A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO A DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATION OF TOURIST VALUES AND RESOURCES OF REGIONAL FOLKLORE——A Case Study with Comparision of folklores of Tibetan Nationality in Jiuzhaigou District & Wu Culture in Jiangsu Province: part Ⅰ
Abstract：From the view of geography, folklore is a component of cultural landscape and human tourist resource. It seems that assessment of influence of folklore to tourist resources and its practical value in tourist industry as well as related evaluation (continued from page 24)method still remain uncompleted so far. In this paper, folklores were calssified into six types named as belief folklore, social folklore, life hood folklore, economical folklore, tales folk songs, and sport entertainment folklore, while the economical folklore, tales folk songs, and sport entertainment folklore, while the folklore tourist attractions were classified into five groups named as watching. paticipating, experiencing, deep and assisting ones. The relationships between folklore and human landscape and between folklore and natural landscape were detailed discussed. With humantistic geographical concept of 'place', the role played by folklore in the fomation of impression and identity of tourist destination was specially elusidated and analysed. It is shown that folklore tourist attractions of both Tibetan nationlity of Jiuzhaigou District and traditional Wu culture in Jiangsu Province have got their own systems of types and related traits as well as developing way. With comparison of both folklore tourist attractions, it is suggested that the origin of traits of regional folklore tourist attractions be closely related to local environmental backgrounds of both physical geography and cultural geography.
张捷. 区域民俗文化的旅游资源的类型及旅游业价值研究——九寨沟藏族民俗文化与江苏吴文化民俗旅游资源比较研究之一[J]. 人文地理, 1997, 12(3): 20-24,74.
Zhang Jie. A GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO A DESCRIPTIVE EVALUATION OF TOURIST VALUES AND RESOURCES OF REGIONAL FOLKLORE——A Case Study with Comparision of folklores of Tibetan Nationality in Jiuzhaigou District & Wu Culture in Jiangsu Province: part Ⅰ. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 1997, 12(3): 20-24,74.
