Integration of Cultural Elements: the Non-movable Tourism Development of Heritages – Example of World Cultural Heritage, the Xian Tomb Ming in China

The "Xian Tomb Ming", of listed World Cultural Heritage in 2000, is located to the 7.5 kilometers northeast Zhongxiang city in Hubei province of China. The Xian Tomb Ming built in A.D. 1540, was for the emperor Jiajing's father in the Ming Dynasty. The Xian Tomb Ming was listed in World Cultural Heritage together with other emperor's tombs of the Ming (1368 1644) and Qing dynasties (1644 1911) in Beijing and Hebei, etc. These tombs are distributed in a group of several or tens except the Xian Tomb Ming which is only one single tomb. The Xian Tomb Ming is more than 1000 kilometers far away from any of those tombs, and in the region of 500 kilometers around it, there is not other emperor's tomb with the same level and scale, either. Wuhan city is the nearest big city (6 million permanent residents), nearly 200 kilometers away from the Xian Tomb Ming, and other same-scale cities are all 500 kilometers far away. In this way, there are some problems with the Xian Tomb Ming as far as tourism development is concerned: