| With the development of society and the improvement of living standard, an increasing amount of time is available for people to enjoy leisure time in the parks sprawled around the city. Wetland park, with its particularly ecological environment, graceful waterfowls and its unique wetland plants, attracts a stream of tourists to visit and entertain. In recent years, in order to meet the tourists’ rising demands of visit and entertainment in wetland parks, many places follow suit and set out to build equivalent wetland parks which also has become a fashion. However, due to the inefficient operation and administration, the scanty designation and technology, ecological environment has not been well protected and protection function of the wetland park has not been in full swing, either. Some wetland parks focus on the blind pursuit of economic benefits to attract tourists as many as possible and in that case, neglected the reasonable control of tourists. Recreational activities in some wetland parks were set up according to those of other ordinary parks, which leads to some programs strayed out of the ecological protection of wetland parks. For example, the pleasure-boat activity in some inappropriate places, some recreation facilities contradicting to environmental protection, and even the resorts in some wetland parks, all of which will molest wetland creatures, will impose potential threat on wetland ecological environment and may even exert directly devastating influence. Therefore, it is very indispensable to carry out the research about how to design reasonable and scientific recreational activities in the Wetland park.The main content of this paper is divided into three parts. First, the classification of the characteristics involved in recreational activities in wetland parks by comparing the recreational activities of wetland parks with those of ordinary parks. In general, three characteristics of recreational activities in wetland parks include entertainment activity on the basis of approaching the wetland, cognitive and scientific activity by learning wetland, experiencing and participating activity by integration into the wetland. Space classification derived from the three recreational characteristics contain viewing, cognitive and experiencing parts. Second, the space distribution of recreational activities, which aims at summarizing recreational rules of distinctive activity space by analyzing the recreational spots, density, the distance between recreational spots and conservative areas in the wetland park and related overlapping activity space. Third, measurement about the environmental capacity of tourism and questionnaire about activities of tourists’ perception. This paper mainly adopted the following research methods: case study, document reading, field survey, project practice and questionnaire.The research conclusion mainly includes the following:First, the recreational activity should be restricted to such a certain range that it is not necessary to carry out activities within the whole park, in general no more than 60% of the gross area in the wetland park is appropriately available to recreational activities.Second, recreational activity for experience should be arranged in the area far away from the central conservative region, whose distance to recreational spot should not be less than 100 m.Third, the density of recreational activities should be in the charge, especially for those viewing space, whose density should be within 7000m2 for each. Some large recreational activities for experience should be allocated closely with density of about 5000m2 each.Forth, recreational activities of wetland park should be relatively enclosed. If the gross area of a wetland park is more than 60 hm2 and the distribution of wetland rare plants and animals is scattered, the method of enclosing visitors within one area is more preferable. If the gross area of a wetland park is comparatively small with no more than 55hm2 and the distribution of rare plants and animals is intensive, it is better to open the space for recreational activity and enclose space for plants and animals. Some specific arrangements have to be made according to actual condition of the wetland park.Fifth, the amount of tourists in the wetland park should conform to environmental capacity of tourism. recreational activity reach its peak in May, July and August, so that it is appropriate to limit the time for entertainment. Appointment in advance is a way to control the amount of tourists.Sixth, it is not suitable to carry out boat-tour activities if the water area is small and with rare plants and animals.Seventh, recreational activities in the wetland park should adapt to local conditions so its thesis should focus on local wetland plants and animals and combine with local culture and history.The paper aims at putting forward characteristics of recreational activity in wetland parks by comparing recreational activities of wetland park with those of ordinary parks. Scientific and reasonable design principles for recreational activities in wetland park, based on design experience gained from both at home and abroad and questionnaire analyzing tourists’ perception during their recreation, will come to its conclusion. Hopefully this paper could attract some related scholars to research in depth about recreational activities of wetland park, and the objective suggestions and design proposals mentioned here could also be helpful for the construction and management department... |
