| Along with the speeding up of urbanization, raising of city dwellers' income leveland increasing of their leisure time in china recently, rural tourism finds more and morefavour, which is characterized by regression to nature, spontaneous organization andhousehold sharing. This pushes rural tourist destinations to forge rapidly ahead. Becauserural tourism emphasizes particularly on tourism activity in rural community, how todefine the relationship between rural community and other interest groups such as ruraltourists, government, and investors become an new but important question remaining tobe solved. The author believes that stakeholder theory would a feasible resolvent.Nowadays, most of the existing relevant literatures discussed this issue from the staticperspectives of the stakeholders' interviewing, participation and collaboration. Thedynamic changes of the power structures and relations between the individualstakeholders are ignored, which occur along with the tourism communities' developmentprogress. This is obviously worth studying and just what this dissertation is dedicated to.By employing the case of Wuyuan, Jiangxi, This dissertation gives particular attention tothe process of stakeholders' game, discusses how the relationships between theseautonomous stakeholders and related institutions change over time, demonstrates theproposed hypothesis that the balanced interest of stakeholders is a main-motivation topush a tourism community forward.The whole dissertation is composed of three main parts including exordium, text andconclusion. It shows that according to whether they are important to tourismcommunity's development or not, the stakeholders can be classified into two categeries,core stakeholders and non-core stakeholders. Core stakeholders include government,tourists, tourism enterprises and community residents generally. These four kinds ofstakeholders pursue different interests during the progress of tourism development, whichwould cause iterative game of power and interest between them. By offering andanalyzing the game instances, we can find that suchlike game will always arouse thecontradictions between individual and individual ration, individual and collective ration.Only through reasonable institutional arrangement can these stakeholders' play infiniterepeated game, come to an agreement and then the contradictions be solved. Thus atourism community's institutions evolve in a circulating way that interests conflictsappear among several stakeholders, institutions are adjusted to realize the state ofperiodic benefits equilibrium, new interests conflicts, new institution adjustments, and soon. The state of interests equilibrium and non- equilibrium emerges alternately. So, it isdefinite that periodic interests equilibrium of stakeholders due to reasonable institutionalchange aids a community's development. In addition, this dissertation indicates thatdifferent stages appearing during the progress of community development reflectdifferent patterns of power relations among stakeholders actually, which involve community-oriented pattern, government- oriented pattern and market- oriented pattern.To realize the benefits equilibrium among stakeholders, the author puts forward the chiefprinciple of "coordinating benefits, ensuring rights" and a multiple center governancemodel characterized by governmental orientation, community empowerment, marketparticipation and multi-parties coordination. This would be an ideal model for presenttourism communities.By employing the stakeholder theory in management, institutional economics theory,game theory, combining the normative research with empirical analysis, this dissertationargues that stakeholders' game based on different interests would give an impulse to atourism community's development. This would be a good supplement of researches withregard to tourism stakeholder management and institutional change. It is believed to be ofsignificance for related research and practice in the future.
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