Study Of Landscape Characteristics Of Tourism-based Small Towns In Lichuan

Because of the tourism could promote economy development very much, many smalltowns which have tourist resources or close to the beauty spots start the touristconstruction. The Lichuan city is located in the mountainous area of southwest Hubei. Itis a region that the minority inhabit and has rich nature tourist resources and culturaltourist resources. As a important way that becomes rich in mountain areas, Lichuanendeavored to develop its tourism in recent years, and has obtained some good results.But at the same time we noticed that in the process of constructing tourism-based smalltowns in Lichuan, appeared the phenomenon which the town landscape characteristicshave been lost.The characteristic is a power that makes towns specially in which tourism is a leadingindustry obtain the long-time development. What is the landscape characteristic, how toevaluate an town's landscape characteristics, how to make the landscape characteristicplanning and design countermeasure, it is a very important proposition for the planningand construction of tourism-based small towns.This article first to the definition, the characteristic, the classification of the field oftourism-based small towns and landscape characteristic. The analysis focused on thesmall towns scope, tourism-based small towns sub-types, the relationship of townlandscape and town characteristics and the analysis of the concept of town landscapefeatures and so on. Based on these, this paper according as the theories of city imagedesign, landscape ecological planning and tourism esthetics, tourist psychology, tourismgeography and so on, comprehensive uses the methods of field surveys, comparativeanalysis, and induction deduction, and using a landscape design model constituted by CarlSteinitz which has six models (Representation Model, Process model, Evaluation Model,Change Model, Projection Model and Intervention Model) analyze it in five aspects: thelandscape characteristics construction status of the tourism-based small towns in Lichuan,the landscape composition and the landscape characteristics embodiment oftourism-based small towns, the landscape characteristic evaluation of tourism-basedsmall towns in Lichuan, the landscape change and its effects, the landscapecharacteristic protection and the planning and design countermeasure of tourism-basedsmall towns in Lichuan. The dissertation takes the landscape characteristic construction ofthe tourism-based towns sysytem and three different types tourism-based small towns thatLichuan township, Moudao, Nanping for example to proposes the countermeasure frommacroscopical lay, middle lay and microcosmic lay.