THE KARST LANDSCAPE TOURISM RESOURCES IN SHANDONG PROVINCE AND THE WAY FOR DEVELOPMENT

In the vast limestone mountain and hill regions of Shandong province there are abundant karst landscape tourist resources, and the main types of the landscapes include the peculiar and wonderful limestone mountain and hill, the remained paleokarst denudation surfaces, deep karst valleys and gorges, stone teeth of grotesque or fantastic shape, karst cave and karst spring groups. In view of the abundance of the resource amount, the scenery singularity and the better location conditions, karst landscape is one of the most important natural landscape tourism resources with great potentialities for tourism development in Shandong province. In the paper, the features of these landscape resources are introduced in detail, the value of the resources to tourism development are appraised, the present situation of the tour development of karst landscape in Shandong are simply introduced, and some proposal to solve the main problems existed in the tourism development and management of karst landscape are put forward.