Study on Tourism Commerce Population and Spatial Distribution in Old Town of Lijiang

With the trend of wide development of tourism commerce in heritage sites, the tourism commercialization has brought changes into the social structure, cultural atmosphere and other aspects of heritage sites. It is necessary to deeply study the theme, process and expression of the tourism commercialization of heritage sites, so as to provide the basis for effective protection of heritage sites and the proper guidance for tourism commerce development. With the case study of the old town of Lijiang, the World Culture Heritage city, the changes of population and spatial distribution brought by the tourism commerce development are studied from the perspectives of shop types, merchandise categories, operator composition and spatial distribution, and the potential impact on cultural heritage sites is analyzed.