Study On Spatial Structure And Tourism Developing Suitability Evaluation Of Religious Spots In Jiangxi Province

Religious tourism is an historical traveling form, and firstly presents as thepilgrimage activity. While with the advance of society, the traffic becomes more andmore convenient and the religious being secularized,the modern pilgrimage activityshows a more obvious change in content and form than past. The modern pilgrimageactivity increasingly has more similar characters with the modern travel. In the1980s,as the developing of culture travel, the religious culture travel which takes thereligious culture experience as the center becomes popular among tourists andgradually develops as an important branch in common tourism.Religious used to be prevailing in the past Jiangxi. There are2329religious spotsof five religious kinds. Theoretically speaking, every spot has the potential to be thetourism attraction. Based on the character of the religious traveling, such as owinglarge numbers of guest groups, having steadily traveler resources and so on, on thebackground of the religious travel being the hot spot, this paper analyzes the spatialstructure of religious spots, evaluates its developing potential and tourism developsuitability, and then proposes the advice. It would have practical meaning for localtourism industry.Taking the religious spot in Jiangxi as the object of study, applying theories fromthe economy geography, human geography, econometrics and so on, with the supportof some technology which called network fractal, AHP and entropy, fuzzy evaluation,traffic accessibility, this paper analyzes the spatial structure of religious spots inJiangxi, evaluates every spots’ potential to be attractions, and picks out higherpotential groups to measure their tourism developing suitability, lastly according theresult, some exploiting advices would be given.Some conclusions are drawn from the analyze:(1) The religious spot apparentlydistributes centrally, and presents the phenomenon that dottedly clustering aroundNanchang, Jiujiang, Pingxiang, Guixi. About70%amount of religious spots sit at thePoyang plain, and the density is larger in Poyang Lake, Fuhe River and the riverjunction than any other river. The distribution of spots largely has a large similaritywith population distribution, shows a clearly distributing regulation along the nationalroad, and richly exists in the traffic centered area.(2) The number of spots which thedeveloping potential level is “best”and “better” is132. The high potential area is less, and the number of middle area in Eastern is bigger than the Western. In the wholeprovince, most regions belong to the low potential.(3) Religious spots which havehigher score in exploit suitability are Lushan Mountain, Shengjin Tower, thememorial hall of Chu Ta, Masjid in Cu lane, You Min temple and so on. These spotsmainly distributes in the city of Nanchang, and less in Jindezhen, Jiujiang, Ganzhou.(4) The advice is that positively exploring the high suitability religious spot, fullyexposing the feature and enriching the travel production. Taking the better actualsuitability spots as the develop focus, it is good to optimize the already, explore thepotential and even creative the tourism resources. The better potential suitability spotshould develop with economy at the same step, because only the enhancing ofeconomy level can ensure the demand of travel. The lower suitability spot should putthe travel development as the second. Under the premise of protecting the ecologicalenvironment, this kind spot should develop economy standard and put the civilizationforward.