A Comparative And Choice Analysis Of Typical Model Of Community-Involved Rural Tourism

The rural tourism began developing vigorously in China since the middle of 1990s. This thesis tries to answer the problems offered in the development of Chinese rural tourism through the study on driving mechanism and exploiting model of rural tourism. The purpose of the research is to provide theoretical instruction for healthful development of rural tourism. It hopes to provide exploiting models that can be utilized in the exploitation of rural tourism too.The thesis consists of seven chapters. In Chapter One, the Introduction states the background, the basis, significance and the content for the research of the thesis, and the methods & means used in the research.In Chapter Two, some theories in the research of the thesis are surveyed and appraised, the rural tourism and pertinent conception are discriminated theoretically. The former research literatures about this item are reviewed. After that, the exploiting types of rural tourism so far in China are investigated and studied at the angle of stockholders, and 7 kinds of exploiting models of rural tourism are summarized based on that.The Chapter Four is one of the keystones about this thesis.The difficulty of the research is to measure the outcome and level of sustainable development of rural tourism. The process is: constructing pre-election volume according to practical experience and documents and relative indices reflecting the sustainable development in economy, environment and society of rural tourism; executing consulting questionnaires;adopting Delphi Method to seek the views from the expertsin this field:estimating the importance of the indices; and then deciding the elected indices by balance filtration and gathering analysis for 3 times on the grounds of feasibility. The author establishes the appraisal indicator system tomeasure rural tourism sustainable development and positively studies the level and outcomesof rural tourism development in Liu-yang and Cheng-du in 2007, according to the model for appraisal.The Chapter Five and Chapter Six are the core sections of the thesis. In Chapter Five, two rural tourism destinations are studied. These models are evaluated for their vantage & shortcoming, and their suitable conditions.In the Conclusion, the author summaries the main conclusions and innovations of the thesis, indicates the shortcoming of the thesis and the direction for further research.