JIAO Hua-Fu, DING Juan, LI Jun-Feng
In order to provide series of service for tourists, including traffic, accommodation, visiting, entertainment, shopping, etc., many people are gathered in tour area, so tourist town was emerged. This process is called tourism urbanization. Analyzing the impacts of tourism urbanization is an important part of tourism urbanization research. This paper takes Jiuhua Mountain as an example, on the basis of on-the-spot survey, studies residents’ perception of the economic, social life and environmental impacts of tourism urbanization. By comparative study, some differences of residents’ perception and attitudes are found. There are some different opinions on economic, social life and environmental impacts among the residents with different ages, genders and education degrees. The research results show that the residents have strong perception on both advantageous and disadvantageous economic effects carried by tourism urbanization, and their perception on good social life effects are much stronger than those bad, additionally, they have very strong perception on harmful environmental effects with tourism urbanization. Furthermore, the residents of different groups distinguished by age, gender, education degree, career, etc., have different perception even on a same effect factor of tourism urbanization. In the last, some countermeasures are put forward, such as selecting the rational location of tourist town, coordinating the relationship between urban planing and tourism planing, protecting the ecological environment in tour area, uniting the management of tourism industry and tourist town, etc.