Evolution characteristics and obstacle factors of rural resilience in Chinese minority areas in the background of rural tourism and COVID-19
Abstract Rural tourism and COVID-19 have brought significant impacts and lasting challenges to the resilience development of rural territorial systems. To improve the livelihoods of farmers and promote the sustainable development of tourism village systems, it is of great significance to clarify the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Scientific Reports |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-94186-9 |
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| Summary: | Abstract Rural tourism and COVID-19 have brought significant impacts and lasting challenges to the resilience development of rural territorial systems. To improve the livelihoods of farmers and promote the sustainable development of tourism village systems, it is of great significance to clarify the characteristics of, and obstacle factors to, the evolution of these systems. Based on the concept of production-living-ecology, resilience theory, and sustainable livelihood theory, a resilience assessment framework for tourism villages is constructed from the perspective of farmers in the following three dimensions: production resilience, living resilience and ecological resilience. Moreover, the comprehensive index method and an obstacle degree model are utilized to quantitatively measure and identify the resilience characteristics and obstacle factors of the tourism villages in Xiangxi Prefecture, China. The results reveal the following. (1) The three periods of the evolution of the resilience of tourism villages in Xiangxi Prefecture included the undeveloped tourism period, the normalized tourism period, and the COVID-19 disturbance period. Throughout these periods, tourism village resilience was characterized by a steady increase followed by a small decline, overall demonstrating a fluctuating upward trend. Rural tourism has had a positive effect on the long-term development of the rural territorial system, whereas the COVID-19 pandemic had a negative effect. (2) The tourism village resilience of farmers perspective with different livelihood types exhibits obvious heterogeneity; the tourism village resilience of tourism-led farmers is the highest, followed by that of part-time balanced farmers. Thus, these livelihood types are the main direction for the development and transformation of farmers with other livelihood types. (3) The obstacle factors to the evolution of the resilience of tourism villages in Xiangxi Prefecture exhibit a converging trend. In the three periods, the common obstacles to the evolution and development of tourism village resilience included the number of people participating in rural tourism, the tourism business area, and the area of farmland returned to forests. |
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| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |