Rural tourism development perceived by involved local farmers: evidences from Gaochun County of China

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2021-08-11 DOI:10.1080/14766825.2021.1957905

S. Shen, Qianhong Quan

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study aims at investigating the rural tourism development perceived by involved local farmers in China with a case study of Gaochun County. A total of 25 local famers were interviewed and 3 interviews were conducted on the employees from a major external tourism developing company. The text data transcribed from interviews were categorized and analyzed within the framework of the adaptive cycle. The findings indicate that becoming a Gaochun town is an external disturbance to the activation of system release and reorganization, and the subsequent support and tourism policies from the local government can be regarded as an improvement force that accelerates the system into the phase of exploitation and then into a new cycle. Secondly, rapid rural tourism development didn’t last for a long time before confronting bottlenecks at the crossing of development. Local farmers prefer to stay in the conservation phase in the form of tourism cooperatives, while the government prefers to push the system into the phase of release and reorganization again by attracting external companies to invest on and manage the tourism development without involving local farmers. Both the advantages and disadvantages of those different approaches, as well as management implications, were discussed.

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当地农民对乡村旅游发展的感知——来自中国高淳县的证据

摘要本研究以高淳县为例，探讨当地农民对乡村旅游发展的感知。共采访了25名当地农民，并对一家大型外部旅游开发公司的员工进行了3次访谈。从访谈中转录的文本数据在适应周期的框架内进行分类和分析。研究结果表明，高淳镇的形成是激活系统释放和重组的外部干扰因素，后续地方政府的扶持和旅游政策可视为促进系统进入开发阶段并进入新周期的改善力量。其次，乡村旅游快速发展的时间不长，就遇到了发展的瓶颈。当地农民更愿意以旅游合作社的形式停留在保护阶段，而政府更愿意在不涉及当地农民的情况下，通过吸引外部公司投资和管理旅游开发，将该系统再次推向释放和重组阶段。讨论了这些不同方法的优点和缺点，以及对管理的影响。

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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives