Researches On Urban Tourism Spatial Structure And Place Planning & Design

One of the most important challenges arising from the goal of sustainable tourism development is urban destination tourism planning. The most desirable framework for this intervention depends upon the nature of urban tourism itself as well as political and administrative frameworks. In addition to market planning, the spatial implications of urban tourism also need to be addressed. Tourism issues must compete against all other community interests in the development of place management policy, the planner must have available a range of tools in the form of methodologies, concepts, models, and theories to answer critical questions about the most desirable spatial structure of urban tourism in order to facilitate urban destination region design and development. In order to maximum the economic or social benefit and minimize the negative results, one of the most effective intervening ways is to plan & design the destinations space and construct its spatial structure reasonably. This paper analysis and relates the basic models of tourism destination place planning & design in the view of its key elements with referencing the recent research achievements. Tourism is deck chairs or ploughshares, it's a resource-orientation industry, but bring eco-environment damage to the urban destination inevitably and develop between the usage and damage. The main trouble originated by urban tourism development is the eco-environment damage to the city, but where's the root of trouble? The view of this paper considers the root as the confusion of urban destination tourism spatial development and spatial arrangement. This paper makes preliminary research on how to apply urban destination spatial strategies to construct the spatial structure beneficiating its eco-environment amelioration.The key elements of urban tourism place planning and design comprises a urban destination region, urban tourist generating markets, urban nodes, urban districts, urban circulation routes, and urban gateways. This paper makes preliminary researches on urban tourism spatial structure and its space planning and design. The study conclude mat the evolvement of urban tourism research, the key elements of urban tourism spatial structure, the growth and evolvement of urban tourism spatial structure, the urban tourist flows and its spatial structure, urban leisure spatial structure and urban recreational business districts, the development recreational belt around metropolis, the elements affecting urban tourism place planning and design, urban tourism sustainable development and its spatial development strategies and the models of urban tourism place planning and design, etc. At the last of this paper, combinations of these researches are used in the Changzhou urban tourism place planning and design.