Discussing On Ecotourism Planning In Rural Area

Since 1990's, ecotourism had been flourished for its original and knowledge nature in China. As an undeveloped virgin land, rural area has become an important object of developing ecotourism. At present, lots of villages hang on to ecotourism as economic life lines. The lack of planning has led to a series of ecological and social problems, the stabilization and safety of ecosystem may be hard hit. However, few systemic and overall researches on how to plan ecotourism in rural area and what the procedure and content of planning it is.Based on the understanding of the meaning of ecotourism in rural area, this paper establishes a set of planning procedure of ecotourism in rural area, by the analysis of the problems in its actuality development and benefiting from the experience on correlative planning. This paper study preliminarily the hardcore contents of ecotourism planning in rural area on principles of ecological security, ecological beauty and cycle of matter, and then take a case study on a village called Yushanwu in Anji county. The main findings are shown as follows:(1) Regarding ecological environment preserving as its basis principle, ecotourism planning in rural area is using the methods of landscape ecology and ecology to set up a tourism environment, which can supply enjoyment, cognition, cultivation and experience of nature, and realize the sustainable development of rural areas.(2) Circling the local community participation of planning, its procedure consists of inventory survey, potential analysis and development goal of its exploitation, use zoning, the capacity of ecotourism environment, landscape designing, ecological design of service infrastructure for ecotourism and safeguard measures.(3) The landscape design of ecotourism in rural area should bases on site analysis and site feelings cultivation, follows the mode of "patch-corridor-matrix", and aims at nature attraction, ecological features and beautiful scenery. And build aecotourism landscape pattern of "spice of fields", "exposure to the secret of marsh" and "feelings into landscape"(4) Carrying out ecological design on service infrastructure, such as farmyard, water resources system, waste disposal system, energy sources system, architectures and etc. Besides, establishing relative ecological design model by the principle of energy conservation, cycle of matter and aesthetics.(5) Local community mainly participate in such courses: inventory survey, education of tourism exploitation and ecological knowledge, confirmation of the aim of exploitation and protection, design of rural landscape and basic service establishments, and than designed a questionnaire .