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| COMMUNITY RESIDENTS'PERCEPTION OF TOURISM IMPACTS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION ATTITUDE IN AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE SITES: A CASE STUDY OF HANI TERRACES |
| ZHANG Ai-ping, HOU Bing, MANan |
| School of Tourism and Culinary Science, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China |
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Abstract Based on the analysis on the demands of residents' livelihoods in Hani terraces, this study verified the influence relationship between residents' perceived impacts on livelihoods and their participation attitude, and then discussed the spatial pattern of the index of community participation attitude under the perceived influence on livelihoods, thus the participation pattern integrated with the residents' livelihood was put forward. As for the current situation of residents' livelihoods, ‘farming’ and ‘farming combining with seasonal laboring’ were the main living ways, and community residents were not satisfied with current living status. It was found that ‘farming combining with individual businesses’ and ‘farming combining with seasonal laboring’ are residents' ideal living ways. According to residents' influence perception, we tried to establish a relational model between residents' influence perception and their participation attitude, and the model results showed that influence perception of agricultural livelihoods significantly had positive impacts on residents' attitude of heritage protection, while influence perception of off-farm livelihoods significantly had positive impacts both on residents' attitude of heritage protection and tourism development. Under the influence perception, participation attitudes scores presented inverted ‘U’ type feature with the increase of distance from tourism traffic line. Finally, based on the above results, we thought that community residents should participate in heritage management and tourism development by taking ‘sightseeing right’ of their terraces as stocks, and the pattern of community cooperative agency were also need to be established, through which residents' livelihoods could be closely associated with community participation.
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Received: 27 September 2015
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2017, Vol. 32 
