旅游中心地研究及其规划应用

在对已有旅游中心地相关研究回顾的基础上,探讨了旅游中心地的概念与界定方法,分析了旅游中心地理论在旅游空间规划中的指导意义,并以吉林省旅游发展总体规划为例,介绍如何将旅游中心地的理论运用到实际的旅游规划当中。

Theoretical Construction of Tourism Central Place and Its Application to Jilin Tourism Planning

Inspired by the rapid development of tourism industry in China since the late 1980s, studies on tourism planning and related theories have been becoming a major topic in planning, geography and economics.Considering the tight relationship and active interaction of tourism industry and urban development as well as urban system spatial structure, regional central places, viz.a variety of cities, assume an increasingly important role in tourism development, which is characterized by their concentration and transference function of tourist, capital and information.These centers are defined as tourism central places concerning the tourism services provided by them, such as transport for the tourists, accommodation, tourism management, tourism information services, and so on.Among the functions provided by a certain regional center, the tourist services are more and more important because of the expansion of the regional tourism while the centrality of tourism central places are more and more evident.Furthermore, all the regional tourism central places form the hierarchical structures of function, dimension and space.Higher-level tourism centers offer more functions and normally have better establishments, better circumstances and even larger population size.Also, higher-level tourist centers occur less frequently, are spaced more widely apart, and serve larger tourist areas.This article tried a creative research with both theoretical and practical perspective by focusing on the concept of tourism central places.Theoretically, a review as well as criticism of previous studies on related theories of tourism central place was briefly represented at first.Then an attempt at a new theoretical construction of tourism central place analysis was made, following an explicit definition of the concept range of tourism central place including the methodologies to analyze tourism centrality of the cities, which describes the relationship between the number, size, and distribution of tourism central places.Practically, we applied the theory to the analysis of the tourism spatial structure of Jilin Province, constituting a central part of the Tourism Development Planning of Jilin Province.By this case study, we learned that the application of the concept of tourism central places is important to comprehend the regional tourism spatial structure.Totally, this study definitely revealed that tourism central places exert an important influence on regional tourism development and should be among the key topics of tourism planning.