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DOI: 10.1007/s11629-015-3747-8
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1 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China
2 Institute of economics and management, Hubei University for Nationalities, EnShi 445000, China
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Citation: Tao H, Liu JM, Deng Y, et al. (2017) Tourism sectorization opportunity spectrum model and space partition of
tourism urbanization area: a case of the Mayangxi ecotourism area, Fujian province, China. Journal of Mountain Science
14(3). DOI: 10.1007/s11629-015-3747-8
© Science Press and Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Abstract: Nowadays, tourism has become an result demonstrates that tourism industrial space
increasingly significant driving force of modern takes the Shanchong Village as a core which shows a
urbanization in China. However, it has caused pattern of local regional agglomeration and a fuzzy
varieties of problems, such as resource unreasonable edge extending along the entire Mayangxi River. The
utilization, society unfair play, and environment urban living area should be consolidated in the Shili
pollution, etc. Thus, the establishment of an efficient village with the supporting facilities and living space
and sustainable space partition model for tourism for tourism. In addition, Tianzhu Mountain forest
urbanization, from the geographical perspective, is park should be the key environmental protection area.
highly necessary and urgent. Herein, a new evaluation The case study on the Mayangxi ecotourism area
model of tourist town space, referred to as Tourism verifies that the TSOS model has strong operability.
Sectorization Opportunity Spectrum (TSOS), is Therefore, TSOS model provides a scientific
established on the relationships between production- foundation for the space reconstruction of new
living-ecology spaces. TSOS is a kind of quantitative urbanization area, and an effective tool for optimizing
evaluation model involving such factors as urban the space partition of a tourism urbanization area.
living area, ecological conservation area and the
tourism industry. Furthermore, the analysis of Keywords: Tourism urbanization; Sectorization;
quantitative production-living-ecology spatial overlap Space reconstruction; Tourism sectorization
has been utilized for space division in a tourism Opportunity spectrum; Mayangxi ecotourism area
urbanization area. This paper, using both the TSOS
model and GIS technology, analyzes the spatial
restructure of the Mayangxi ecotourism area. The Introduction
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and leisure activity for Chinese customers. Tourism environmental carrying capacity. As a consequence,
and its related industries are not only having an the development of mountain tourism areas is
increasing impact on economic growth and social currently facing a huge challenge.
development, but also playing an essential role in Progress have been made in a lot of relevant
the urbanization of China. Mullins initially fields, such as the relationship between space and
proposed the idea of “Tourism Urbanization” and urban population (Wang et al. 2010), urbanization
conducted two case studies in Australia (Mullines and social space distribution (Dai et al. 2010),
1991). As the rapid development of scenic areas and special industry power (Hong et al. 2005) and the
supporting facilities have resulted in a series of reconstruction of regional internal space (Gary et al.
environmental problems at the end of the 20th 2011). Economy and ecology are two major factors
century, Chinese scholars have to research tourism of functional areas division. The ecological
urbanization connotation, characters, dynamic components include ecological importance,
mechanisms, and development patterns of special ecological sensitivity, ecological barriers,
regions (Qian et al. 2012; Lu and Ge 2006). As environmental capacity, disaster vulnerability and
modern urbanization continues, the new growing so on. The economic factors mainly include the
point for China’s tourism will soon be transferred economic development level and the development
to small tourist towns in the future. In fact, in the potential. Meanwhile, some researches have
past three decades, these towns have been serving attempted to build a partitioning index system
as the important connecting nodes between cities through the evaluation of resources and the
and villages (Li et al. 2014). environment carrying capacity, development
Nowadays, tourism has become an density as well as development potential. Some
increasingly significant driving force for researches on space partitions have been
urbanization in China, especially for those areas conducted by evaluating comprehensive economic
that possess abundant tourism resources. Tourism regionalization, controlling the development of
urbanization, widespread in real practice, has been regionalization and developing potential
strongly supported by national policies. regionalization. Critical studies, including the state
Nevertheless, along with tourism urbanization, the space method (Deng et al. 2004), three-
lack of reasonable space partition control has dimensional magic map (Wollmuth et al. 1985),
caused severe problems, such as the excess of spatial overlay analysis (Sarkar et al. 2008) and
tourism real estate, unreasonable tourism activity statistical syntheses (Chen et al. 2015), have also
spatial arrangements, general damage to the been conducted in the area of space partition
countryside, and the destruction of ecological technology and have become the core technical
balance. Thus, it has become increasingly crucial to guidance for the current urban space management.
