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资源科学 2006
Relationship between Tourism Resources Development and Regional Social and Economic Development in Agricultural Heritage Site --Taking "Traditional Rice-Fish Agriculture" of Qingtian County as an Example
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Abstract:
According to the definition by FAO,Globally Important Ingenious Agricultural Heritage Systems(GIAHS),equaling to world cultural heritage in concept,is "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in biological diversity evolving from the ingenious and dynamic adaptation of a community/population to its environment and the needs and aspirations for sustainable development.As a new kind of world heritages,only after 2002 was GIAHS noticed by scientists and managers.Just for this reason the research on it is at the first stage including the tourism development.There are plenty of tourism resources in agricultural heritage sites which will play potential and important roles in regional sustainable development of economy,society,culture and eco-environment.On the other hand,regional sustainable socio-economic development will prove the conservation and development of GIAHS sites.In this paper,by literature searching and field investigation in Qingtian County of Zhejiang Province,the first pilot site of GIAHS in China,the authors analyzed the relationship between tourism resources development and regional social and economic development in agricultural heritage site.The result shows that the development of tourism resources is closely relative to the increase of local GDP,the improvement of local people' life and the employment in tourism and the correlation coefficient are 0.68,0.83 and 0.81 respectively.In general,tourism development and participatory mechanism increase tourism employment greatly which enlarges the local farmers' views.Tourism employment willingness investigation shows they would like to participate in the tourism activities by tourism products sales,tourists reception in farming houses,play as a guide and so on.Among them,the tourism goods' selling is their favorite one which takes up 62.5% of the whole.At the same time,the relative undeveloped social and economic conditions made large contribution to the conservation of the traditional rice-fish agricultural system.Besides,the organic combination of typical local cultural forms,i.e.,religious culture,stone carving culture,famous persons culture,overseas Chinese culture,and field fish culture,lay sound foundation for the local tourism development and overseas Chinese's' support to the hometown construction also provides impetus on tourism,and accelerates the development of tourism resources in Qingtian to a great extent.Therefore,it is very obvious and important to understand the role of tourism development in the dynamic conservation of GIAHS.
