Tourism Destination Social Impact Study

Western researchers has paid more attention to the Social effects of tourism and issued many papers on this matter after 1960s? At the same time our nation has been behind it about 30 years. In this field, our researchers have focused on it unitl the beginning of 90s? and more and more researchers entered i this field and, the reason is that the modern tourism springed up recently in our counUy, some social effects which produced by the modern tourism are appearing now, and that is why few of people focus on the problem of the social effects of tourism.. Now the government and scientists pay more attention to it because the social problems made by the tourism became much complex and pluralism since the tourism developed quickly in our country. This artcle discusses about the background characteristic of times and research significance on the social effects of tourism. It analyzes and sunnnrizes the some internal and external documents, and combines some theories and methods of geography of tourism, sociology, cultural anthropology and communication research, explains the sense to the social effects of tourism, discusses the development period of theory of tourism social eff~cts, cultural communication theroy, social exchange theoty, and takes the DaLi, Liliang as the sample for analysis of social effects on the local area made by the tourism development. It puts forward the adjustment policy for social effects of tourism which based on the above researches. The whole paper are divided into six parts: (l)Introduction. It retrospects the historical researches of social effects of tourism and prospects the researches tendency of it and discusses the researches significance. (2)Discussion of theoiy. It summarizes and develops the earlier achievements of research theory on the social effects of tourism which used the cultural communicantion researches, anthropology and some other relative theories as the basis to puts forward the development period of theory of tourism social effects, cultural communicantion theories and social exchange theories. (3)The research method. The social effects of tourism have been researched for many years, some mature theories and methods have been developed. The article adopts some advanced theories and methods to improve the troditional research methods in order to objectively reflect the habitants attutides to the social effects of tourism in the torism destination. (4)Analysis of sample. This article provides two area (DaLi~ LiJiang) as research samples of tourism destination, used questions papers to analyze the tourism social effects on the economy environment. (5)Adjustment policy. Used the idea of sustainable development as a instnnnent to pur forward the basical principle and concrete measures in order to restain the hannful effects in the lowest limitation which caused by the tourism development while enlarge the good effects on the tourism destinaton. (6)Summary and Discussion. After the research of the theories and practices. It summarizes and retrospects the problems and limitations of this research, discusses the research tendency and prospect of this matter.