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Taiwan is located at the orogenesis belt between Eurasian continental plate and Philippine Sea plate. The active plate tectonic movement, rich supply of groundwater, and the higher temperature of geothermal gradient contribute to the abundant hot spring resources in Taiwan. However, at present, the development of hot spring area is not properly controlled, which leads to the excessive consumption of hot spring resources. In order to conserve hot spring resources and maintain the sustainable operation of hot spring, the government started to enforce the Hot Spring Act in July 2005, and legalized the operation of hot spring industry. Since Taiwan has not completed the database of hot spring information, based on user charge principle and the principle of fairness, the access charge of hot springs was reduced by half in the beginning of act implementation. At present, more than 80% private operators have not applied for hot spring water right and their buildings of hot spring resorts remain illegal. After the implementation of the Hot Spring Act, the government will assist illegal operators to legitimize their operation within the grace period (the deadline of grace period is July 1, 2010).
To ensure the effective development and utilization of hot spring resources, Taipei County Government takes charge of allocating water resources and includes hot spring industry into the management of the Hot Spring Act. At present, it is actively promoting “the engineer of hot spring public pipeline.” With the concept of asset life cycle maintenance and management, Taipei County Government established a set of unified public hot spring pipeline plan for water supply in which each stage from planning, design, construction, to operation management were all analyzed and evaluated to obtain the best maintenance and management strategy of public facilities. In addition, this strategy was included into the hot spring public pipeline life cycle maintenance and management strategy of Wulai Scenic Area. This study examined the current management mechanism of hot spring industrial environment and the supply of water resources by collecting the data of business modes from domestic and foreign hot spring supply business, and investigated the operation management mechanisms of public and private markets or the third party unit responsible for the business of spring water supply established by the government. Meanwhile, this study analyzed the charge mechanism of spring water fee by using cost-effectiveness evaluation and price parameters of spring water resources from the viewpoints of users.
To maintain both the sustainable utilization of hot spring resources and the development of hot spring industry, this study collected the information of tourism resources and current industrial development in Wulai Scenic Area to analyze the conservation of hot spring resources and vision of industrial development, and to investigate the necessity of establishing hot spring industry management fund in Wulai Scenic Area, the economic effectiveness of energy saving and carbon reduction of hot spring resource recycling, and industrial sustainable development in the hope that the this study could provide references for developing relevant strategies in the future.
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