Change of Farmers' Household Livelihood Capital Based on the Different Tourism Perceptions in Coastal Rural Areas

Abstract

Xiao, Y.; Yin, K., and Shen, Y., 2019. Change of farmers' household livelihood capital based on the different tourism perceptions in coastal rural areas. In: Guido-Aldana, P.A. and Mulahasan, S. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources and Exploration. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 93, pp. 775–779. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.The paper use analyze the Change of Farmers' Household Livelihood Capital Based on the Different Travel Perception in Kengpan Ancient Village in Zhejiang Province. The results show: (1) 18 households with high perception, accounting for 24% of the total number of farmers, 45 households with a medium perception of 60% of the total number of farmers, and 12 households with low perception, accounting for 16% of the total number of farmers. High-perceived farmers are economically profitable. The perception of social culture and environment is stronger than that of middle perception and low perception farmers. (2) After the development of tourism, the five major capitals of the three types of perception types have changed to some extent. Among them, natural capital has experienced a certain degree of reduction; the increase of physical capital and financial capital; the human capital has a slight increase, but the social capital is low. Therefore, the government should step up publicity to raise farmers' household awareness of and participation in policies. At the same time the government using the region's tourism resources, to create a unique travel model, so as to realize the farmers' household out of poverty and farmers' household livelihood Capital sustainable development.