Cultural tourism and rural community resilience: A framework and its application

Gocer, Ozgur; Boyacioglu, Didem; Karahan, Ebru Ergoz; Shrestha, Pranita

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103238

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“…Moreover, scholarly attention has been directed towards dissecting the functions and spatial distribution of rural settlements [21]. Recently, a burgeoning interest among scholars globally has been observed in the examination of traditional villages, primarily focusing on the preservation of rural heritage [22][23][24], governance structures [25,26], cultural landscape [13,[27][28][29], tourism [30][31][32], cultural significance [3,33,34], and morphology [35][36][37][38]. Apart from the aforementioned studies, which often focus on micro-and typical cases, some scholars have leveraged geography's macroscopic and integrative nature to explore spatial distribution and influencing factors.…”

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Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in Fujian, China: A Watershed Perspective

Hu,

Lin,

Fan

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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Watersheds provide a spatial framework for tightly coupling human activities and the natural environment. Investigating the spatial distribution patterns of traditional villages within watersheds is crucial for comprehending their origins and advancing conservation and development efforts. This study employs methods such as the nearest neighbor index, kernel density estimation, spatial auto-correlation analysis, stepwise regression, and geographically weighted regression to explore the watershed characteristics and influential factors governing the spatial differentiation of traditional villages in Fujian Province. The findings indicate that traditional villages in Fujian exhibit an overall clustered distribution within the watershed space, with a tendency to cluster along basin boundaries, primarily concentrated in three hot spot regions. In the remaining small watersheds, the distribution is more balanced. Traditional villages are predominantly located near low-order streams, displaying a distribution pattern along tributaries, while in the Huotongxi river basin, they are more evenly distributed near second-, third-, and fourth-order streams. Relief, annual average temperature, annual average precipitation, arable land, per capita GDP, distance to county-level or higher-grade cities, and the concentration of cultural heritage preservation units are the primary factors affecting the spatial differentiation of traditional villages within watersheds, exhibiting significant spatial heterogeneity. Finally, this study proposes recommendations for the cluster protection and development of traditional villages in watersheds, addressing spatial, cultural, landscape, industrial, and governance aspects.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in Fujian, China: A Watershed Perspective

Hu,

Lin,

Fan

et al. 2024

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“…The resilience concept is used in rural areas in multiple directions: (A) Associated with cultural landscape in the context of global transformation processes where each particular landscape is subject to events and decisions adopted in distant locations and that generate different end types of cultural landscapes [11]: (1) landscapes of agricultural intensification as a product of transitions towards more productive agriculture associated socio-economic development of rural areas, (2) marginalized landscapes associated with rural spaces with marginal agriculture and socio-economic decline, (3) landscapes of urbanization and consumption associated with areas affected with processes of creative urbanization, (4) landscapes of renewable power engaged with changes in land use as consequence of renewable energies projects, (5) multifunctional landscapes linked with politics of diversification and fragmentation and (6) landscapes of nature conservation affected by politics of rural preservation. (B) In the context of a traditional cultural heritage linked with policies of cultural tourism and its influence on rural community resilience [12]. (C) Minor narratives of resilience in time of crisis associated with secure rural environment in relation to urban global pressures.…”

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Challenges and Pathways in Sustainable Rural Resiliencies or/and Resistances

Paniagua

2024

Sustainability

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The concept of ‘sustainable rural resiliencies’ has an umbrella consideration for multiple situations. Against the main stream of rural geographical literature, the concept of resistance associated with the concept of resilience is used. The concept of resistance is linked with processes of social and spatial tensions and change in the rural community, while the concept of resilience is linked to periods of relative stability in the place at different scales. But, little research uses resistance and resilience as a spatial-time process in a complementary way. In this contribution we use resistance and resilience in this perspective, with socio-spatial manifestations at global, national, regional, and local levels, in form of four scalar spheres and styles of complementarity: resilience model of stability, mix model bottom up, mix model from above and resistance model associated with tensions.

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“…By observing this process, residents will find greater satisfaction. Affiliative nomads and residents can manage and defend the area cooperatively from the negative effects of outside capital or mass tourism (Gocer et al, 2024). From this perspective, it will be necessary to re-evaluate the previous studies on tourism.…”

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Affiliative nomads in Japan: potential sustainable tourism stakeholders in depopulated rural areas

Horiuchi,

Morishige

2024

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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In Japan, the overall population is declining. Depopulation is severe, resulting in various negative consequences, particularly in rural areas. Rural communities could benefit by collaborating with people from other places, mainly urban areas. Typical examples of visitors or tourists from urban areas in these cases are referred to as “kankei jinko.” The more fundamental issue, however, is that many rural residents have lost confidence in their ability to live in areas with declining and aging populations. It is important to note the potential for highly mobile people from urban areas to increase the civic pride of rural residents. This raises questions about who these nomadic people, or “affiliative nomads,” are and how they interact with residents. To answer these questions, we analyzed cases of affiliative nomads in previous studies. The nomadic people showed respect for the rural areas to the residents; as a result, they were perceived by the residents as being in a stage of growth. When the nomads and residents interact, they create common values such as nature conservation and economic and community revitalization. Thus, the nomads cultivate civic pride among the residents and could be regarded as affiliative nomads. Furthermore, some coordinators bridge residents and nomads to expand their relationships with other people. Affiliative nomads may be sustainable tourism stakeholders and contribute to solving the problems of depopulated areas in Japan and other developed or emerging countries.

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Cultural tourism and rural community resilience: A framework and its application

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in Fujian, China: A Watershed Perspective

Spatial Differentiation and Influencing Factors of Traditional Villages in Fujian, China: A Watershed Perspective

Challenges and Pathways in Sustainable Rural Resiliencies or/and Resistances

Affiliative nomads in Japan: potential sustainable tourism stakeholders in depopulated rural areas

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