The Evaluation Of The Turban Botanical Garden's Functions & The Analysis Of Its Eco-tourism Potential

With the rapid development of Botanical Garden, the botanical gardens' functions and its eco-tourism potenial are concernd by morn and more people. Taking the Tupran Garden for example, this article has studied the botanical garden's functions according to botanical garden's development history; It has evaluated the Turpan Garden utilizing two garden's evaluationt criterion; At last, it has investigated and analysed the tourists in the Turpan Garden, to find out their requirements, explore the potentiality and give some ideas for the garden.The artical main emphasized the investigation of the tourists in the Turpan Garden. It has designed a questionnaire through ecology, landscape ecology, sociology, psychology, tourism science, horticulture, geography and so on. It has received the primary data from the tourists. After collationofdata and analysis, it has got the following conclusion mainly:1) At present, the functions of botanical gardens are conservation, research, science-popularization, tourism and utilization, and conservation is the core among the serval functions. As the important conservation base in north-west China, the Turpan garden is a research center with tremendous strength and has signality for our country.2) Throngh evaluating the Turpan Garden by the two garden's evaluationt criterion, and the Turpan Garden has large potenial of eco-tourism in comparison with lacal other scenic areas.3) The Turpan Garden's tourism structure includes sex structure, age structure and its tourism source. In addition, students are the major tourists.4) "Activity to popularize scientific knowledge" is the principal purpose of the tourists in The Turpan Garden, which is "the popular science tourism". But, the "ecotourism" is primary, too. 5) The tourists' feedback is focus on the Tourist facilities, especially the popular science tourism facilities.