Folk Tourism Research

Folklore tourism is a kind of culture-experiencing activities with an object to get close access to folk culture. Besides the mental satisfaction from the additional landscape-viewing, the exotic culture and customs that deeply rooted in the native society can also be enjoyed and understood through folklore tourism as well as the glamour of the traditional culture in contrast with the modern urban civilization, and the tourists'local love and the cultural source acknowledgement can also be prompted. So the folk tourism has broad market ahead in terms of ordinary tourists of different ages across the world and the professional cultural researching scholars. With current"overseeing the folk"campus upheaval, the re-acknowledgement of the folk culture and the governmental support lead to the greater opportunity for the cultural development which resulted in the blooming of the folklore tourism. And at the same time the folklore research and concerned tourism planning about all the Chinese nations are well on the way. Hakka, as one of the eight branches of Han nation, on which great achievement for folklore culture research had been made through the efforts of Hakka Study Center of Gannan Normal University, that is the advantage for this graduation paper can make use of. This paper is featured by the integration of theory-oriented study and operation-oriented resource investigation and planning. In which the Ganna Hakka folk culture is classified and characterized according to folklore tourism theory as a fundamental direction to initialize the tourism planning. Chapter 1 is the summary in theory on the folklore culture resource, tourism planning and the relationships among them. Chapter 2 summarizes the representative Gannan Hakka folk culture of each class. Chapter 3 is the initiative tourism planning for Gannan Hakka folk culture.