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The Lifestyle Impact Of Tourism Development To The Residents Of Underdeveloped Areas

Posted on:2009-09-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R G LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360245966315Subject:Sociology
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There are many articles on the study of the impact of tourism development, so many are there on lifestyle. In the backdrop of building a harmonious socialist society and building a new socialist countryside, the meaning of the study of the impact of tourism development on less developed residents is: Through the study of the outcome of tourism development on the lifestyle and its causes, to explore to establish a scientific civilized and economy development lifestyle in the vast underdeveloped rural areas and to promote coordinated development in economic and social, production and the way of life. In order to be able to have a better understanding of this issue, In the support of the instructors, the author conducted an investigation in Xinning County of Hunan Province.In this paper, the author conducted a questionnaire survey and interviews, observation in two typical villages, On the statistics, collating and comparative analysis of the data collected and found that tourism development in the tourism have a comprehensive impact on the way of life of the residents throug depth interviews and survey research, these effects are mainly embodied in consumption patterns,interpersonal relationships, and daily life of leisure patterns in several ways. Tourism development has accelerated the flow of information to promote tourism to the community more open, thus speeding up local residents and the pace of lifestyle changes to their lifestyle more urban, modern, the characteristics of the people. However, tourism development in the promotion of local residents towards modernization and the way of life of the people, it also brought about some negative effects. These effects are dominant, recessive. In this paper, the author used the theory of cultural dissemination to explain the causes of the impact of tourism development brings to the way of life. Then the author have a functional analysis to the results of tourism development on the lifestyle by the theory and method of Functions Analysis of Merton.Finally, the author have a discussion on the positive and negative impact of the process of developing tourism and put forward some of his own views.
Keywords/Search Tags:Tourism Development, Underdeveloped Areas, Lifestyle
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