|
|
|
| A PRIMITIVE STUDY ON THE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGRITOURISM AND THE WESTERN URBANIZATION |
| MENG Rui1, LIU Jia-wei2, YANG Chun-yu1 |
1. Department of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650092, China;
2. Department of Environment and Resources, Southwest Normal University, Chongqing 400715, China |
|
|
|
|
Abstract During the developing of the western region, the emphasis is not on the tourism, but also on urbanizations. The rural travel is a new branch of tourism, also the special aspect of the developing of western region tourism. The article analyses the interaction between the development of rural travel and the western urbanizations which base on the course of western tourism resources and western urbanizations, and put forward some constructive advises on guarantee the mutual relationship well going on. Rural travel is a new travel style that sprang up in our country in 10 years. In the article, the authors consult the notions on rural travel made by the experts and scholars in our country, and gives the concept of rural travel:the rural travel is a kind of tourism which compares to city landscape and artificial landscape, also distinguish with city on the space. It's a ecotourism activity that take the tourism resource of rural area as the attraction. There is interaction between the rural travel and western urbanizations. On the one hand, the rural travel in the west, which utilize the "The Happiness In the Rural Family" around the combined area of city and town and construction of scene spots disperse in the rural area to propel the western urbanization which base on their entity and function. On the other hand, the western urbanization is the necessary tendency of exploiting the western region, and the elevation of standard of western urbanization is the important support to the development of rural travel. The towns are the most tourists distributing center and logistic support to the rural travel in the rural area. So, the development of rural travel propels the western urbanization and the western urbanization broadens the space of the development of rural travel. There is interplay between those two. On the advice about the bengin interaction between the rural travel and construction of western town, authors think that some questions should be focused on:1. the products of rural travel should keep its' characteristics; 2. the distance between the support town and rural travel area should be proper; 3.the image of tourism products and town should be concurred; 4. the development of rural travel and construction of town should be accorded; 5. the different beneficiaries during the development of rural travel should be handled appropriatly.
|
|
Received: 19 June 2000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2002, Vol. 17 
