Comparative Study Of Hainan Forest Park Development

Blue Ocean and green tropical forest are two important tourism resorts in Hainan island,However, there are unbalance development in the industrial, the former is more rapidly thanthe latter. Hainan has rich tropical forest resource, up to now,8state-level forest park,3provincial-level forest park and a number of newly exploited forest park had has beenestablished. The Forest tourism resource is richly endowed by nature, but there are widelyuneven in development in the above parks.The article apply literature analysis, field survey, questionnaire survey, comparativestudy and computer-aid analysis to proceeding comparative study on Haikou DongzhaiNational Forest Park, Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park, Sanya Yalongwan tropicalheaven forest park, aiming to offer some references and basis for the development of Hainanforest tourism. These parks are different in forest tourism market positioning, developmentlife cycle, value of resource, forest tourism orientation. Some major conclusions could bedraw from the study:(1)Among three forest parks, Haikou Dongzhai National Forest Park is mainly coverwith mangrove, well preserved and has unique ecological environment. Beside, marketpositioning, tourism orientation and the accessibility are excellent. But the park is in a lowlevel development. Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park possesses the richest tourismresource, including the precious ape with long arm and black comb. It is appraised as “NaturalOxygen Bar”, as the density of negative ion is up to8hundred thousands per cu.cm. in thearea. However, the market positioning, tourism orientation and the accessibility anddevelopment level are terrible, which inconsistent with its abundant resource. The tourismresource of Sanya Yalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Park is not to be compare with theabove two, however, it is in advanced development level and attracting numerous tourists inan endless stream.(2)The tourist of Sanya Yalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Park and Haikou DongzhaiNational Forest Park cover lots of provinces in the country, Foreign tourists Foreign tourists isthe most, the province tourists proportion were13.7%,26.0%. As to Changjiang BawangNational Forest Park, provincial tourist shares majority of the market, up to68.4%. The data indicate that park with convenient transportation attracting tourist from other province, thosewith inconvenient traffic are mainly patronized by provincial tourist.(3)In the aspect of tourist composition, the amount of male is more than female, most ofthem are young and middle-aged. Haikou Dongzhai National Forest Park and SanyaYalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Park invited most of the tourist whose age rang from21-30, those age31-35are usually attracted by Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park. Thephenomena show that young tourist favorite easy accessible, well developed forest park,whereas the older tourist values the quality of the resort. In the aspect of vocation distribution,the ratio of management position in enterprise and public institute is the highest, the next isteacher and those come from culture and educational profession, student and the other. Thatshows most of the forest tourists are those who has considerable leisure spare time. In theaspect of income structure, most tourists of Haikou Dongzhai National Forest Park and SanyaYalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Park are low and middle-grade(3001-4000yuan permonth), while the salary of most of tourist of Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park arerelatively high (4001-5000yuan per month). Majority of the tourist has academic certificatesat or above the junior college level.), that means forest tourist are usually well-educated.(4)According the questionnaire survey that concerning perception of project deferentialanalysis, degree of satisfaction of Haikou Dongzhai National Forest Park is the lowest.Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park is rated worst in transportation and shopping. SanyaYalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Park rate as best in transportation, shopping, scenic spotimage, infrastructure, management and service.(5) The idea of protection and green ecological tourism should be fully aware throughout the whole process of forest tourism product development. As Haikou Dongzhai NationalForest Park is in the vicinity of urban district and mangrove, family leisure tour, vacation tour,forest sport, popular science education, recreation and heath rehabilitation are recommendedto develop. As to Changjiang Bawang National Forest Park, further development isdemanding, such as business conference, special animal sightseeing, Li Miao flavor tour,camping and expanding, heath resort, etc. Sanya Yalongwan Tropical Heaven Forest Parkshould develop according to its existing fame and immense potential market, exploringsightseeing tour, leisure tour, business reference, film-video theme, theme restaurant, specialty shopping and heath resort, etc.