Integrated Sustainable Development of Culture into Tourist Map Design: A Case from Foshan, China

Abstract

As the fourth pillar of sustainable development, culture is widely recognized as contributing to human wellbeing. The distinctive culture of cities is an important driving force for attracting visitors to destinations for tourism consumption. Since historical cities have important cultural and historical values, the design of their tourist maps needs not only geographic positioning and artistic aesthetics, but also a systematic design method to present the connotation of regional cultures, so as to enhance the local cultural identity of hosts and the cultural cognition of visitors, and to drive the local tourism economy, improve the regional environment, promote cultural transmission and inheritance with the help of tourist map design in terms of cultural sustainability, which ultimately achieves sustainable development of human wellbeing. Taking Foshan, a national historical city, as an example, combined with the cultural gene and the cultural hierarchy theory, this study analyzes and summarizes the regional culture of Foshan from three aspects: material cultural gene, intangible cultural gene and spiritual cultural gene. This study also comprehensively presents the geographical information and historical or humanistic characteristics of the city through direct translation, narrative translation, and metaphor translation, which provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the integration of regional cultures into tourist map design.

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“…Similarly, Su et al proposed a readable framework in 2021 by distinguishing the narrative features and spatio-temporal dimensions of areas with historical cultural features to form a narrative map [13]. In 2022, Zhou et al constructed an expression framework for regional culture based on the cultural gene and the cultural hierarchy theory and designed a tourism map using narrative techniques [27]. However, these studies have not fully elucidated the relationship between maps and structural linguistics, which is a prerequisite for effective storytelling [28].…”

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“…The local climate and species habitat environment in the LLNWP were taken into account in landscape planning that conformed to the relevant research results [ 53 ]. Moreover, the enhancement of the cultural function of a wetland park can drive the local tourism economy [ 54 ]. The research region is connected to metropolitan residential areas, and the most important cultural services are entertainment and education.…”