|
|
|
| THE STUDY ON THE CONCEPTION, PRINCIPLE AND OPTIMIZED STRATEGIES OF TOURISM DESTINATION'S ECOLOGICAL NICHE |
| ZOU Ren-ai1,2,3, CHEN Shao-yuan3, CHEN Jun-hong1,2,3, LI Xin-hua3 |
1. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China;
2. South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou 510301, China;
3. Guangzhou Institute of Geography, Guangzhou 510070, China |
|
|
|
|
Abstract With the development of the tourism industry and regional tourism growth, many countries and regions think more of that how to coordinate the local spatial relations of the tourism destinations. Basing on the researches, this article believes that the tourism destination is a special life-form which can grow independently through continual adjusting and mutual benefiting with the surroundings, and then applies the niche theory of ecology into tourism field, points out the definition of tourism destination's ecological niche, discusses it's competitive principle and evolutive law in the respect of ecology view, and finally explains practical significance of optimized strategies in detail.
Firstly, this paper puts the niche theory of ecology into tourism, analyzes the ecological phenomenon of tourist destination, and defines "tourism destination's ecological niche" as:"tourism destination's ecological niche is the function and station that tourism destination holds in the ecological survival space in a certain period, which not only reflects this tourism destination's spatial situation but also the situation of tourism factors such as resource, market, brand, information and service in the special period, range and environment." Secondly, this paper discusses the essential principle of tourism destination's ecological niche. According to the Gause theory from the ecology, the similar niche of different tourism destinations bring on the competition, the part of niche more overlap, the competition will be much fiercer. Thirdly, this article illustrates the overlap and separation strategy, the limit and expansion strategy of tourism destination's ecological niche detailedly. At last, this article makes a summary of the theoretic result of tourism destination's ecological niche, and indicates the practical significance of this study in the evaluation process of tourism resources, tourism planning and the development strategy of tourism.
|
|
Received: 13 July 2005
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2006, Vol. 21 
