Studies On Spatial Distribution Feature Of Water Conservancy Tourism Resources In Jiangsu Province

Water conservancy tourism caters to the public water-loving nature with its specific water body, water conservancy project and water culture landscape as the main tourism attractions. There’re a lot of water conservancy travel cases in the world, but the related theoretical research is quite less, especially the research whose focus is on the water conservancy tourism resources. This paper takes Jiangsu Province as an example, makes a systematic analysis about the feature of water conservancy tourism resources、the space differences and the current exploitation and utilization in Jiangsu Province. It has meaning to the water conservancy tourism resources development and ecological environment construction.The water conservancy tourism resource mentioned in this paper refers to the natural water landscape and human water conservancy engineering landscape which has tourism attraction function. The author builds a new water conservancy tourism resources classification system including2main classes (natural water landscape&water conservancy project landscape),8subclasses and26basic types based on the resources’ feature.We can get the following conclusions through this paper study:First, in volume term, Jiangsu province owns1993water conservancy tourism resource monomer points which are belong to2main classes,8subclasses,24basic types. At the same time, it lacks2basic types (the glacier sightseeing and the perennial snow) compared with the whole nation. The proportions of natural water landscape and water conservancy project landscape are separately34.67%and65.33%. Among the8subclasses, hydraulic single building has the highest proportion (48.17%) while the other water cultural landscape owns the lowest proportion (0.35%).Second, the quality level of water conservancy tourism resources in Jiangsu province is general. All the main classes and sub-classes present similar hierarchical structures:The general level resources constitute the main body while the excellent level resources occupy a small share. The province’s total reserve is5443. The human water conservancy projects (with a2265reserve) occupy a more important position than the natural water tourism resources (with a3178reserve). Among the8subclasses, hydraulic single building has the highest reserve (2771) while the other water cultural landscape owns the lowest proportion (38). The average quality in Jiangsu province is1.75at a general level. Among8subclasses, the water conservancy cultural landscape is maximum and the complex hydraulic-building is minimum.Third, the water conservancy tourism resources in Jiangsu Province has distribution feature as follows:(1) The water conservancy tourism resources distribution in Jiangsu province is uneven.13cities have obvious different resource advantage degree; the highest degree in Nanjing (11.43) is9.7times as large as the lowest degree in Suqian (1.17).(2) The water tourism resource density of Jiangsu province is19.56a/1000km2, Nanjing is the concentration area.(3) The geographic concentration index of water tourism resources in Jiangsu province is31.15, it suggests that the distribution in13cities is relatively concentrated. At the same time, B class(33.25) has a higher concentration index than Aclass(32.33)..(4) The gini coefficient of water tourism resources in jiangsu province is as high as0.9508and the unbalanced index is0.3031.The resources concentrates significantly and imbalancely especially the waterfall, river and sea, water conservancy cultural landscape.(5) The province can be divided into four areas:Ning-Zhen-Yang-Tai area along the Yangtze River (it has the highest resource reserve and quality level), Su-Xi-Chang area around Lake Thai (its natural water-body resource occupies a major position), Xu-Su-Huai area along the canal (the distribution of water conservancy projects is intensive), Lian-Yan-Tong near the Yellow sea beach (its feature landscapes are the beach and coastal wetlands).Fourth, the utilization rate of the water conservancy tourism resources in Jiangsu province is as low as27.04%, and the utilization rate of natural water landscape resources is higher than the water conservancy project landscape, so water conservancy departments need to strengthen the development of engineering resources.Fifth, there are following problems on water conservancy tourism in Jiangsu province:the property right and the ownership right are unknown; the resource develops discordantly and over-commercially in a small scale; the water tourism has weak competitiveness. We can take the following measures to solve the above problems:build a distinctive water conservancy tourism brand, coordinate tourism resources protection and development, straighten out the relationship between tourism resources planning development and managing department, reduce commercial development, exploit the participatory and ecological tourism resources.