The theoretical framework and research prospect of rural tourism innovation
The rural tourism is an important industrial carrier and key industrial path for implementing the strategy of the rural revitalization and innovation-driven development in the new era,and promoting rural economy and society in China to achieve high-quality innovative development.The iterative development of rural tourism formats has reconstructed the rural economic and social forms and reshaped the nature of rural space.The continuous emergence of new industries and new formats has promoted the re-transformation of rural production functions,and the spatial innovation factors and resource allocation have broken through regional restrictions,giving feedback and enabling the development of rural tourism innovation.In foundation of criticizing and inheriting Schumpeter's innovation theory,this study interprets the connotation and characteristics of the rural tourism innovation,builds a rural tourism innovation system with"one core"and"five supports",and looks into future key areas of China's rural tourism innovation research.The results indicate that firstly the rural tourism has experienced the innovative development processes from scratch with gradual exploration and from weak to strong,which has the characteristics of times,integration and regionalism.Secondly,in the rural tourism innovation system,the format innovation is the core representation form and material space carrier of rural tourism innovation along with the institutional innovation as the start point for the top-level design and logic,the financial innovation as the solid foundation and power support,technological innovation as an important engine and breakthrough force,organizational innovation as the key support and effective guarantee,and social innovation as realistic path and core drive.Finally,the research framework of the rural tourism innovation is constructed from the perspectives of theoretical system,practice pattern,evolution process,dynamic mechanism,and optimization countermeasures to expect the important knowledge contribution and theoretical guidance for understanding,elaborating,and exploring the occurrence,succession,and innovative development of rural tourism,in pace with the effective guidance and decision-making basis for the innovative practice and management of rural tourism under the situation of China.