| Abstract: | Taoyuan Township, locates at Kaohsiung County of Taiwan, contains special geomorphologic Landscape, abundant hot springs and tourism resources. August the August 7th Typhoon caused serious damages in 2009. Because roads connecting Taoyuan Township and other major city and natural scenery at Taoyuan Township are destroyed, tourism businesses decline a lot. Tourism is the major industry at Taoyuan Township; unfortunately it is an environmental sensitive area. Since tourism development is one of the major industries to increase residents’ economics. The reasons to cause the environmental sensitive area, people’s cognition of the tourism development in the environmental sensitive area, and people’s wiliness to travel Taoyuan Township are the objects of this research. Four hundred and fifty people were selected in this cross-sectional, descriptive study by using a structured questionnaire. Four hundred and two valid data were used to analyze as the results, the valid corresponding rate was 89.33 %. The surveys were conducted during the period of February to April, 2010. The results of this study were the followings:
1. The top three selections of tourism impacts are to realize domestic cultural characteristics, to increase job opportunities, and build more public utilizations. The last three selections are to more to problems between tourists and residents, to disturb local peace, and to increase more sins and eroticism.
2. The top three reasons to cause the environmental sensitive areas are to over-pump groundwater to cause ground subsidence, to over-develop land, and not to well-conserve soil and water.
3. The more agree the reasons to cause the environmental sensitive areas, the more agree the negative environmental impacts of tourism developments.
4. The top three selections of re-develop tourism at Taoyuan Township are to maintain the heritages and natural landscapes, to support the activities of tourism developments, and to have more tourism development potentialities. In addition, there are 64.1 % of surveyed people’s promises to support re-develop tourism at Taoyuan Township.
According to the results, people agree that there are many tourism development potentialities. Although serious damages caused by typhoon, people will support re-develop tourism at Taoyuan Township. We would like to suggest that Governments should re-plan the environmental sensitive area to maintain and recover tourism development resources at Taoyuan Township. |
