conception of visitor center, limits the article research object is the city's visitor center, and analyzes the significance of visitor center to the city.Secondly, the article elaborates the generating process and the development situation of visitor center according time sequence. It emphatically narrates the American city's visitor center development survey, as well as some present researches of visitor center in our country.Then, the article carefully analyzes all the problems and designing principles of the location chosen and architectural design when a visitor center is being built.Finally, the article has discussed the visitor center's construction pattern in our country cities. It analyzes the developing opportunity and the challenge of the visitor center in our country, proposed the reference methods and the matters needing attention if the visitor center would be built in our country in future, and forecasts the prospect of visitor center being established in our country.This article focuses on the research of city visitor center, proposed methods and pattern of establishing visitor center in our country. It hopes will provide some useful suggestions and ideas for consummate the city functions, and hopes it will have a benefit to future correlation researches.