Tourism border-making: A political economy of China's border tourism

Gao, Jun; Ryan, Chris; Cave, Jenny; Zhang, Chaozhi

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.02.010

Cited by 44 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 45 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Additionally, Xishuangbanna is a popular tourist destination. Tertiary industry is the pillar of the local economy, accounting for 54.5% of the city’s GDP (Gao et al 2019 ), which can provide food purchasing power and ensure food security for local people. At the provincial level, AVOSI was the main factor affecting food security in Yunnan Province.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiscale analysis of factors affecting food security in China, 1980–2017

Deng

Zhang

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Food security is an important issue affecting people’s lives and social stability. Clarifying levels of food security and the factors affecting it (social, economic, agricultural, climatic) can help improve regional food security. The spatiotemporal patterns and driving factors of food security vary at different scales. There is, however, a lack of research that considers the various factors affecting food security at multiple scales. This study, therefore, analyzed dynamic spatiotemporal changes in food security at small (city), medium (province), and large (country) scales; identified hot and cold areas of food security; and revealed the main factors affecting food security at different scales. A food security index (FSI) was built based on the coupling of grain yield, population, and GDP, and spatial analysis was used to evaluate dynamic spatiotemporal changes in China’s food security from 1980 to 2017. Further, the relationship between food security and its driving factors was quantitatively analyzed using stepwise regression. The results showed greater heterogeneity in food security at the smaller scale than at the larger scale. The key factors affecting food security varied substantially at different scales: the added value of tertiary industry dominated the prefecture level, and gross agricultural output value was the main factor at the provincial and national levels. Multiple-scale research can reveal the status and primary factors of food security and provide a decision-making basis for improving regional food security.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiscale analysis of factors affecting food security in China, 1980–2017

Deng

Zhang

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…First, Chinese peasants are not passive actors to be modernized by state and/or capitalistic forces. Favorable policies should be made to encourage and facilitate local development initiatives and entrepreneurship [47]. Notably, the importance of rural elites in rural development should not be underestimated.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Heritagization and Sustainable Rural Tourism Destination: The Case of China’s Yuanjia Village

2019

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A “cultural turn” from those early management focused studies to more wholesome and exploratory socio-cultural analysis of food with sociological approaches has emerged in more recent food tourism studies. In the Chinese tourism context, however, extant studies are mainly conducted with marketing approaches linked to management to analyze the role of (heritage) foods in tourist perception and experience, and destination marketing. This study thus seeks to understand the mechanism of food heritagization and its effect in Yuanjia Village, a renowned rural tourism destination featuring traditional delicacies in China’s Shaanxi Province. Data were collected via interviews and participant observations. The findings show that, led by local elites and monitored by a bottom-up regulatory system, locals use raw materials associated with being “local”, “traditional”, and “organic”, make food with traditional crafts, and present food in a nostalgic atmosphere for consumption. Traditional foods are reinvented/reproduced as edible exemplars of the culture and heritage of the Guanzhong area (central Shaanxi Plain), and as carriers of nostalgia for a rural past that satisfies the imaginations and needs of surrounding urbanite visitors. This, in turn, contributes to the sustainability of the village as a rural tourism destination, featuring industry convergence that fosters economic sustainability, as well as governance embedded in rurality to deal with tourism benefit distribution (i.e., cooperatives) and social problems (i.e., peasant school) that promotes social sustainability. This research contributes to the understanding of food heritagization from a bottom-up perspective as well as rural destination sustainability from a gastronomical perspective in China.

show abstract

“…This part of China is relatively less developed than other areas of China and includes areas inhabited by people of various ethnic minorities. The traditional culture of ethnic minorities and rich tourism resources make tourism the main industry in border areas [39]. By 2016, the study area had a permanent population of 6.92 million, and a GDP of 158.48 billion yuan, of which income from tourism comprised 85.99 billion, accounting for 54% of the total GDP.…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ecological Security in Border Areas: A Case Study of Southwest China

Qian

Teng

et al. 2022

Land

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Fewer studies on ecological security (ES) in border areas limit the synergistic development of border areas in the context of rapid globalization. The study of ES in border areas of southwest China can enrich the evaluation methods, summarize the knowledge related to ES in border areas, and provide references for similar areas in the world. Therefore, twenty-five international border counties in Yunnan Province were selected to establish a system to evaluate ES; an entropy weight TOPSIS model was used to evaluate the changes in ES from 2004 to 2019. Then, an obstacle degree model was used to diagnose the factors affecting ES. The state of ES was predicted by a gray prediction model (GM) (1,1) in 2025 and 2030. The results show that an improving ES situation presented a spatial distribution pattern of high to low from the southwest to the west and east. Various factors, including fixed assets investment, per-capita fiscal revenue, per-capita GDP, food production, and water regulation, created obstacles to a desirable ES in the study area. Although the ES of border areas will maintain an upward trend under the existing development model, the number of counties that will reach a secure state of ES in 2025 and 2030 is predicted to only be 1 and 2, respectively.

show abstract

Tourism border-making: A political economy of China's border tourism

Cited by 44 publications

References 45 publications

Multiscale analysis of factors affecting food security in China, 1980–2017

Multiscale analysis of factors affecting food security in China, 1980–2017

Food Heritagization and Sustainable Rural Tourism Destination: The Case of China’s Yuanjia Village

The Spatiotemporal Evolution of Ecological Security in Border Areas: A Case Study of Southwest China

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About