| 英文摘要 |
This article aims to establish a theoretical framework concerning the phenomenon of tourism urbanization to illustrate its cause and effect on local spatial development in a tourist city in Taiwan. Tourism urbanization is a new and rapid expansion pattern that depends on mass consumption. Unlike traditional urbanization that stems from industrialization, tourism urbanization is usually practiced in a tourist city and emerges from the city’s downtown area. Due to its rapid tourism development over the past 20 years, Jiaoxi Township in Yilan was selected as the town for investigation. Due to its abundant tourism resources and heavy investment in public infrastructure, Jiaoxi Township has quickly become the prevailing destination in the domestic tourism market, attracting many tourist visits. Development related to hospitality, catering, retail, entertainment, and second home real estate has thrived in the tourism township. The hospitality sector and vacation properties have become highly developed and have been major landscapes in the process of tourism and spatial development in the Jiaoxi urbanized area for the past 20 years. This study found that the population of Jiaoxi Township did not change much during this period. There has been no social demographic change brought about by urbanization. The study also revealed that the floating population, including the tourists and vacation property owners, is important and impacts the town. As the impetus for the push behind tourism urbanization, the floating population has replaced the migration population in the urbanization process. Therefore, the floating population is the trigger for urbanization mechanisms in Taiwan’s tourist cities. |