For decades, the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model, its iterations, and its critics have shaped the conversation about change and adaptation at tourist destinations. However, few life cycle models consider the designed landscape as a factor in the evolutionary process or as a signifier of change. This oversight is problematic because the landscape, the aggregation of consciously designed spaces and amenities, is where tourism takes place. It is the physical manifestation of the tourist destination and therefore significantly influences how the site is organized, consumed, and evaluated. To illustrate the landscape’s importance, this article proposes a new life cycle model called the Concept Renewal Cycle (CRC), which tracks the intent of the designed landscape, the concept, to understand and document destination change. The model introduces and utilizes relevancy as the variable that determines concept success and instigates action. The proposed model and other prominent life cycle models are analyzed and compared through the case study of Watkins Glen State Park in New York state. While the other models struggle to reflect the evolution at Watkins Glen, the CRC shows resilience by eschewing TALC’s inevitable, time-based decline structure in favor of a cyclical pattern where concept revision allows for prolonged maturity.

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设计作为旅游目的地变化的指标：沃特金斯格伦州立公园的概念更新周期

几十年来，旅游区生命周期（TALC）模型，其迭代及其批评者塑造了关于旅游目的地变化与适应的讨论。但是，很少有生命周期模型将设计的景观视为进化过程中的因素或变化的标志。这种监督是有问题的，因为风景，即经过精心设计的空间和便利设施的聚集，是旅游业的发源地。它是旅游目的地的实际表现，因此会极大地影响该站点的组织，消费和评估方式。为了说明景观的重要性，本文提出了一种称为概念更新周期（CRC）的新生命周期模型，该模型跟踪设计景观的意图，概念以了解和记录目的地变化。该模型引入并利用相关性作为确定概念成功和促使采取行动的变量。通过纽约州沃特金斯格伦州立公园的案例研究，对提出的模型和其他重要的生命周期模型进行了分析和比较。虽然其他模型都难以反映沃特金斯峡谷的发展趋势，但CRC通过避开TALC不可避免的基于时间的下降结构而表现出了弹性，而采用了周期性的模式，在这种模式下，概念修订可以延长成熟期限。