| Recently, wetlands have been damaged to some degree by the irrational exploitation. The protection and development of wetland has attracted wide attention, developing wetland eco-tourism is one of the effective approaches to achieve this goal. Karst wetland is an important type of wetlands, which is of high value to develop eco-tourism because of its unique landscapes. Huixian wetland in Guilin is a typical karst wetland with beautiful landscapes and profound historical culture, which has become an pilot as the National Wetland Park in 2012.Firstly, on the basis of review and summary of the research progress of the development of karst wetland eco-tourism, the author pointed that we should study further in this aspect. And then, the author outlined some knowledge of karst wetland eco-tourism; clarified some notions such as, wetland, karst wetland, karst wetland eco-tourism; narrated the features, distribution, functions, fragilities of karst wetland; introduced the current situation of karst wetland eco-tourism.Secondly, the author evaluated the eco-tourism resources of Huixian wetland, besides qualitative evaluation, the author also used AHP and Delphi method to build an assessment index systems which was applied to evaluate the eco-tourism resources of Huixian wetland, with this assessment index system, the author calculated the total score of Huixian wetland eco-tourism resources was 7.17,which belongs to a good level.Thirdly, the author made out a questionnaire to investigate the tourism market of Huixian wetland eco-tourism, gained some useful information from the tourists about the basics, behaviors, evaluations, attitudes of them. On this basis, the author found out that there were some troubles in the tourism market of Huixian wetland, for example, the infrastructure has to be built; the hype needs to be strengthened; the products belong to a low level.Fourthly, the author used the experience of develop wetland eco-tourism at home and abroad for reference, analyzed some successful cases such as Chilika Lake in India, Sunlight National Wetland Park in Japan, Xixi wetland in China, and then,the author summarized their experience as followings:putting ecology in the first place, making scientific plans to develop wetland eco-tourism,multilateral involvement inwetland protection, from which the development of Huixian eco-tourism could benefit.Finally, the author used SWOT, IFE,EFE to make a qualitative and quantitative evaluation of conditions of Huixian wetland, the author thought that it is proper for Huixian wetland to adopt Growth Strategies. The author set up a tourism products system for Huixian wetland which contains sightseeing, cultural experience, leisure and science. The author located the tourism market of Huixian wetland eco-tourism and put forward some marketing strategies to promote it. |
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