What are the basic principles for planning tourist towns?

Characteristic towns are future-oriented new industrial ecology and growth spaces. The construction of "characteristic towns" under the new normal is mainly to integrate functions such as industrial transformation and upgrading, cultural resource mining, and tourism brand building to become a heritage A platform for cultural and urban-rural co-ordination to realize the superposition of industry, culture, tourism, ecology and community functions, so as to achieve "special but strong", "gathering and integration" and "small but beautiful".

Under the new normal of my country’s economic development, small towns are facing new development opportunities. The first is opportunities brought by the increase in farmers' income; the second is opportunities brought by industrial transfer and the return of migrant workers to their hometowns to start businesses; the third is opportunities brought by the completion and improvement of major infrastructure such as high-speed railways, highways, bridges, and airports; and the fourth is the changes in the lifestyles of urban residents. Bring opportunities. Urbanization is the only way to modernization, and the construction of characteristic small towns should be an important breakthrough to promote new urbanization and promote the integration of urban and rural development.

Based on many years of agricultural and rural planning and design experience and practical cases, Zhongnong Futong Urban and Rural Planning and Design Institute believes that the planning and design of characteristic small towns should be based on the actual situation of regional development and its own core competitiveness. The fundamental principle is to farm when it is suitable for farming, to work when it is suitable for industry, and to travel when it is suitable for tourism. For some suburban areas that are relatively close to large and medium-sized cities and have convenient and fast transportation, many regional tourism elements, profound folk culture, distinctive themes and unique topography, they should vigorously integrate rural areas in planning, design and later construction and operation. Tourism development, through rural tourism, drives the sales of specialty agricultural products, solves rural employment, provides space for returning to hometowns to start businesses, increases farmers' income, and builds characteristic small towns.