Bidirectional mechanisms of tourism resource(re)development and community heterogeneity:A case study of Erhai Lake region,Yunnan province
Current research on tourism resource development predominantly focuses on the eco-nomic attributes of resources and their economic transformation effects on products or indus-tries,with limited attention to the social attributes and social effects of these resources.This pa-per conducts a comparative study of three rural communities in the circum-Erhai Lake region of Yunnan province with varying degrees of tourism involvement.The study explores the com-munity heterogenization effects of tourism resource development and the bidirectional driving mechanisms between tourism resource development and community heterogenization.The re-search findings are as follows:Firstly,distinct from other rural resource development models,tourism resource development leads to both vertical economic heterogenization and horizontal group heterogenization among homogeneous village communities.Secondly,there is a bidirec-tional driving mechanism between tourism resource development and community heterogeniza-tion.On the one hand,tourism resource development brings about the transformation of re-source value,establishing a link between"natural resources"and"social resources,"resulting in the attraction of material wealth and population groups.On the other hand,community hetero-genization creates internal tension among resource users,fostering diversified and systematic resource utilization methods,thereby promoting the integration of resource types and the en-largement of resource categories.Under the dual influence of external market and internal com-munity drivers,tourism resources are developed and redeveloped,exhibiting value amplifica-tion and category enlargement effects.
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