research means (Li et al. 2012) to meet diversified Domestic researches are mainly focused on large-
development needs and to provide users with high- scale tourism space in three main aspects —
quality leisure space in order to create spatial order, regions, cities and attractions (Xie et al. 2008).The
environmental friendliness and fair allocation of adopted research methods are mainly the space
public service resources in modern urbanization. structure measurement index(closeness, adjacency,
Efforts should be made to allow small towns to geographic concentration and fractal index),
enjoy the welfare of the developing industry, to statistics and social networks (Weng et al. 2007;
protect the ecological environment of rural areas, Sun et al. 2014; Wei et al. 2011).
and to maintain the sensitivity and integrity of the From the perspective of spatial environment,
environment with the purpose of ensuring the Clark and Stankey introduced the Recreation
sustainable utilization of environmental resources Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) theory in the 1970s
(Yoon and Uysal 2005). Towns close to the (Driver 1987). The principal theory of ROS is the
mountain areas in China, usually holding nice design of different recreational activities in
natural views, have gradually become attractive different areas to reduce the pressure of resources
tourism destinations. Nevertheless, those and ensure ecotourism experience quality. The
mountain tourism places usually have a high level ROS theory has been accepted worldwide (Butler
of natural resource vulnerability and a low level of 1991; Xiao et al. 2011). In China, the ROS theory is
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mainly applied in small-scale space control (Wang coordination rule of the new tourism urbanization
et al. 2015), such as forest parks (Han et al. 2001), space in production, living and ecology systems.
water tourism resource protection (Liu 2008), The scientific and reasonable space partitions and
ecological tourist area management (Wall and controls will improve economic, social and
Sinnott 2008) and visitor experience value ecological coordination, stability and sustainable
evaluation (Dzhambov and Dimitrova 2014). development in new tourist towns.
Furthermore, varieties of disciplines have been Taking the Mayangxi ecotourism area as an
combined to develop ROS with new theories of example, the study combines the ROS theory with
practical applications. For instance, LAC (Wu GIS space technology initially and builds up the
2010), VERP (Cerveny 2011) and TOS (Martín tourist-town sectorization opportunities spectrum
2010) have become important support structures (TSOS) to assess the spatial suitability of tourism
for the judgment of small-scale tourism spaces. industries, urban life and ecological conservation
The existing researches about modern in the process of urbanization. In addition, TSOS
urbanization have the following deficits. (1) provides the basis for decision-making during
Traditional research concentrates more on the spatial division and management. Last but not least,
independent units of cities or countries and ignores space partition by TSOS Model shows that the
the new types of rural-urban interpenetration leisure activities are increasing, new residential
settlement spaces, usually transformed by the areas are consolidating in central towns to match
advantages of location, resource and environment. the tourism industry, traditional rural landscapes
This paper specially discusses these new types of are being preserved, resource waste and
tourist town settlement spaces. Aiming to integrate environment pollution are being controlled, and
urban and rural spatial planning as a whole, this new space patterns of coordinated development
paper puts forward a newly concentrated system of between the environment and the tourism industry
administrative jurisdiction that divides the whole are being built.
space of some rural regions nearby city, with
relatively superior tourism elements, into the
development zone, the ecology zone, and the 1 TSOS Model Construction
tourism zone. The new zoning system, relying on
the diagnoses of the original characteristics of land 1.1 Tourism PLE spaces
use, helps to build an urban and rural interaction
space that adopts tourism as the leading industry. PLE stands for production-living-ecology.
