The Development Characters Of Minority Community Tourism

Minority community tourism takes the special human resources of other nations or minorities as central tourism products within the special space-time area, attracting the people from other nation or minorities. In China, it is almost the several tourism activities on the area of Minorities massed, which includes villages, towns and counties. In the condition of mass tourism in the world and its fast development in China, minority community tourism in our country has get into some difficult position. The researches on general disciplines and characters about development of minority community tourism are singularly, especially from the sociological and anthropological views, which is very mature abroad. The author tries to summarize the mainly characters of this phenomenon through investigations, based on the theoretical frame of foreign researches.First, the integration of regions in which minority community tourism developed. As a successful case of integration of tourism region, northwest of Yunnan province presents the grades-processing pattern of difference sequence. The reasons are scientific development stratagem, benign relationship between contest and cooperation, the development of difference sequence and the renewal of tourism product.Second, staged characters of minority community tourism. It induced the appearance of community tourism sphere, front-staged of hosts' behavior, staged of folk-custom and festivals. These characters make for enhancing the economic benefit of community, facilitating the community integration, and it will hasten rebounding, protecting, passing tradition culture of minority.Third, the impacts of tourism on minority villages and towns. Tourism is an two-edged sword, which brings both positive and negative impacts to the destination. They are economic impacts, living environment impacts, cultural impacts and minority relationship impacts. Furthermore, it promotes the transition of community organizational system, which includes the integration of homogeneous resources in community and renaming of regionalism.Forth, the character of community participation. Under the policy of regional autonomy of minorities, people have fully participated in tourism development process. Good effects have got in the areas of economic income, tourism exploitation and management, protecting of minority culture. And the participating style and character appear diversified.Minority's traditional villages and towns have centuries-old history, plenty culture, and harmonize with nature perfectly. It's significant to study minority community tourism. General rules and characters of minority community tourism would be concluded in this article, which will provide references for sustainable development of minority community tourism.