Abstract
This study is aimed to investigate strategies for urban landscape planning and ecotourism development of Songkou Town to present distinctive cultural landscape. Questionnaire is designed in terms of economy, environment and life. Based on results of questionnaire survey, interview theme and outline are developed and designed and individual in-depth interviews are performed. Besides, through comparison with interview emphasis of report forms in related literatures, we intend to propose optimal policies on urban and rural landscape and ecotourism of Songkou town in order to provide a reference for local government and future researchers.
Highlights
Ancient towns have gradually become new travel destinations for modern people because of their special geographical environment, distinctive architecture style and important historical value
This paper is mainly divided into three parts to describe and record current cultural landscape planning and sustainable development situations of Songkou ancient town
The third part puts forward several directions based on planning of sustainable development idea of the ancient town
Summary
Ancient towns have gradually become new travel destinations for modern people because of their special geographical environment, distinctive architecture style and important historical value. Along with rapid development of tourism, many ancient towns are seriously destroyed during exploitation. With Songkou ancient town as an example, based on analysis of characteristics of ancient town tourism, this paper tries to propose a concept of “eco-culture as the main axis and sustainable development as the idea” to establish new rural tourism criteria of ancient towns. This paper is mainly divided into three parts to describe and record current cultural landscape planning and sustainable development situations of Songkou ancient town. The first part introduces history and current development of this ancient town. The third part puts forward several directions based on planning of sustainable development idea of the ancient town. The author makes generalization and summarization to propose possible strategies for cultural-ecological tourism and sustainable development of Songkou ancient town
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