A Study On Intangible Cultural Heritage's Tourism Development In Perspective Of Authenticity

Intangible cultural heritage, which contains a nation's memory and cultural genes as a valuable cultural relic of human beings, is of great importance to civilization's inheritance, cultural diversity and sustainable development. This cultural wealth has been shown to people with the springing up of cultural tourism and heritage tourism. Meanwhile, it's been damaged to a certain extent inevitably. These authenticity-related problems in intangible cultural heritage tourism have got concern from some people especially the scholars, who have been trying to solve problems on the sustainable inheritance of intangible cultural heritage.The research on authenticity problems in tourism concentrates on some researches in the view of tourism anthropology in the West which are divided into two perspectives namely tourism object and tourism subject, and four theory schools namely objectivist authenticity, constructivist authenticity, post-modernist authenticity and existentialist authenticity. Staged authenticity, a significant and popular proposition in the authenticity-related research, is originated from art theory and later applied into tourist study.The research is carried out from some studies on authenticity-related problems in tourism development. With analysis and summary of these researches, the paper is trying to build up the theory platform of authenticity research based on this paper, and then does the path exploring of intangible cultural heritage's tourism sustainable development of our country, with the study on the present situation and problems of intangible cultural heritage's tourism development.The paper is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 is the Preface which mainly introduces the paper's researching background, significance and basic content and summarizes related study at home and abroad. Chapter 2 is the theory frame which is trying to set up the theory platform of the whole paper using theories of sociology, anthropology and art science. Chapter 3 introduces the present situation and problems of intangible cultural heritage's tourism development of our country. Chapter 4 is the path exploring of intangible cultural heritage's tourism development of our country based on theory platform in Chapter 2. Chapter 5 is the case study.