| With the social development, the economic improvement and the growth of people's living standard, tourism industry shows fast increasing tendency. For the citizens who live in the big cities, the mentalities of returning to nature are very urgent, so the ecotourism activities are welcomed. The mountain areas which are near to the big cities and possess abundant tourism resources become important outing choices naturally. In order to comply with the tidal current, it's very essential to carry out the proper and reasonable tourism planning & development to the middle and low mountain areas which accord with these conditions.The traditional tourism planning theories always overemphasize the development of tourism resources. With the improvement of environment protection consciousness, great attention to the environment is more and more enhanced in the tourism planning. Tourism landscape ecological planning newly arisen in recent years is the effective way of combining tourism development with environment protection and it is used in more and more tourism planning & designing practices. Tourism landscape ecological planning is one type of tourism planning practices which applies in the fusional theories and methods of landscape ecology and tourism subjects. This new thought, new method and new subject concept using into the practice of tourism planning has great practical significance to the perfection of tourism planning system. According to these theories and methods, this paper chooses Zhaigou area of Ningshan county in Shaanxi province as research subject and implements the practice of tourism landscape ecological planning & designing in order to provide guiding to local tourism development.The paper firstly analyzes and evaluates the tourism resources according to field investigation. Based on the analysis, the guiding ideology and principles of tourism landscape planning & designing are put forward and function positioning and image designing are done. Then, by means of remote sensing image interpretation, landscape type map is made. By using the patch-corridor-matrix language of landscape ecology, landscape pattern is analyzed and the analysis results are as follows: the area of mountain forest is very large and other landscape types are small; natural secondary forests are the principal protected landscape patches; plantations occupy large area but the tree species are monotonic, so the tree species should be increased; farmlands are located in the gully and they are the ideal sites for developing sightseeing and ecological agriculture tourism; travelling paths should be increased so as to organize tourism activities conveniently. Then, based on the characteristics of tourism resources and their locations and the analysis of landscape patterns, the whole research area is divided into 4 functional sections, and tourism activity regions are divided into 6 parts. And then every part is implemented detailed planning & designing, with different planning essentials, meanwhile some typical landscapes are designed by means of blueprints. Finally, infrastructures and environment protection facilities are planned, too.The conclusion indicates that the fusion theory of landscape ecology and tourism subjects has the novelty in theory and operability in practice. It can satisfy the demand of tourism industry sustainability and can reach the goal of tourism landscape and environment harmonious development.This paper breaks through macro limitations of former tourism planning and goes into design field, making planning & designing combine closely. It uses many professional softwares to design the landscapes and all of them show ecological, natural, simply, and practical characteristics in order to integrate with environment. And the planning & designing embodies the relevant theories about landscape ecology and pays attention to improve diversity and heterogeneity of tourism landscapes so as to create a green travelling and enjoying space with various functions of sightseeing, leisure, science popularization and experience for tourists. |
