On Optimizing The Spatial Structure Of Suburban Rural Tourism

Suburban rural tourism is the product of urban and rural economic development. It is a vanguard form of industry in promoting the non-agriculturalization of employment in the rural area and one of the major ways in accelerating the integration and mutual evolution of modern urban and rural civilizations. In recent years, with the rapid development of rural tourism, some contradictions have occurred, taking the form of space competition between the suburban rural tourism and urban land use, inconsistency between the quality of the employed and the demand of urbanization, and conflict between community development and protection of the local distinctive characteristics, etc. These contradictions have constrained the sustainable development of suburban rural tourism to some extent. Against the background of the urban-rural integration development, the present paper explores the relatonship between product system and spatial organization in suburban rural tourism, the spatial layout optimization of suburban rural tourist attractions, the rural culture-based product development in urban-rural cultural evolution, and the spatial organization strategy and promoting path. Discussions of all those topics may shed some realistic light on the interaction between urban and rural economy, the integration of urban and rural landscapes, the development of urban-rural leisure industry chain and rural tourism scenic spots, and the sustainable development of rural tourism.This thesis includes four parts: Chapter one is part one, which serves as the introduction of the research background of rural tourism development at home and abroad; Part two consists of four chapters (namely, chapter two, three, four and five). Chapter two is a summary of the theoretical foundation of rural tourism. From Chapter three to five, the author analyzes the relationship between product system and spatial organization in suburban rural tourism, the spatial layout optimization of suburban rural tourist attractions, the rural culture-based product development in urban-rural cultural evolution, and the spatial organization strategy and promoting path. Part three includes chapter six and seven. Chapter six explores the existing problems in suburban rural tourism development in Xi’an against the background of urban-rural integration. Chapter seven discusses the method of optimizing spatial organization, the promoting path and some strategies in the development of suburban rural tourism. Chapter eight is part four, which is the conclusion of the paper .The findings from the present research show:(1) In the process of urban-rural integration, the rural tourism layout in the development of suburban rural tourism has two main forms: one is construction and development of suburban tourism towns with the help provided by new rural area construction and tourism industry agglomeration, the other is the development of rural tourism, adjusting measures to local conditions, in the function system of urban and rural land use, which will produce the effect of“Beaded Radiation + Cycle of Rings”, a new spatial layout model of suburban rural tourism in the urban-rural leisure industry system. The author believes that, on the one hand, re-organization of space ought to be done according to the influence of urbanization and the leisure system of urban and rural residents. On the other hand, suburban urban-type rural tourist attractions and corresponding products ought to be differentiated from the traditional rural tourism. In this way, both the suburban urban-type and the rural-type rural tourism systems can be constructed and corresponding product configurations can be conducted.(2)The author adopts the genetic algorithm and CA model in the present research. The results suggest that the urban space expansion and rural tourism development present the convergence and competitiveness in terms of choice of locations, which proves the significance of rural tourism growth to urban and rural development in the urban-rural integration.(3)The rural culture-based tourism product development and space organization mainly are embodied in two aspects: firstly, preservation of the local distinctive features of rural tourism in the process of urbanization through inheritance of the regional cultural and protection of the cultural heritage so as to realize the optimization of the space structure of rural tourism; secondly, combination between the suburban rural tourism community construction with urban planning and construction so as to make the rural tourism community to be the main component of urban living space and social space and to retain the local distinctive features of rural tourism by participating in the rural tourism community.(4) Although rural tourism in Xi’an has developed to a certain scale and with some foundation, there still exist some problems, such as the contradiction between the diversification of urban leisure demands and the product structure of suburban rural tourism, the conflict between the operation and interests distribution model of suburban rural tourism, the opposition between suburban rural tourism development and rural urbanization, the dilemmas in the development of suburban rural tourism scenic spots during the expansion of urban space, and the contradiction between rural community development and retain the local distinctive characteristics of rural tourism. (5) According to the performance of functions, such as the suburban agriculture, suburban leisure tourism, suburban ecological, the construction and development of urban and rural in the suburb, suburban rural tourism in Xi’an can be divided into two basic types: the urban-type and the rual-type. Based on the two basic types, it can be further divided into three subgroups and four regions by combining its location and industrial type. The author suggests that the spatial structural organization of rural tourism product needs to start with the idea of“market analysis and route coupling structure”, and the location of tourism attractions should be based on the systematical construction principle of integration between“point”and“line”, the principle of polarization, and the principle of combination of the modern and the comfortable. The rural tourism product in Xi’an should be reconstructed and reorganized spatially based on the principles we discussed above. In the long run, the adoption of suburban rural tourism community into the urban community system planning and construction is beneficial for the diversification of urban-rural culture, the spatial justice of urban and rural areas, the social integration of urban and rural areas, and the achievement of a sustainable development of suburban rural tourism between inheritance of regional culture and protection of“ruralness”of local culture.