Changes Of Tourism Development Under The Influence Of Rural Society

Since the1990s, tourism industry has been a important way of promoting local economic development in many rural areas. By exploiting the beautiful natural scenery and ethnic culture, these places have transformed into tourist community. In these areas, the social changes were different from the others while tourism had became the mainly driving force of social transformation. This research try to take Yuan village, the most famous tourist village as the example to discuss the influences of tourism industry has impact on local society, including the effects on economic and social changes, the specific performances and sum up the experience. This paper is divided into seven chapters to describe.The first chapter is an introduction, which describes the intention and methods of this research, related theories and researches in this field.The second chapter introduces the basic situation of Yuan village, and have focus on the economical and social development before tourism started.The third chapter discusses the economical changes of Yuan village after tourism industry developed. By setting two relocations as the time points, separates the development history into three periods. Then analyses the features of villagers’ occupations and income stream in each period.The forth chapter discusses the cultural and social changes of Yuan village after tourism industry. These changes including the aspects of living style、family and villagers’social interactionThe fifth chapter discusses the changes which happened at the community level. Including the composition of the population and social stratification, the role of village committee in tourism development. In the end of this chapter, introduce Ecological and Civilization village relocation plan.The sixth chapter analyses the value and consciousness changes of Yuan villagers, including market economy consciousness, environmental protection consciousness, tourism service consciousness, and the concept of education and marriage.The seventh chapter is an conclusion. Summing up the features of social changes in Yuan villages, and generalize the experience of tourism exploitation in minority areas.