Study On Constructing The Evaluation Index System And Standard For Rural Tourism Demonstration Regions

The focus of research about rural tourism in our country mainly remains on the discussion of definition, classification, exploitation and planning, marketing strategies, community participation and management, etc. While this tourism are springing up all over the country in recent years, many places have difficulties even in taking a step, some just stagnant with sustainable development problems coming to the fore. Researches concerning this aspect also remain at qualitative descriptions and raising countermeasures, lacking in instructive significance for the practice of sustainable development.Then in the author's opinion, one way to solve the problem of the sustainable development of rural tourism is constructing an examination standard and evaluation index system suitable for the situation of China, examining and evaluating the areas and scenic spots developing rural tourism and impelling them to try to find out the main problems and where they fall short so as to continuously improve and perfect themselves moving toward sustainable development. Meanwhile, the author advised setting up fine works and demonstration programs as examples for those areas and scenic spots that conform to the standard. This is the very starting point and end-result of this study.Proceeding with basic theories, this thesis defined the definition, classification of rural tourism demonstration areas. Based on the analyses of the necessity and feasibility of constructing index system, resorting to practical experience and referring to the theoretical and practical achievements of the researches of foreign and domestic scholars about rural tourism, ecotourism, evaluation index system, etc. This study constructs an evaluation index system for rural tourism demonstration regions through scientific and reasonable decomposition, induction and composition.The steps are:Firstly, determining the objects of evaluation, i.e. rural tourism demonstration region should be demonstrative bases reflecting the comprehensive objects of the sustainable development in environment, society and economy.Secondly, filtrating the evaluation index. The process is: constructing pre-election volume according to practical experience and documents and...