Sustainable tourism development of globally important agricultural heritage sites:a case study of "traditional rice-fish agriculture system"

作     者：Li Yongle Sun Yehong Min Qingwen Cheng Shengkui 

作者机构：Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101P.R.China Graduate UniversityChinese Acodemy of SciencesBeijing 100039P.R.China Tourism DeprtmentXuzhou normal UniversityXuzhou 221116P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Ecological Economy》 (生态经济（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第4卷第3期

页      面：328-337页

学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020202[经济学-区域经济学] 

基　　金：the Preliminary Re-search Item of Knowledge Innovation Project of CAS: Conservation and Adaptive Management of Traditional Rice-fi sh Agricultural System  and inter-national cooperation project: Conservation and Utili-zation of Traditional Rice-fi sh Agricultural System 

主　　题：Globally important agricultural heritage systems (GIAHS) Traditional agricultural heritage site Sustainable tourism development Langxian Village of Qingtian county 

摘      要：Traditional rice-fish agricultural heritage site in Qingtian County, China, one of the pilot sites of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems （GIAHS）, is of great value in tourism development. This paper aims to explore how to realize sustainable tourism development in agricultural heritage site through identifying current problems in GIAHS site. and making constructive recommendations for coupled development of heritage preservation and economic development. Field survey was carried out and data was collected through field questionnaire surveys of tourists and residents in Longxian Village of Qingtian County, as well as interviews of residents with semi. structured questionnaires for their perceptions and attitudes to tourism development. The following results are got： （1） the tourism industry is still at its early state of Non, tale tourism （enjoy and experience authentic country life- style）, under very limited administrative management; （2） what attracts visitors most are *** and beautiful natural environment, but not agricultural heritage itself; （3） most tourists eome from adjacent areas and stay. only half day, many of whom pay their visits twice or more; （4） a few local residents take part in the activities of tourism industry, but in very limited manners even if they do. Current patterns of tourism development are casting negative impacts on agricultural heritage. Conservatton of agricultural heritage should be put in the first place for sustainable tourism *** heritage, as a key attraction, should be taken as the focus for tourism development. The important thing is to change the present Nongjiale tourism into real heritage tourism, to establish a cooperative mechanism among different stakeholders. and to increase local residents＇ income through engaging in tourism industry.