The new zoning system helps to combine the With the characteristics and mutual relations of
leisure economy with part-time farming, make the PLE space being clarified, a complete and
production space more intensive and efficient, quantifiable index system that can illuminate
make the living space more livable, and make the spatial development order has been created for
ecological space more harmonious. (2) From a tourism spatial analysis. Utilizing the suitability of
microcosmic perspective, studies on the rational PLE space development as the gist, an evaluation
distribution of tourist town space, especially on the index system is built with the GIS spatial analysis
spatial evaluation factors of tourism urbanization, technology to re-estimate the functional status of
including attractions, supporting services and spatial consolidation in the tourism urbanization
ecology, are relatively weak. It is commonly seen in process as a regional safeguard for a harmonious
studies that one factor is focused on while the relationship between the environment and a stable
others are ignored. In practice, mixed land uses, ecological system. The PLE spaces are relatively
disordered spatial distribution, homogenized independent in territorial jurisdictions yet interact
tourism activities, project-changed property, with each other functionally (Ai et al. 2015) (see
damaged ecological environments and reduced Figure 1). First of all, there is an interactive
environmental quality all may appear due to the coercive relationship between the urban living
lack of scientific living and ecology space spaces and ecology spaces, and these spaces are
partitioning index system as a support. It is both spatially exclusive (Wang et al. 2011).
important to appropriately understand the Nevertheless, the tourism production space
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Figure 1 The PLE (Production-Living-Ecology) space division mechanism of the TSOS model.
embodies a duality: the tourism space has a lightly undeveloped areas with minimal management
coercive relationship with the ecological space, constraints, facility provisions and low levels of
whereas tourism service areas have a visitor encounters can provide visitors with an
complementary fusion relationship with the urban opportunity to experience solitude and have close
space. Secondly, commercial entertainment contact with the nature. Tourists who want comfort
activities are an important part of the tourism and amenities can visit urban areas or nearby
industry, and the peripheral areas in tourist sites towns to enjoy transportation services, comfortable
play an important role in the function of living facilities and convenient services (Abildttrup 2013)
space services, which results in a significant (Table 1).
overlap and coordination between the industry and
living space. Thirdly, recreational activities mostly 1.2 TSOS model
rely on the natural environment. Ecotourism can
be developed in the ecological conservation areas, TSOS is short for the tourist-town
while the appropriate development of tourism sectorization opportunity spectrum. The TSOS
resources can promote the beautification of the model aims to define partition space management
environment. Therefore, production space and and reconstruction order in the production-living-
ecology space show a permeating and ecology (PLE) spaces. The TSOS building is the
complementary interaction. Fourthly, the process of optimizing adjustment and fundamental
relationship between the living and ecology spaces transformation in PLE spaces during the course of
is the dynamic antagonism and coupling in rapid tourism urbanization and is also a
different phases owing to the developing comprehensive method of spatial structure
modernization and high level of human optimization and overall development promotion
disturbance. The scientific reconstruction of PLE between the urban and rural areas (Wang et al.
spaces can not only maximize the overall profit 2012). In line with the principle of combining
spatial exploitation but also provide tourists with comprehensive analyses and dominant factors and
differentiated opportunities of recreation reflecting the spatial difference and realistic
experience (Van and Taylor 1993). For example, maneuverability, the TSOS model creates an
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evaluation system with four levels, namely, the the material carrier that meets the demand of the
target layer (three indexes), criterion layer (9 new “mountains, rivers and nostalgia” urbanization.
indexes), sub-criterion layer (24 indexes) and Therefore, the evaluation on the suitability of
factor layer (96 indexes), from the three aspects of ecological conservation has become extremely
urban living, recreational production and important. According to the Technical Guidelines
ecological conservation space. for Regional Environmental Impact Assessment
(1) Space suitability for urban living (HJ/T131-2003) (SEPA 2003) issued by the
To make spatial decisions for new tourist Ministry of Environmental Protection in 2002, and
towns, the primary requirement is to meet the land the actual situation in specific regions, the
needs for urban development. Based on the suitability evaluation index system of urban space
research and collection of various natural development should be assessed from two aspects
environment conditions and construction — ecological value and interference strength —
conditions, following the requirement of the design with the weights determined by an AHP method
and construction, as well as the feasibility and (Table 3).
efficiency in engineering land preparation, a There are three main types of factor
comprehensive evaluation of the construction quantification of the TSOS index system, including
condition is made to provide a scientific basis to quantitative factor standardization, qualitative
determine the development degree and select the factor quantization and functional factors
urban living space functions (Qian et al. 2013). quantization (Yang et al. 2014; Wang et al. 2007).
