An Analysis of Clustering and Requirements of Plant Landscapes in Farmyard-entertainment Spots of Chengdu City

Key words: 
• Farm yard-entertainment /
• Plant landscape /
• AHP /
• Tourist satisfaction /
• Cluster analysis

Abstract: Farmyard-entertainment spots lying in criscross areas between town and country were a consequence that the adjustment of local culture brought about, and a kind of city forest that developed quickly. And plant landscapes constituted their important composition. The quality study of plant landscapes was less based on the landscape requirement analysis of participatory tourists, thus limiting the knowing of plant landscape atomizing for farmyard-entertainment spots. This paper dealt with the clustering and requirements of plant landscape in farmyard-entertainment spots in Chengdu City with a selection of Beihu, Sansheng Township and Nongke Village. Cluster analysis indicated that 14 kinds of plant landscapes were classified as Ficus virens and Cinnamomum pedunculatum community, Ficus microcarpa var. pusillifolia community, Elaeocarpus sylvestris community, Populus adenopoda and F. virens community, Phoebe zhennan community, Osmanthus fragrans community, Elm Bonsai community, Ginkgo biloba and Osmanthus fragrans community, Podocarpus macrophyllus community, F. virens community, C. pedunculatum community, Eriobotrya japonica community, Japanese apricot community, etc. AHP of satisfaction questionnaire demonstrated that plant landscapes and local flavour food had similar importance, but obviously lower than environment health conditions, and service quality, and yet higher than entertainment and transportation. Landscape tradeoff analysis indicated that the higher tourist ratio of media tradeoff index between 0.10~0.15, 0.15~0.20 respectively was 21.36% and 43.64%, and factors of age(below 18 years old and above 46 years old), gender(male and female), profession(retired persons and students), income level(4 000~5 000 Yuan per month), education background(master and doctor), consumption level(60-100 Yuan per day), potential consumption intention had a higher requirement for plant landscapes. Comprehensively, the farmyard-entertainment landscapes totally displayed an evenness phenomenon, and the prime factors influencing the tourist satisfaction of current farmyard-entertainment were environment health and service quality, but plant landscapes obviously affected the consumption limit.