Study On Regional Integration And Development Of Taoist Cultural Resources In Tourism Of Henan Province

With the improvement of people's material life and spiritual living standards, tourists'travel demand emerge multi-level, personalized cultural identity. Cultural tourism has gradually become fashionable tourism projects. Taoism is a native Chinese religion. It has a pronounced flavor of the Chinese culture.Taoism and Taoist culture, which contains profound and broad ideological content, carry a lot of Chinese customs. People are attracted by the performance of its special religious rituals, the ecological and ethical thinking of"Imitation of Nature"and its'permanent concern to mankind's ultimate value.Integration of regional tourism resources is an inevitable choice when the tourism industry develops to a certain stage. Competition of the modern tourism has developed from attraction area competition to line competition, cities competition, until to the regional competition currently. Integration of regional tourism resources can benign interaction between regions, avoid vicious competition, promote regional tourism sustainable development, and enhance the competitiveness of the regional tourism.Henan Province is the birthplace of the China Taoist culture. Taoism resources in Henan Province is rich, high-quality and feature prominent, but Taoist culture resources have not been fully exploited, not created a powerful advantage of the tourism industry. The reason is that the importance attached to Taoist Culture is not enough, and the overall image of tourism resources and products is not prominent and so on. Based on the knowledge of tourism geography, tourism resources, resource integration, and other disciplines related knowledge, this paper proposed concepts of integrating tourism and promoting measures by making the use of the theories of sustainable development, tourism life-cycle, density dependence theory, biological geography competition exclusion theory etc. The entire paper is divided into seven parts.Partâ… , introduction. This part first made background analysis from integration and development of Taoist Cultural Resources in Tourism. At last, this article pointed out the research goal, significance, method and technical route of this study.Partâ…¡, summary of research. The paper provided a comprehensive analysis and commentaries on the basis of the literature collection of tourism resources integration at home and abroad.Partâ…¢, theoretical foundation. This part discussed the connotation, necessity and principle of integration on regional tourism and described the theory. The difference and contact between Taoism and Taoist are analyzed. Details of the Taoist origin, development, evolution and of its status on Chinese traditional culture are noted.Partâ…£, development on Taoism culture and its practical significance. Explored the relationship between Taoism culture and tourism culture, and introduced Taoism culture which can be transformed into tourism products, as well as the practical significance of these resources development.Partâ…¤, SWOT analysis on development and integration of Henan Taoism resources. Taoist internal strengths, weaknesses, risk and opportunities for the external environment were analyzed by SWOT in order to learn more about the development of tourism in Henan Province, lay the foundation for integration, and more good to explore the way.Partâ…¥, study on regional integration of Taoism resources. This part explored the concept of integration, as well as measures to promote this concept.Partâ…¦, conclusions and outlook. In the last part of the paper, main findings were concluded, some faults were pointed and further study programs were suggested in this study.