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Characteristics And Mechanism Of Tourism Development In Gateway Towns Of Large Senic Area

Posted on:2015-12-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1109330467958908Subject:Human Geography
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Adjacent to the scenic area and in the entrance position, gateway towns have specialopportunities and problems in their tourism development. Under the background of rapiddevelopment of urbanization, steady and rapid growth of tourism, combined with thetargets and tasks of the construction of the urbanization of our country, using geographicaland resource advantages, many getway towns of large scenic area begin to attach muchimportance to tourism as one of the important ways to seek better development.As a special type of tourism towns, getway town is the key power to promote scenicarea tourism development and protect the resources. Its industrial development direction,scale and size are restricted. So the gateway town often bears much responsibility thannormal community. At the same time, because of the tourism promotion from scenic area,the getway town faces the trends of rapid development for tourism industry. Itsdevelopment of economy, society, culture and environment are affected. Different getwaytowns of the same scenic spot have fair opportunities and rights of tourism development,but because of the restriction of various factors, tourism development in different getwaytowns is often imbalance. Choosing different gateway towns of Huangshan scenic area asthe study cases,south gate Tangko,north gate Gangtang-Gengcheng,East gate Tanjiaqiaoand west gate Jiaocun,the study discusses the Characteristics and mechanism of tourismdevelopment in Gateway towns of large senic area, then the different strategyies areproposed.Chapter1introduces the research background of the research, points out theimportance of tourism development on getway town development. At the same time thetheoretical and practical significance are analyzed. Finally, the research method, theresearch idea and a conceptual framework are put forward.Chapter2first reviews related concepts of this study. Then list the basic theoryrelated, especially the Tourism Area Life Cycle theory, stakeholder theory, social exchangetheory and the new view of tourism development. Finally, research findings are reviewed from the aspects of evolution process and characteristic of tourism towns, tourist impact,residents’ perception and attitude, product development and corporate behavior, planningand management, gateway community and research theories and methods.Chapter3in huangshan scenic spot getway town, for example, analysis of caseoverview; Points out that the data source and data collection process; Expounds thehuangshan scenic area portal features of urban tourism development: the core scenic areaand the getway town tourism development relying on each other, each getway towntourism economic development level, life cycle stage of development, residents tourismdevelopment importance and satisfaction perception, tourism support. South gate tangkoutourism economic development level, the highest life cycle stage development toconsolidate, north gate GanTang GengCheng tourism economic development level ishigher, the life cycle in the participation to the development stage, the east gate TanGuqiao tourism economic development level is low, life cycle at the participation stage,Simon jiao village economic development level, the lowest life cycle in the stage ofexploration.Chapter4analyzes the importance-performance perception of the residents ingateway towns. The paper uses importance-performance analysis (IPA) model to comparethe residents’ perceptions of every gateway community in different Life-cycle stage aboutthe importance and satisfaction of tourism development factors. Tourism impact of scenicspot on the gateway communities is not balanced, and residents’ tourism perceptions indifferent gateway communities are not same. Residents in every town demonstratepositive perceptions on the importance of tourism development and performance whilecompared to importance perceptions; satisfaction perceptions with the current situation arenot so strong. The residents’ importance and performance perceptions of every gatewaycommunities for tourism development in environmental and economic interests are higherthan the social and cultural factors. The residents’ tourism perceptions of south, northgateway communities are strong and east, west are weak. The residents of south gatewaycommunity pay most attention to tourism development. They are satisfied mostly with thecurrent situation of the tourism economy development while the residents of west gatewayare dissatisfied with it mostly.Chapter5analyzes the tourism support in different gateway communities. Based onsocial exchange theory, the paper chooses seven structural variables to build a structuralequation model reflecting their impacts on the support of tourism of residents in fourgateway towns of Huangshan scenic area, the paper authenticates and analyzes the relational model. Based on the structural equation model analysis and factor analysis, thepaper discusses the influence factors on tourism support in different gateway communitiesfor the same scenic area. The results are shown as follows. In general, perceived benefitsof tourism and community satisfaction has a positive effect on tourism support.Neighborhood conditions, trusting in tourism institutions and community satisfaction has apositive effect on perceived benefits of tourism. Community participation, neighborhoodconditions and trust in tourism institutions affects community satisfaction positively. Thepositive relationship between community participation and perceived benefits of tourismis not significant. Perceived costs of tourism have little to do with other variables.Residents’ perception and tourism support in different gateway communities ofHuangshan scenic area are not the same. The overall score of the south gateway townTangkou is the highest. The north gateway town Gantang-Gengcheng takes the secondplace. The east gateway town Tanjiaqiao is the third and the west gateway town Jiaocun isthe lowest.Chapter6mainly discusses the mechanism of tourism development in gateway townsof Mount Huangshan. The interaction of spatial relations and policy system, externalgetway town location, traffic conditions and internal getway town tourism resourceabundance and characteristics of the scenic area management pattern, under the pull of thehuangshan scenic area portal the different characteristics of urban tourism development.Chapter7summarizes this research, refining the main research conclusion,emphasizes the fairness of the development of the tourism, pointed out that thedevelopment of huangshan scenic spot different getway town of differentiation strategy,attaches great importance to the interests of residents, improve the economic benefitdistribution mechanism. Finally put forward the innovation of the article and the directionof further research in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:gateway town, life cycle, development characteristic, residents’perception, tourism support, comparative analysis, Huangshan scenic area
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