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| ANALYSIS ON URBAN TOURISM SPATIAL PLANNING &DESIGN AND THE OPTIMIZATION & REGULATION OF ITS ECO-ENVIRONMENT |
| BIAN Xian-hong, WANG Su-jie |
| Institute of Commerce, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi 214063, China |
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Abstract In the past few years, some urban regions such as Beijing, Shanghai have experienced drastic changes due to urban tourism development. Tourism is deck chairs or ploughshares and a resourceo rientation industry. But it brings eco-environmental damage to the destination places. The main trouble originated by urban tourism development is the eco-environment damage.The view of this paper considers the cause as the confusion of urban tourism spatial development and spatial arrangement, and excess demand for resources. Urban tourism spatial development strategies mainly include that urban tourism spatial dispersal development strategy, urban tourism spatial centric development strategy, and urban tourism rationally spatial planning & design, etc.Urban tourism spatial dispersal development strategy coupled with urban tourist expansion can lead to more spatially penetrating environmental degradation, and urban tourism space infinity expansion. This paper suggests that the last strategy should be the one of the best strategies to optimize & harmonize urban tourism eco-environment. Common to all three principal strategies considered previously is the problem of excess demand for the urban tourism resource. The management countermeasures on excess demand for urban tourism resource have five forms, which are peak demand suppression; peak time dissipation; peak time demand shifting; spatial peak dissipation;spatial peak shifting, etc. This paper suggests that these countermeasures can alleviate the pressure of urban tourism eco-environment dam age and can help to rehabilitate or optimize urban tourism eco-environment.It's especially important to certain hot-spot tourist cities to manage excess demand for urban tourism resource at the period of large-scale activities.This study illustrates the relationship between the demand of urban tourists and the supply of urban tourism resource to tourists (i.e. U TECC). Identification of the UTECC is difficult and rarely undertaken. This does raise the eminently reasonable question if the UTECC is not know for most urban tourist regions, how does one gauge whether urban tourism development is sustainable? Alternatively, a cautious iterative identification process may be contemplated with a long led time. This involves commencing with a knowingly substantial underestimate of the U TECC, and then observing indicators, making adjustments on the capacity estimates thereafter. This approach would effectively require a major slowdown in urban tourism development plans, lower financial rates of return in tourism-related investments, and rationally plan & design urban tourism space.
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Received: 11 April 2002
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2003, Vol. 18 
