Study On The Socio-cultural Impacts Of Tourism On Destination

Tourism, the industry already transcending the traditional economic department, requires investments of all aspects, ranging from economy and society to culture as well as environment. With its rather rapid development and the many fields it covers, tourism has been widely regarded as the biggest and most comprehensive industry in the world, thus making it urgent that we get a panorama of the effects it causes. However, while faced with the economic surge and regional prosperity, people have to put up with all the ensuing discomforts and problems. Therefore, study on the impacts of tourism, especially the socio-cultural impacts of tourism, has started attracting people's attention.Due to the difference of the stage of tourism development, scholars abroad began early on the study of the impacts of tourism, achieving a great many accomplishments, perfecting some related theoretical system and frame. Furthermore, with the persistent development of tourism around the globe, studies on the social, economic, cultural and environmental impacts of tourism are on the increase. From the study process of foreign countries, we have discovered that most of the existent studies tend to choose those maturely-developed tourism destinations as their typical cases. On the other hand, there is comparatively lack of experiences on this study in our country, which leads to most of the achievements from this area being the simple introductions of the development of foreign study on the theoretical level and there are few relative case studies. And at present, seldom did any scholar do the research into the socio-cultural impact of tourism of Fenghuang Ancient City before.This paper can be divided into five parts:The first part mainly introduces the research goal of this paper, domestic and foreign research progress, the primary contents and methodology.In the second part, all the theories used in this paper have been discussed explicitly. The author has made clear the related concepts of the socio-cultural impacts of tourism destination, and introduced the theoretical basis employed in this paper, such as Acculturation Theory, Doxey Stimulus Theory, Social Change Theory and Social Exchange Theory.In the third part, the author has come to a conclusion, from the angle of the analysis of tourism, the destination inhabitants, the host-guest relations as well as the change of the social economy condition in the destination, that the amount of tourists, the time-length of tourist's stays, the types of tourists and the change of the social economic condition are major causes of the socio-cultural impacts of tourism on destination.Through comparing the attitudes towards the socio-cultural impact of tourism on destination of the local residents and those who provide services for tourism between the two scenic spots of Fenghuang and Nangfang Great wall, the fourth part is mainly concerned with summarizing the degree to which the impact of the tourism of the aspects from Language to Clothes to Traditional Customs and other parts of the destination.Combining the comparative study of the two aspects, the author worked out the control principles and ways for socio-cultural impact of tourism on destinations.