Research On Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Tourism Development Of Tianjin Based On Heritage Corridor Theory

Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the oldest as well as the longest artificial canal. Itis one of the world’s four greatest projects and a symbol of the Chinese history andcivilization. Through more than two thousand years’ history, the Grand Canal played ahuge role in promoting China’s social and economic development. On the arrival of a newcanal tourism wave, deepening the study of canal culture and making good use of theChinese history river, not only have important practical significance for Chinese culture,but also help solve the current water and ecological problems. However, recently,questions including: how to use and protect canal heritage reasonably, how to improve theecological environment of cities along the canal, how to promote canal tourism, have beencommonly-concerned issues among scholars in tourist industry.“Heritage Corridor” is an innovative notion in the development and protection ofheritage in the world. Many other scholars’ views have been referred on issues like thecanal tourism development and the theories of heritage corridor, to explain the concept ofcanal tourism development on heritage corridor. In this work, the keys to the exploitationof the Grand Canal are to pay attention to the connection of each stream segment in thedevelopment and marketing, and to regard each segment as a whole in the managementand protection. My research starts from Tianjin canal tourism development situation.Through field research and study of other documents, my work analyzes Tianjin canaltourism development conditions and present situation, and ranks the16important nodecity of the Grand Canal in their tourism development work, through building index systemand using SPSS, factor analysis and clustering methodology. With the summary of TianjinCanal development and the comparison with other cities, the author finds out thedeficiency of current tourist industry and puts forward some potential solutions of Tianjincanal tourism development, so as to provide reference for future Tianjin canal tourismsustainable development.