Comprehensive evaluation of the cultural inheritance level of tourism-oriented traditional villages: The example of Beijing

Abstract

Many traditional villages promote cultural inheritance by developing tourism, and thus develop into tourism-oriented traditional villages (TOTVs). The key to their sustainable development lies in balancing cultural inheritance and tourism development. Based on memory theory, we constructed a comprehensive evaluation system to measure the cultural inheritance level (CIL). Moreover, taking 16 typical TOTVs in Beijing, China as examples, we evaluated their CIL by using the hierarchical-entropy weight model and the weighted TOPSIS model. The results show that the comprehensive evaluation method of CIL of TOTVs constructed in this paper has strong applicability. The comprehensive CIL values in the case villages vary considerably, and the scores of three dimensions show typical characteristics of great differentiation and imbalance. In addition, we summarized four paths for improving the CIL. This study will help promote the scientific inheritance and utilization of TOTVs, as well as their sustainable development, and will help realize rural revitalization.