Village Tourism Authenticity And Research

With tourism booming, tourists have flocked into those areas with unique folk culture and folk customs to meet their access to knowledge., marvelous spectacle during their visit and experience. On one hand, the development of folk tourism destination brought a lot of job opportunities and substantial economical benefit, but it also made the native culture was altered and assimilated on the other. Against this background research on the authenticity of the folk culture became the focus of attention of the academic community. Folk village, for instance, which contains all kinds of folk cultures, is the main tourism resources, and the main form to display cultural characteristics of the region. Now the folk village development has different problems. Concretely, it must consider both cultural protection and economical benefit. How to ensure "authenticity" of folk village is one of the key factors in the process of tourism development. This thesis takes CuanDiXia village in MenTouGou district in Beijing as investigation destination and analyses the "authenticity" of its folk culture through field investigation and questionnaire. In particular, this thesis discusses the following problems: How should the folk village show its "authenticity". How the visitor and local people judge on the "authenticity", who or which would influence the folk tourism exploration and how to attach equal attention on both...