Mechanism Study Of Community Participation In Tourism

This thesis, basing on the researching development of community participation in tourism, defined the related concepts and the structure content, discussed its necessity and significance. Meanwhile, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, this research took Napa Lake nature reserve in Yunnan as a case to establish the mechanism by making a regression model, to dig into the connection willingness of community participation in tourism and perception of tourism impact, and to study the role and way of non-governmental organizations, local tourism companies, local government and community residents in community participation. The study found that non-governmental organizations focused on environmental protection, public works, education and tourism projects; local tourism companies acted mainly through cash compensation mechanism; local government used contracting system to attract enterprises involved and made co-management measures to encourage community residents to participate; community residents participated mostly for economic benefit, and their participating willingness was much higher than their action. Besides, the community residents had a strong positive perception on tourism's economic, political and social impact, and weak in negative impact.At last, this thesis proposes a detailed and available tourism community participation action recommendations for the community's management and development.