Study On Localized Landscape Design Of Ecological Tourism In Xitou Villag,Guangzhou

With the further development of China's economy,the degree of nationwide urbanization has been strengthened continuously.It becomes most peoples' inner aspiration to travel in the villages,looking for the memory of their homeland,experiencing the simple life and enlarging children's knowledge of farming,which greatly promotes the growth of rural tourism.However,the rural tourism in China is still in the early stages of development and the landscape planning and design have not yet been mature and perfect.Some areas,due to the villagers' income increase,blindly copy some patterns of urbanization,which leads to the low quality of landscape construction,a waste of a large number of rural tourism resources,a destroy of the ecological environment and the fault of rural folk culture.What's more,some villages blindly copy the foreign rural tourism in tourism planning and designing and also in construction and management,which makes the tourism landscapes lose their localized characteristics and gradually get less attractive to tourists.Therefore,it is of great significance,both theoretically and practically,to explore the applicable methods for the localized landscape design of rural ecotourism actively.From the perspective of rural tourism,this article analyzes the impacts of rapid urbanization on rural tourism landscapes,ecological destruction caused by rural tourism and the decay of local characteristics.And it also discusses the design content,key points and methods of localization of landscape design of rural ecotourism from three aspects which refer to whether the village is suitable to live,to do business and to travel,then summarizes and reflects the experience and strategy of the rural tourism landscape planning in South of the Five Ridges.This paper is divided into six parts.In the first chapter,on the basis of summarizing the rural tourism development and overurbanization of rural landscape,as well as the gradual decay of tourist areas' style and features and rural folk culture,the author analyzes the dilemma of the current rural tourism,thus puts forward the proposition of this article,and discusses the necessity and significance of localization of landscape design of rural ecological tourism.In the second chapter,the author elaborates the concept of ecological tourism,rural landscape,localization of landscape design,and analyzes the current situation of domestic and foreign research,then summarizes the significance of localization of landscape design based on the realization of combining the traditional landscape and modern life.The third chapter is the case study,analyzing the tourism landscape resources in Xitou village of Conghua and their current protection and utilization based on the practice.In the fourth?fifth chapter,based on the landscape design of Xitou village,the author studies the design from theory to practice,then from practice to theory in the following aspects like the design basis and the expression way,the design content and planning strategies,protection of ecological tourism resources,localization of landscape design etc.The sixth chapter is the summary of the whole paper.This paper can work as the model and the reference for suburban areas of South of the Five Ridges in promoting their tourism development.