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

Liting Zhou (), Fei Ouyang, Yan Sun, Wentao Chen, Yiyong Li and Ruyu Zhao
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Liting Zhou: School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Fei Ouyang: School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Yan Sun: School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Wentao Chen: School of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Yiyong Li: School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Ruyu Zhao: School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-14

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.

Keywords: cultural sustainability; tourist map; information design; historical city; human wellbeing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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