Space Changes in the Rural Tourism Area of Mufu Town, Hubei Province, China

Hui TAO; Jing GAO; Kaiqiang CHEN

doi:10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2020.06.011

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Journal of Resources and Ecology
Vol. 11, Issue 6, 633 (2020)

Space Changes in the Rural Tourism Area of Mufu Town, Hubei Province, China

Hui TAO¹, Jing GAO², and Kaiqiang CHEN^3、*

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¹School of Management, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China

²College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China;

³School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

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Fig. 1. The comparison of landscape transformation of Mufu Town (2009-2016)

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Fig. 1. Spatial turn and the social order research mechanism

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Fig. 2. The spatial changes of Ma’anlong Village in Mufu (Ma’anlong 2012-Nverzhai 2015)

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Fig. 2. The Spatial functions of ATV

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Fig. 3. The diagrams comparing land use changes in Mufu (2006-2016)

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Fig. 3. Pictures showing the resident changes (Xianghong’s House, 2010-2015)

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Fig. 4. The schematic of the village spatial changes (Type 1)

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Serial number		Mode
Serial number		Spatial transition characteristics	Spatial combination evolution
1	Heritage	The town is both a commercial service area and a core attraction. Along with the development of tourism, the old town expands into a new town with new living functions. Influenced by the industrial economy, the surrounding rural settlements evolve. The surrounding rural landscapes extend outward. The original villages are constantly absorbed by the town
2	Theme park	There is no scenic spot at first. But then a large-scale cultural tourism scenic spot is created, which develops from one or several specific theme parks at the early development stage. Theme tourist attractions and theme real estate are developed jointly at the middle and later stages. The area where there is a scenic spot develops into a town, while concentrated villages merge into a new town
3	Services for scenic spots	At this stage, urban leisure space continuously extends to the periphery. In rural areas with abundant tourism factors (location, environment, resources, etc.), new administrative jurisdiction systems are gradually formed, thus changing the ways land is used. With rural settlements becoming fewer, new towns form and rural landscape lands are protected
4	Leisure industry clusters	The high-grade scenic spots lead to expansion of the service space. With the upgrading of tourism industries, village service points no longer meet the demands of the markets. Scattered villages are distributed not far away from the scenic spots. Owing to the existence of the scenic spots, a characteristic tourist town forms in peripheral rural areas
5	Ecotourism areas	Scenic spots and the town are normally located in the urban fringe. Owing to the development of industries, rural settlements have been relocated several times, forming a new tourist town. The tourism attraction continuously expands with the development of the towns. Then leisure and holiday industries gather in the new towns, and the original villages are merged

Table 1.

Rural spatial changes from the perspectives of interaction with attractions, towns and villages

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Area (km²)	Year
Area (km²)	2006	2008	2010	2012	2014	2016
Woodland	104.90	103.67	102.70	102.65	102.57	102.71
Cultivated land	45.65	44.19	44.19	41.86	38.65	38.19
Roads	1.17	1.74	1.96	1.96	2.01	2.05
Lakes	2.35	2.34	2.67	2.67	2.87	2.87
Construction land	3.25	4.56	4.98	7.36	10.40	10.68
Total	156.50	156.50	156.50	156.50	156.50	156.50

Table 2.

The statistics of land use changes in Mufu region (2006-2016)

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Time	Characteristic industry base	Tourism service facilities
2012	5000 mu of tea gardens, 1000 mu of golden pears, 1000 mu of small peppers, 1600 mu of small fruit, 3000 of tribute base, 2000 mu of medicinal materials base, 4430 mu of vegetables	There were 35 farms and 25 farmhouse hotels. The rural hotel industry realized revenue of 1.5 million yuan
2013	More than 10300 mu of tea, grapes, peonies, rape, marigold, and lavender	There were 32 farms and 3 branded farmhouse hotels. An operator’s annual average income is about 50000 yuan
2014	20000 mu of tea gardens, golden pears, small peppers, peach trees, glutinous rice base, and potatoes; approximately 27400 mu of various anti-season vegetables. There were 19 professional farmer cooperatives	There were 35 farms. The rural hotel industry realized revenue of 3.5 million yuan
2015	20300 mu of tea, grapes, peonies, lavender and other varieties. More than 5000 farmers participated in the project of industrial adjustment	There were 35 farms, 14 of which had upgraded to high-grade homes offering 350 employment positions. The rural hotel industry realized revenue of 3.8 million yuan. A total of 203 shops were built in the Grand Canyon Scenic Area, all of which were leased to the land-requisitioned farmers in the scenic spot development
2016	Another three new farmers’ cooperatives have been established, yielding a total number of 22	There are more than 150 farms, 44 of which are star-rated farms. There are 28 branded farmhouse hotels and about 2000 employees in the whole tourism industry. The average annual income of an operator was nearly 130000 yuan

Table 3.

The statistics of rural industrial changes in Mufu

Hui TAO, Jing GAO, Kaiqiang CHEN. Space Changes in the Rural Tourism Area of Mufu Town, Hubei Province, China[J]. Journal of Resources and Ecology, 2020, 11(6): 633

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