Combining the "Standard for Urban and Rural Quantitative factor standardization mainly
Land Evaluation(CJJ132-2009) (MOHURD considers the frequency distribution state of the
2009)", the regional situation and data availability, factor value and usually utilizes the percentage
four criteria — geographic conditions, engineering precedence method, linear interpolation method
geology, hydrology, geology and utilization status and membership function value method;
— are selected for the suitability evaluation of qualitative factor indexes are usually fuzzy, and
tourist town construction, and the factor weights their quantification is performed through the
are determined with the usage of the AHP expert scoring method and set value statistics
(analytical hierarchy process) (Table 2). method; functional factor indexes have spatial
(2)Space suitability for ecological conservation gradient change effects as accessibility and water
areas level effects, and they are suitable for the
The ecological environment, as the basis for calculation of time, distance and cost. After
the development of new tourist towns, is a key quantification, all the factors are transformed into
element to its sustainable development. It is also grid data (30m×30 m grid sizes), and the town
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development suitability in each grid cell is The urban and ecological development
calculated utilizing the weighted average method. suitability of every grid unit is calculated by
The relative formula is shown as follows: Formula 1. To make the overlay analysis easier, the
final development suitability is divided into five
=∑ × (1)
categories utilizing the Natural Breaks method.
Fi is the final development suitability score for (3) Space suitability evaluation of the tourism
area I; the higher the score is, the more suitable the industry
area is for this type of development. wj refers to the Tourism urbanization emphasizes that the
relative weight of factor j for the target layer. eij is tourism industry is a trigger and dominant factor
the standard score of the factor j. Also, m is the for urban regeneration and development (Huang et
total number of factors. al. 2000). Therefore, it is extremely significant to
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clarify the development potential of tourism and with the ecological space yet can complement each
estimate its production space. Classification, other. Meanwhile, the tourism production space is
investigation and evaluation of tourism resources highly dependent on the tourism resources of the
(GB/T18972-2003) (AQSIQ 2003) proposes three scenic area. To achieve the optimal matching of the
criterion indexes — the value of resources, the PLE space and to maximize the suitable degree of
influence of resources and added value — which space targets, the regional grid cells were first
establish the evaluation system to assess the divided into urban space and ecological space. The
development potential of urban tourism and tourism production space was designated
determine the index weights utilizing the AHP. The according to the development suitability of the
details are shown in Table 4. scenic resources and urban space. The optimal
The development and punctual or linear allocation of the urban space and ecological space
distribution characteristics of most types of method in Formula 2 is as below:
tourism have a strong distance decay effect. = max ∑ +∑ (2)
Therefore, the evaluation is different from urban or
ecological suitability evaluations. The evaluation A reflects the urban space and ecological space
results of regional tourism suitability are acquired in the entire region, achieving optimal allocation;
from three steps: field investigation to determine Fi (U) refers to the urban development suitability of
the tourism monomer resource level, the area i; Fi(E) reflects the ecological conservation
determination of the radiation distance of the suitability of area i; n is the number of grid units
tourism monomer at different levels and the usage for urban development; N means the total grid unit
of Buffer Wizard tools to determine the influence number in the region.
scope. Combined with the actual situation of the In the actual analysis, if Fi(U)=Fi(E), the space
study area, the radiation distance of the tourism can thus be designated as an elastic area, and the
monomer in 1-5 categories is 100, 200, 300, 500 land use can be based on the specific regional
and 1000m, respectively. conditions. Ecological space is the developmental
(4) Quantitative PLE spatial overlap analysis foundation of tourism. Thus, it is identified as
Based on the above analysis, the tourism ecological land, and urban and ecological space can
production space and urban living space conflict be determined according to the above discussion.
