Study On The Tourism Expression Of Cultural Elements In The Tourisim Development In The Ethnic Regions

: With the development of tourism and cultural industry in our country,national cultural resources protection and tourism development have become the heatedtopic in local ethnic minority areas currently. At present, the research emphasizesspecial culture protection and tourism development planning, which lies in the macrolevel of cultural resources conservation and tourism development. In practice, it reflectsthe mechanism, ie, culture resources protection promotes tourism development and viceverse, which lacks of intrinsic interaction between culture and tourism. Culture is thesoul of tourism development, which requests the protective planning and designing inthe process of tourism development and protection of cultural resources from the microlevel. Since the tourism expression of cultural elements, as the vital content of tourismdevelopment, runs through the whole process of tourism development. The paper willmake an investigation and research on the expression of cultural elements in the tourismdevelopment, combining macroscopic tourism resources development with the microcultural elements, as well as regarding tourism development and cultural elements asorganic integrity of "process and method".With regard to the research methodology, this paper adopts combinative approachof macro and micro, theoretical exploration and empirical analysis, qualitative analysisand quantitative analysis; To the research contents and results, the author, at the verybegining, makes clear the basic conception of culture and ethnic culture, tourism andtourism elements, tourism cultural development and tourism expression of cultural elements. Based on the theories in the subjects such as tourism resource development,cultural anthropology and experience economics, and with the empirical case studies ofGelao ethnic villages of LongTan villege in Wuchuan county, Guizhou province, thepaper bulids the resouces classification system of ethnic tourism elements classificationand evaluation proceeding from the national cultural and geographical position of Gelaoethnic villege, which make evaluations on the Gelao tourism elements qualitatively andquantitatively. Besides, the author has carried out a survey that local residents’perceptual intent evaluation towards Gelao ethnic culture preservation and tourismdevelopment., which regarded as the comprehensive analysis of the expression of Gelaoethnic tourism. And considering the three-dimensional interactive relationships betweensix senses of human body(senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch and percept) and“six elements” of tourism, the paper puts forward the basic principles and ideas of theexpression of Gelao ethnic tourism. What’s more, by discussing the methods andgeneral formula from the empirical analysis, the paper establishes the Structure andspatial pattern of the expression of Gelao ethnic tourism, as well as points out thatactivation of the tourism elements of expression of behavior is the focus of the elementsof the activation. At length, the paper indicates the limitations on research methods andcontents as well as the outlook on the further research.