Abstract:

With the rapid development of tourist industry and city modernization, there are a lot of problems appearing in surrounding areas of tourist attractions.These problems produce a great impact to sustainable development of the tourism.At the same time,the tourists' demand of the attractions has also changed,their requirements and standard for surrounding areas of attractions are increasing,and their interests of tourists are not just limited to attractions themselves.This paper proposed the concept of tourist attraction,in which closelyrelated surrounding areas should also be considered as a part of tourist attraction.The protection and renovation of surrounding areas should then be included in comprehensive tourism planning.On the basis of characteristics in expanded surrounding areas,these areas are classified into several different styles;meanwhile,as a result of the practical needs of tourism planning and environment evaluation,a definite space range has been proposed for these areas,with the establishment of a method to draw boundary line of surrounding areas of a tourist attraction.〖

Key words: tourist attraction, surrounding area, protection and renovation, definition of borderline〖