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| ENLIGHTENMENT FROM REUSING OF INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE TO DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL TOURISM IN MAWEI DISTRICT OF FUZHOU |
| XIE Hong-bin, GAO Ling |
| Toutlsm Institute of Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China |
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Abstract General speaking, Industrial tourism refers to that the modern industrial enterprises attract tourists with producing factories, producing lines, tools, materials, industrial technology, handcrafts industry, etc, thus to make tourists know about the industrial products and its producing process, to enrich their knowledge, to open their eyes, and to satisfy their curiosity about the industry. With a brief understanding the origin and the concept of industrial tourism and industrial heritage tourism, enlightened by the three patterns of industrial heritage renovation in the western countries, namely as, 1) the industrial relics are renovated completely as the new functions; 2) the industrial relics are renovated partly as industry-related functions; 3) the industrial relics are reused as recreation parks. This paper also put stress on that the industrial tourism of Mawei is characterized by preserving and reusing of the industrial relics to make the most of the marine cultural history, instead of visiting the modern shipbuilding industry. Based on all of above mentioned, this paper brings forward of four patterns on the Mawei's industrial tourism development, namely as 1)To start the "Industrial Heritage Tourism" by preserving and reusing the relics of Mawei-Shipyard; 2.To develop the modern shipbuilding for sightseeing; 3.To built the theme park of marine culture and history for sightseeing;4.To construct the hi-tech industry parks,tax-free parks and Taiwan-investment parks for sightseeing,thus form a prefect tourism products which can satisfy tourists with an entire industrialized history from traditional industry with more than one hundred years history to the modern hi-tech industry since opening and reforming in our country. This paper names these tourism products as "live teaching materials" for national industrial history.
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Received: 08 November 2004
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2005, Vol. 20 
