STUDY ON COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATION IN TOURISM
PAN Qiu-ling1,2, LI Jiu-quan1
1. Institute of Human Geography, Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an 710061, China;
2. Center for Urban Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, 510275, China
Abstract：Community participation in tourism is regarded as the critical and indispensable way for sustainable development. Although it is a non-traditional but a political decisive progress, community participation can't generate direct profits to the community residents automatically. Due to the influence of regional economy, local policies and residents' value system etc, it is hard to obtain the expected result in community tourism development. Therefore, the article tries to explore the connotation and theoretical framework of community integration. The author thinks that community integration should not be an isolated progress. It has close ties with tourism planning and tourism impact. The paper puts much emphasis on the principal elements affecting comm unity integration:(1) Community members are willing to cooperate with each other, which is the basic premise for community integration. The core of community integration is that community residents as a unity take part in the tourism development and benefit from the tourism industry equally. Whether local residents are willing to cooperate with each other depends on their attitude to community tourism.(2) Community members can attain equal distribution of local benefits in terms of revenues and employment, which is the motivation of community integration. Revenues and employment from tourism industry are the two key factors, which indicate the tourist effects on community residents.(3) Local residents have a relatively high degree of control and management of tourism service. Because individual ability of community residents is limited, many development decisions are generally made by the tourism enterprises. Tourism community can take some measures, such as developing collective economy and stock co-operational economy etc. to strengthen their control power of tourist service enterprises.(4) Community has certain ability of integrating local traditional culture with heterogeneous culture. Tourism development brings changes to traditional life style and modes of thought and brings conflicts between tourist culture and lo cal culture. So community integration must respect, safeguard and develop local traditional culture and strengthen cultural identification of community residents.
潘秋玲, 李九全. 社区参与和旅游社区一体化研究[J]. 人文地理, 2002, 17(4): 38-41,5.
PAN Qiu-ling, LI Jiu-quan. STUDY ON COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATION IN TOURISM. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2002, 17(4): 38-41,5.
