Lodging as a Catalyst for Historical Landscape Preservation: A Case Study of Kinmen National Park, Taiwan

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the interactive relationships between tourism activities and visual landscape changes by conducting a case study research into Kinmen National Park (KMNP) in Taiwan. The data collected from the case study were used to analyze the way in which the institutional arrangement of tourism planning can positively affect historical landscape preservation. Data obtained from one-on-one interviews and direct observation was utilized to analyze the outsourcing policy of bed and breakfast (B&B) management, the adaptive reuse of traditional houses, and their benefits to the preservation of the landscape. For historical landscape preservation, the B&B sector has been proved to be an excellent strategy to accommodate visitors and to make positive impacts on visual landscape and tourists’ experience. Thus, outsourcing traditional houses located around Taiwan’s Kinmen National Park as B&Bs has promoted place marketing and the preservation of historical landscape successfully. Also, it is a successful case of innovation in managing National Park Service landscape.

摘要

本文的主要目的在探讨旅游活动与视觉地景变迁的相互关系, 藉由台湾金门国家公园的个案进行分析与探讨。从个案研究的资料分析得到以下结论, 经由旅游规划的制度安排可以正面的影响历史地景保存的成效。个案资料是通过个人访谈与直接观察法获得, 并用来分析民宿委外经营, 传统民居再利用对于地景保存的效益。对于历史地景保存而言, 民宿在本文被证明是一个极佳的策略运用, 它不但可以提供住宿, 而且有助于视觉地景的塑造与丰富游客体验。因此, 金门国家公园的传统民居再利用成为旅游用途的民宿, 不但成功地帮助地方行销与历史地景保存, 同时, 它也是国家公园管理单位地景管理的成功创新案例。

KEYWORDS:

• Bed & breakfast
• historical preservation
• landscape management
• national parks
• Kinmen

关键词:

• 民宿
• 历史保存
• 地景管理
• 国家公园
• 金门

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. http://guesthouse.kmnp.gov.tw/.

2. East and West Germany, North and South Korea and China and Taiwan, after World War II, were separated in the period when communist states challenged the democracies of the West (Chang & Ryan, 2007).

3. The data includes both a number of visitor arrivals and departure between Kinmen and Xiamen. It is extracted from 2018 Transportation and Communication Year Book on government website https://www.motc.gov.tw/ch/home.jsp?id=21&parentpath=0,7.

4. According to the following website, we may further conclude the five main objectives of the conservation policy of traditional architecture.http://guesthouse.kmnp.gov.tw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=125.

5. Furthermore, as part of the contract, house owners are granted special rights such as three rooms in the B&B house during Chinese holidays.

6. http://guesthouse.kmnp.gov.tw/index.php?option = com_content&view = featured&Itemid = 101.

7. The total score is one hundred points.

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Ping-Hsiang Hsu

Ping-Hsiang Hsu is Associate Professor in Department of Tourism Management at Taiwan Shoufu University, Tainan City, Taiwan. He gained his Ph.D. degree from Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University. His major research interests are tourism planning and development, with a special focus on tourism economic impact and lodging sector (E-mail: [email protected]).