Evaluation And Countermeasure Research On Tourism Sustainable Development Potential Of Agricultural Heritage Systems

Agricultural heritage systems emerged in nature and human farming civilization.Its historical and cultural values are still important to the survival and prosperity of human beings.Therefore,how to protect agricultural heritage systems and promote its sustainable development becomes a significant issue.Developing tourism is an effective tool for the dynamical protection and adaptive management of agricultural heritage systems.The combination of agriculture and tourism can not only tap into the economic value of agricultural heritage systems,but also carry forward its history and culture to secure sustainable growth in local tourism.The development of agricultural heritage systems tourism is also conducive to optimizing the industrial structure,promoting the integration of the local primary,secondary and tertiary industries,accelerating the coordinated economic development of rural and urban areas,increasing employment opportunities and broadening income sources for farmers in heritage areas to drive them out of poverty and boosting sustainable economic development in heritage areas.This paper reviewed and concluded the researches on agricultural heritage systems and sustainable development of tourism by scholars and experts at home and broad.On that bases and under relevant theoretical framework,the Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)was adopted to establish an evaluation index system for the tourism sustainable development potential of agricultural heritage systems.The index was determined in five aspects: The sustainability of heritage resources,tourism environment,tourism economy,social culture,and operation and management.In addition,this paper established the scoring standard for the evaluation of tourism sustainable development potential of agricultural heritage systems,with which a scientific scoring was provided for the brick tea cultural system of Yangloudong in Chibi.The evaluation index system and evaluation criteria for the tourism sustainable development potential of agricultural heritage systems established in this paper are both relevant and applicable for most agricultural heritage systems.Moreover,the paper puts forward some conducive suggestions for the tourism sustainable development of agricultural heritage systems in Chibi Yangloudong,and offers inspiration for the development of agricultural heritage systems in Chibi and other parts of the country.