A Study On The Formation Of Tourism Area Of Cultural Heritage

Although the last30years have seen a great deal of tourism areas be emerging in China, it is still lack of substantial discussion concerning about the process and cause of the formation of tourism areas in domestic academic circles. Therefore, according to the various tourism resources of Shanxi Province, this study will research and analyze the formation of cultural heritage-oriented tourism areas, taking Pingyao ancient town as an example, to expect to offer some suggestions for the future development of Shanxi tourism.This paper firstly analyzes comprehensively the domestic and foreign documents of the formation cause and pattern of tourism area, based on which it concludes the characteristics and factors of the formation of tourism area. Then by taking Pingyao ancient town as an example, this paper takes a step back to the formation process of Pingyao ancient town and summarizes the changes of tourist numbers and tourism components according to different stages. After that this paper illustrates the elements which propel the formation and development of Pingyao ancient town and reveals the cause of changes of resource attributes of Pingyao ancient town. At last, this paper discusses the borrowed meaning of the formation of Ping Yao to other tourist areas of cultural heritageThe whole paper can be divided into five chapters:Chapter1:Introduction. This chapter is about the thesis paper in terms of its background information, patterns of thinking, problems and methods, and the definition of relative conceptsChapter2:Study of relative theories of research object. This chapter has two parts:one part is the document research related to the process and cause of formation of tourism area, and to Pingyao ancient town; the other part is the hypothesis construction of the formation of tourist area, analyzing the attributes and features of the formation and making a judgment for the observing factors during the course of formation of tourism area. Chapter3:The formation process of Pingyao ancient town as a tourism area. This chapter is mainly about the history of Ping Yao ancient town and the development of her tourism. This chapter also illustrates the different stages of the information of Pingyao ancient town as a tourism area in terms of its tourist numbers and tourism components.Chapter4:The analysis of the reason for the formation of Pingyao ancient town as a tourism area. This chapter is mainly about the change course of resource attributes of Pingyao ancient town, and the supportive elements for the development of local tourism. Then the change of public opinion on Pingyao ancient town is considered as the fundamental reason for its attraction and popularity. Furthermore, what can also be accounted for the formation of Pingyao ancient town as tourism area includes the macro background of cultural heritage tourism, the advantage of Pingyao ancient town’s resources, the support from the government, the opportunity of development, the help from key figures, local people and the entrepreneurs. In the end of this chapter the borrowed meaning of Pingyao ancient town for tourism area of cultural heritage has been summarized.Chapter5:Conclusion and outlook. This summary is about the shortcomings and remained problems, as well as the conclusion and new ideas of this thesis paper.