Rural spatial restructuring and its driving mechanism under the influence of tourism gentrification:A case study of Hanwang Village in Xuzhou City
Understanding the degree of rural tourism gentrification,balancing the relationship between stakeholders such as native rural residents,new rural residents,and returned rural residents,and truly realizing the sharing of development dividends are the key to achieving the comprehensive rural revitalization and rural tourism sustainable development.As one of the important representations of rural space value reshaping,tourism-driven rural gentrification has attracted great attention in the context of rural revitalization.From the perspective of the influencing effect of rural tourism gentrification,this study analyzed the spatial restructuring characteristics of Hanwang Village in different periods of tourism gentrification development based on field research data and spatial interpretation results.Combined with the semi-structured interview data,this study also analyzed the mechanism of spatial restructuring by using the actor-network theory.The results show that:1)According to the tourism construction and development process,the tourism gentrification process in Hanwang Village can be divided into four stages,including traditional agriculture transformation,sightseeing agriculture exploitation,rural tourism development,and cultural and tourism integration transition.Different stages of spatial restructuring present different characteristics.2)The process of tourism-driven rural gentrification has successively changed the land use distribution,industrial structure,population composition,and cultural atmosphere of Hanwang Village,and alleviated some of the problems of rural hollowing,which had a profound impact on the village space.3)The transformation of the interests and goals of heterogeneous actors,such as governments at all levels,village residents,tourists,investors,art practitioners,and tourism resources,as well as the connection and cooperation between them,have an effect on the spatial restructuring of Hanwang Village.This study took Hanwang Village in Xuzhou City as a case study,and mainly focused on the impact of tourism-driven rural gentrification development on rural spatial restructuring,the behavioral logic of various stakeholders in the process of spatial restructuring,and the relationship with rural hollowing,so as to provide theoretical and empirical references for the study of tourism-driven rural revitalization development and rural gentrification effect,and solving the problems of hollow villages.
rural spatial restructuringrural tourism gentrificationdriving mechanismactor-network theoryHanwang Village in Xuzhou City