英国河道旅游发展概况与评述

Overview and Comments on the British Canal Tourism

内河河道曾是货物运输的主要通道,后因19世纪铁路的发展而逐渐没落。近些年,随着人们生活习惯的改变,欧洲诸国内河逐渐转型为以休闲旅游为主,成为户外娱乐的优选场所。发展河道旅游不仅重新恢复了运河的生机,也有效促进了周边乡镇的发展,带来了可观的社会和经济效益。本文简述了英国内河的兴衰历程,系统介绍了支持其河道发展的组织构架、资金来源、河道修复计划等,评述了发展内河旅游所带来的社会和经济效益,以期为我国的内河发展提供借鉴思路。

Inland river channels once were the main channel for transporting cargo and they were gradually disappeared later with the development of the railway in the 19 th century.In recent years,with the change of people’s life styles,the inland rivers of different countries in European are gradually transformed for recreation tourism,becoming the prior place for outdoors recreation.Developing the tourism of river channels can not only restore the vitality of the canal,but also promote the development of the surrounding towns efficiently,bringing substantial social and economic benefits.This paper made a brief introduction of the rise and fall history of inland river in Britain,introduced systematically the aspects like organizational structure,capital source,river restoration plan and etc,that supported its river channels’development,and reviewed the social and economic benefits brought by developing inland river tourism,with a view to provide a reference for the development of inland rivers in China.