The Research Of Educational Function Of Rural Tourism

Country Tourism has developed rapidly since late1980s, with a large number ofrural tourist areas emerging where are full of local features and era characteristics.Rural tourism has multiple functions. For a long time, people pay too much attentionto the economic function of rural tourism but relatively neglect its inherent features.Since ancient times, travel has the function of education, and many ancient men wholike literature and writing travel due to the motives of searching knowledge.Nowadays, the lifestyle of “reading ten thousand books and walking ten thousandmiles” is highly respected by many people. Countryside, rich in tourism resources invarious forms, is a natural classroom for a variety of education. Rural tourism is notonly a leisure trip, but also a vivid journey of education. Therefore, the research of theeducational function of rural tourism is of great significance.In this paper, based on the analysis of the traditional function of rural tourism,the educational function of rural tourism will be excavated deeply, making ruraltourism and education better integrated to each other. It will use the characters oflively and silently of rural tourism, and blend the ideological and political education,folk culture education, emotion will education, and ecological and environmentaleducation into the rural tourism activities that everyone loves. on the current ruraltourism educational functioning problems in analysis, make recommendations to thefunctioning of rural tourism education. The full text consists of five parts:The first part is the introduction. It provides the introduction of the researchbackground and significance, relevant literature review, and research contents andresearch methods.The second part is an overview of the related theory, which describes thetheoretical basis of this article, including the sustainable development theory,Maslow’s needs theory and comprehensive human development theory, andsummarizes the theories of rural tourism, including the concept of rural tourism, ruraltourism activities forms, characteristics of rural tourism, and rural tourismdevelopment status and trends.The third part is the educational function of the rural tourism, which describesthe basic functions of the rural tourism, and summaries and analyzes the educationalfunction of the rural tourism. The fourth part uses the questionnaires, which select the three villages and touristattractions in Liaoning Province and research the awareness of the educationalfunction of rural tourism, investigate education channels and the effect of the ruraltourism. Through the analysis of survey results, summarize the problems of ruraltourism education function.The fifth part provides the suggestions and solutions for the problems of thefunctioning of rural tourism education, including create the environment of a goodrural tourism and educational function, improve rural tourism development andmanagement of reception places, strengthen the education and training for localresidents of rural tourism, and enhance the initiatives of tourists towards theknowledge.The research of the educational function of the rural tourism can guide tourists toemphasis on rural tourism educational function, focus on the educational experiencesin the tourism process, achieve the comprehensive development. Wish the articlecould inspire the rural tourism managers to make efforts to excavate the functions ofeducation rural tourism, make a healthy and sustainable development of rural tourism.