Tourism community farmers’ livelihood adaptability response in the process of rural revitalization —— A two-way coupling model based on ecological service dependence and livelihood well-being

Abstract

The sustainable development of “industry-ecology-well-being” is a strategic goal of rural revitalization. This study selects 10 typical tourist village communities in China as research sites. Based on the adaptability theory of social-economic-natural ecosystems, this study constructs a coupling model of the “ecological dependence-livelihood well-being” of farmers' in terms of adaptability and identifies the mechanism underlying farmers' adaptability to rural tourism disturbance in the context a microsituation by way of a multinominal logistics model. The results found that are as follows. (1) Rural tourism development enhances farmers’ livelihood adaptability, and “high ecological dependence-high livelihood well-being” has become the optimal response to tourism disturbance. (2) Changes in the human-land relationship constitute a fundamental factor in the adaptability responses of farmers to tourism disturbance, and government tourism support institutions are an important external driving force. This study provides useful decision-making support and policy suggestions for identifying the model of dynamic adaptation and impact mechanism of farmers in the context of tourism disturbance, thereby promoting the development of tourism, the consolidation and expansion of the key achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensive rural revitalization.