Table 4 The evaluation index system of tourism development space
Criterion layer Sub-criterion layer and
Target layer Factor layer
and weight weight
Recreation use value (0.28) Ornamental value, recreation value, use value
Historical, cultural, scientific Historical value, cultural value, scientific value,
and artistic value (0.24) artistic value
Resource value Rare and unique degree
Rare species, landscape diversity
(0.8) (0.14)
Size, abundance and Monomer size, volume, structure, density;
Tourism probability (0.09) tourism period
development Integrity (0.05) Morphology and structure integrity
suitability index Tourism landscape types, relative density,
Popularity and influences
Resource distance, spatial distribution; linear, circular or
(0.07)
influence horseshoe-shaped tour routes
(0.15) Appropriate travel time Social stability, friendliness, residential culture
period or area (0.03) fusion degree, social economic fluctuation
Added value Environmental protection Environmental pollution and potential safety
(0.05) and security (0.05) hazard factors(negative index)
Notes: Different types of tourism towns result in different recreation products. On the basis of "Classification,
investigation and evaluation of tourism resources(GB/T18972-2003)", index scores were adjusted according to their
actual situation. For example, vacation tourism towns can be added to the comfort and safety evaluation index (Mao
et al. 2014). According to the monomer scores in a certain region, the resources value can be divided into 5 categories.
The higher of the grade is, the larger the influence scope or the higher the radiation potential will be; the lower grade
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resources will have smaller spatial influences. Social economic fluctuation mainly refers to price fluctuations,
unemployment, traffic accidents and noise intensity as influenced by multiple factors related to the level of the quality
of life of local residents.
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2 Case Studies
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years have not been discussed yet. (2) Since the 2.3 Results
village in Mayangxi was transformed into a tourist
area in 2004, the public service system has not yet The habitat suitability evaluation index of the
been established; the tourism support services are TSOS model determines the decisive factor of
only in their early stages, and the agglomeration production space that designates tourist attractions
industry center has not yet been formed in a large and living space as well as provides urban services
number of tourism real estate cluster communities. and ecology space to protect the ecological
What our research needs to resolve is the environment. Combining this model with the GIS
optimization and selection problem of the spatial technology, this paper calculated the weight of each
organization of regional tourism services in new type of the spatial factors and then produced the
tourist towns. (3) Mayangxi’s tourist real estate, as definite types of differentiated function spaces with
part of the distinctive resort town, is growing as a the overlapping results. For the types that are not
result of the induction of urban leisure groups and easy to determine, the results should be further
is one of the significant directions that represent refined by conducting peer reviews on the actual
the China's tourism product changes in the future, condition of the target area, regional spatial
which is typical and representative domestically. planning objectives, natural reserve limit
Based on the space reconstruction TSOS theory, we regulations and other designated ecological
should determine the spatial sequence of the function areas (Xi et al. 2015). The research has
decision-making of exploration and standardize the made the following results through the TSOS
order of space development to provide a decision- analysis.
making reference for similar regional development (1) Living space
due to the significance and theoretical value on According to the compilation of the TSOS
similar issues. model on the factors related to the urban suitability
index, living space can be divided into the grades
from 1 to 5 (see Figure 3). Without considering the
2.2 Data source
other two types of space, based on the
reclassification results, the regions with the grades
The data used in this research are from legal greater than 3 (shown in red and purple) are
investigation and staticis in the Mayangxi, Fujian
province, including the statistical year books in the
recent five years, argiculture and economy reports,
natural disaster statistical report, the overall plan
of Mayangxi (2009-2025), topographic map ( scale
of 1:10000), the 2012 survey data of land use
changes, etc. ArcGIS 10.1 is utilized to obtain
information about the usage of land, water and
other resources from the data of the land use
change. With the topographic map as the data
source, the establishment of the DEM (Digital
Elevation Model) and the grid size of 30x30 m, the
slope and elevation evaluation index can be
assessed through a spatial analysis. Information on
the natural disasters, basic farmland protection,
traffic conditions, foundation-bearing capacities
and nature reserves are obtained from the Changtai
County natural disaster statistics, Changtai County
geological disaster assessments, Changtai County
database of basic farmland, the changing data from
field investigation and remote sensing image as Figure 3 The living spatial evaluation of the Mayangxi
well as the related data. Ecotourism Area, Fujian Province, China.
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area is distributed with tourist attractions, with a which is the regional ecological center and
total percentage of approximately 11.5%. functions as an ecological security barrier to cover
Notably, due to the strong spatial penetration 56.2% of the area in total.
of tourism, some beneficial opportunities for the There is a strong interdependence and
development of tourism exist in both ecological interaction between tourism, the ecological
and urban spaces. For instance, although the urban environment and community service. The
area is a highly concentrated area for residential traditional ROS theory focuses only on the
communities, it is also a high consumption area coordination between the tourism activities and the
with catering, lodging, shopping and entertainment; ecological environment (Karen et al. 2009).
also, most small tourist towns offer tourist services However, GUNN's theory of the tourism destination
and tourist transportation. Aside from the system focuses on the spatial relation between the
operation under the constraints of the forest park, community service and tourist attractions (Clare
headstream conservation and other related 1982). Based on the practice and exploration of the
regulations, some ecotourism activities with low PLE spatial controls, although it has achieved rapid
artificial footprints and low profiles (non-group) in development in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai,
nature can be conducted in the ecological areas, Hangzhou and other developed cities (Miao et al.
and responsible tourist behaviors can be rewarded. 2013), the uniform standards of the PLE space
Therefore, although the production space in the definition and classification have not been properly
form of purely tourist attractions only accounts for formed until now (Ma et al. 2004). Given the
11.5%, the high potential space that is suitable for background of the new types of urbanization, more
tourism is as high as 30%, which just meets the studies on the PLE space relationship and spatial
basic standard of the “homogeneous expansion partitions in new tourist towns are needed to better
fuzzy boundary” of the production space. promote the tourism development and urbanization
process. Therefore, the building of the TSOS model
not only represents the evolution and development
3 Discussion and Conclusion of the management theory on traditional recreation
space but also stands for the practice and innovation
This paper focuses on the spatial management of the existing functional partition methods to
problems of new tourist towns. Based on the provide the practical theory for the orderly layout of
interactive relationship of the PLE space, the TSOS new tourist town space in the future.
model is first proposed to establish the spatial Under the background of regional differences
division index systems for "living, production and in the form of space utilization, different social and
ecology.” The model of spatial management economic development activities will lead to the
includes three main classes, nine subclasses and differences in regional space restructuring modes
twenty-four small classes for evaluation factors. and its contents (Li et al. 2014), which will
Based on TSOS model, the Mayangxi ecotourism certainly have new requirements for spatial use and
area is examined. Shili village in the southern area the corresponding regulations. Attention should be
of Mayangxi is suitable for the concentrated layout paid to the regional and stage-by-stage nature of
of urban construction to undertake the functions of the TSOS application, and innovative studies
residential settlement, tourism services and should be conducted on the regional spatial
transportation centers, featuring the most frequent management patterns, considering the local
human activity and the highest degree of conditions. Although the TSOS model yields a
interference and covering 32.3% of the total area. tourist town spatial restructuring method based on
Tourist attractions in the production space are the PLE space perspective, there is still no
distributed along the Mayangxi River from north to established quota for the proportion of the PLE
south and are centered in the Shanchong village, spaces, which will become the focus of future
covering 11.5% of the total area. The greatest part studies. Compared with the traditional tourism
of the total area is the ecological space, areas, there is no pattern to follow the tourist
corresponding to the ecotourism position and activities in new types of spaces in the TSOS model.
using the central Tianzhu Mountain as the core, Nevertheless, the model still requires further
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