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| A STUDY ON THE TRANSITION OF TOURISM CITIES BASED ON LOW-CARBON PERSPECTIVE |
| CAI Meng, WANG Yu-ming |
| The Center for Chinese Modern City Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract The agreement reached by the UN climate change conference held on Copenhagen in the end of 2009 re-unite the responsibility and consensus for action of human response to global climate change. Transform the mode of development has become vital in the history of human development. As the transformation of the Chinese mode of economic development develops rapidly, the development mode of China's excellent tourism cities faced new challenges, as well as many major opportunities. Rebuilding the development model of tourism cities and exploring the strategic approach of tourism cities' transition are both important practical propositions in the process of tourism cities development, which is profound to promote the sustainable development of tourism cities in the era of ecological civilization. This paper discusses the transition of tourism cities under the background of urban transformation. The authors point out that the transition to the low carbon city is the inevitable trend for the tourism development. Construction a low carbon tourism city is the advanced stage in the city' livable and eco-development process. Based on the analysis of low carbon tourism cities, the authors indicat that there are five fundamental dimensions which should be considered including low-carbon tourism public services, low carbon tourist attraction, low carbon tourism facilities, carbon-sink tourism environment, as well as low carbon tourism consumption patterns. Innovation in urban public services guidelines about low-carbon tourism development helps in creating a low carbon tourist attraction system, developing a low carbon urban tourism facilities, nurturing a comfortable urban tour environment for tourist experience, and promoting a low carbon tourism consumption patterns in tourist which the main pathways to achieve low carbon transition in tourism cities.The authors also point out that a new development pattern with Chinese characteristics of tourism cities should be established. First, the guidelines need to be made for action of low carbon development as soon as possible. Second, the cohesion mechanism should be set up for low carbon. Third, model cities are encouraged for further development.
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Received: 28 April 2010
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2010, Vol. 25 
