Study On The Problems Of Tourism Development And Farmer’s Income In Hainan Province

Whether the establishment of Hainan international tourism island will bring real benefit to farmersand eventually help them be richer is of the important issue for the success of this strategy. In this study,in-depth analysis of the influence and effects of tourism development on both increasing of the farmer’sincome and decreasing of urban and rural residents’ income gap was performed, and the obtained resultsmight have important theoretical value and practical significance.The thesis is based on the theory of regional economic development, sustainable development, andother related theories, using methods such as comparative analysis, case analysis, empirical analysis, tosystematically research the relationship between tourism development and the farmer’s income andurban and rural residents’ income gap before and after the construction of international tourismisland.The major conclusions are listed as the following:Firstly, from the overall analysis, through more than four years of the construction of internationaltourism island in Hainan province, the rapid development of local tourism, tourist arrivals and tourismrevenues increased significantly. The local industrial structure and employment structure continues tobe optimized, the proportion of the tertiary industry continues to be improved as well as, tourismemployment increase rapidly. At the same time, the farmer’s income has been increased dramatically,and the wage income and non-agricultural income of family-run income has been improved rapidly. Theratio gap of urban and rural income has declined, which results in the income gap is narrowing.Secondly, from the typical case analysis, Hainan international tourism island constructioncombining agriculture and tourism, the channels of farmer’s participation in tourism increase, farmersget benefits significantly improved. The model of community participation, farmers directly participatein the tourism industry, they can obtain long-term gains. Under this guidance, poor village establishedthe strategy and the way of pro-poor tourism.But at present, the degree and level of farmers involved intourism is lower and the scale is smaller.Thirdly, from the econometric model analysis, there is significant positive correlation betweenfarmer’s income and tourism development in Hainan province, tourism development changes1%, andfarmer’s income is positive changes to2.83%. After the construction of international tourism island, theinfluence degree of the tourism development on farmer’s income increased to3.28%.Fourthly, from the regional development and changes, before the construction of internationaltourism island, the biggest of tourism income effect is the south region represented by Sanya city. Forthe north region, the east region and the west region, but in the central region represented byQiongzhong, a small county in the middle of Hainan province, the relationship between tourismdevelopment and farmer’s income isn’t such significance as that in other counties. After theconstruction of international tourism island, tourism income effect is the strongest in the central region,there is significant positive correlation between farmer’s income and tourism development in this region,and the late-developing advantage of tourism pulling is also obvious. Fifthly, from urban and rural residents’ income gap, after the construction of international tourismisland, there is a significantly negative correlation between urban and rural residents’ income gap andtourism development, after tourism development changes1%, the urban and rural residents’ income gapwill shrink0.2769%, the construction of international tourism island is helpful to narrowing the incomegap of urban and rural residents.Based on the above mentioned conclusions, in this project, some suggestions on the policies andrecommendations are as the following:Firstly, further develop tourism product, drive the development of Hainan characteristics ruraltourism；Secondly, tourism should play a great pulling effect to promote regional industrial structureadjustment and optimization；Thirdly, generalize community participation, expand related services；Fourthly, strengthen vocational training program, improve the ability of farmers to participate intourism and service level；Fifthly, strengthen the urban and rural environmental protection, improve themechanism of ecological compensation；Sixthly, in the aspects of tourism infrastructure and publicservice, increase the government financial support.