Tourism Development And Cultural Change

Cultural change is not caused by the phenomenon of tourism; but for those relatively isolated and economically backward tourist attractions, tourism development undoubtedly motivated cultural change. This article [this dissertation] aims to explore how tourism development impacts tourist attractions'changes in culture. Bama Yao Autonomous County has always been a key national welfare recipient under the government decision-making before its own tourism development; Bama Yao Autonomous County's local tourist industry attained huge development from the years of 2007 to 2009 and attempted to keep bringing great boost in economic growth. Selecting Bama as a field study will help future researches at understanding how tourism development affects tourist's attractions'changes in culture.Bama's tourism development is determined under its own county government's decision-making and promotion; hence, government's understanding on tourism development closely affects how tourism development is related to local cultural transition. When such concepts of development become part of local culture, local culture has undergone changes. Therefore, this article first resolve the question about how did local government's conception on tourism development become accepted and recognized by common people to a point where people started to internalize government's conception on tourism development as part of their own perspectives.The process to develop tourism and to advertise certain brands of tourist culture from governmental promotion to local initiatives is a process of cultural transition. In this process, the phenomenon of cultural change is shown through a series of development occurred specifically related to tourism. Base on previously resolved question, I describe parts of Bama's phenomenon of cultural change associated with tourism in details to answer what kinds of cultural transition that local people have to undergo from a perspective favoring tourism development. And my observation shows there is an association between Bama's government officials who actively participated in local tourism project, groups of developmental tourism entrepreneurs, tourists, and common local people.