Eco-cultural Tourism Research Articles

Forest Gardening on Abandoned Agricultural Land Contribute to Ground Cover Change and Food Security

Various forest products such as nuts, mangoes, bananas, lime, silk from mulberry leaves,essential oil, timber, animal food, perfume from tree blossoms, mulch and biochar, possess high potential to increase rural income. However, farming families in Nepal can hardly afford the investment to create such productive ecosystems. Connecting to the global market through Carbon dioxide (CO2)– certificates could serve to finance the creation of forest gardens. To test and demonstrate such approach, a project on ‘building village economies through climate farming and forest gardening (BeChange)’ has been implemented by 276 farming families in fourdistricts (Tanhun, Lamjung, Gorkha and Kaski) of Nepal. Using Global Positioning System (GPS) point survey, household surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), a triad group system, field observation and reports, the success of establishing privately owned forest gardens was assessed. A total of 42,205 mixed tree species such as Michelia, Elaeocarpus, and Cinnamomum tamala were planted on abandoned agriculture land of 276 families. The set-up and maintenance of the forest gardens was financed with advanced payments for the carbon sink services of the planted trees. Farmers who succeeded with tree survival rates above 70 per cent received anadditional yearly carbon sink fee. This activity was linked to other income generating activities such as cultural eco-tourism, cinnamon leaf essential oil distillation, and intercropping of high value shade loving crops such as ginger, turmeric, and lentils. The outcomes of the project show significant improvements of the livelihood and food security in the project villages.

Evaluation of the coupling and coordination degree of eco-cultural tourism system in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang-Shanghai-Anhui region

This study aimed to reveal the interactions and coordination between culture, ecology, and tourism. Using the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Anhui (JZSA11JZSA: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Anhui region is located in eastern China downstream of the Yangtze River.) region of China as the study area, we constructed an eco-cultural tourism system evaluation index system, calculated the coupling and coordination degree (CCD22CCD: Coupling and coordination degree.) of the eco-cultural tourism system using the coupled coordination model, and identified the influencing factors using the obstacle degree model. The findings show that the CCD of the JZSA region continuously improved from 2009 to 2019 and reached an intermediate coordination level in 2019. However, there was still an obvious regional divergence effect. Culture and ecology are significant obstacles to the CCD of eco-cultural tourism systems. From the perspective of the development and evolution of influencing factors, ecological and tourism factors have increasingly negative effects. Therefore, ecological and tourism development should be considered in the future.

Tourism Development Strategy for Increasing Regional Origin Income (PAD) At the Tourism Service, Buton Selatan District

South Buton Regency has great potential to optimize the tourism sector. Apart from presenting stunning natural scenery, tourism also positively impacts various aspects of life, including increasing the economy through the income sector, increasing employment opportunities, promoting regional culture, and developing infrastructure. This study aims to identify strategic factors, which are strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats, and then formulate priority tourism development strategies to increase local revenue (PAD) at the South Buton Regency Tourism Office. Primary data is used through field observations and interviews, while secondary data is obtained from previous research, books, and related agencies. The results of the study indicate alternative strategies that can be considered, including increasing cultural ecotourism programs as well as improving infrastructure and marketing, promotion and awareness campaign strategies to promote South Buton Regency as an attractive tourist destination, attractions diversification strategies to attract more tourists and increase repeat visits and increase promotion through social media with an emphasis on the uniqueness of local appeal.

Using Wireless Network Sensors as a New Medium of Communication for Sustainable Eco-cultural Tourism

Using Wireless Network Sensors as a New Medium of Communication for Sustainable Eco-cultural Tourism

Eco-Cultural Development of a Restored Lake Environment: The Case Study of Lake Karla (Thessaly, Greece)

Lake Karla is the first reconstructed lake in the EU, supporting agriculture, biodiversity and cultural activities and being part of the Natura 2000 protected area network. In order to investigate opportunities for the sustainable development of the wider lake area, this study aims to identify and assess current ecosystem services in the catchment basin of lake Karla with focus on cultural ecosystem services and in particular on eco-cultural tourism routes and trails. Based on recent literature and field surveys the main results of the study include mapping of ecosystem types and a first overview of potential ecosystem services. Additionally, mapping, assessment and proposal of selected eco-cultural routes alongside with estimation on their carrying capacity is also presented. Finally, discussion on future steps and policy recommendations is provided, towards the integrated, sustainable management of the protected area.

Opportunities and Challenges of Community-based Eco-cultural Tourism Development: A Case of Gwirize Cultural Village in Malawi

Summary The paradigm of community-based eco-cultural tourism has garnered recognition as a support system for sustainable tourism due to its ability to extend the benefits of tourism to rural and marginalized communities. This approach serves as a means to promote social and economic development and encourages local participation in tourism development. This case focuses on the impact, opportunities and challenges of community-based eco-cultural tourism at Gwirize Cultural Village in Malawi. The cultural village has had a positive impact on the community through the creation of a direct source of income, stimulation of local businesses, improvement of access to clean water, provision of entertainment and preservation of cultural heritage. However, the cultural village also faces numerous challenges, including lack of managerial and marketing expertise, inadequate skills to provide a diverse range of tourist services and lack of coordination with other tourism service providers in the district. It is recommended that capacity-building programmes be implemented to enhance local managerial skills and tourism services, and that management and operational frameworks be developed to guide communities involved in community-based eco-cultural tourism initiatives. Information © The Authors 2023

Promoting rural economic development in many ways under the strategy of rural revitalization-A case study of Jingxing Township in Huaiyuan, Bengbu

The No.1 Document of the Central Committee in 2021 pointed out that it is necessary to comprehensively promote rural revitalization as a major task to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. After realizing a well-off society in an all-round way, common prosperity is the universal appeal of all the people. Jingxing Township in Huaiyuan County has superior geographical conditions, located at the junction of five rivers, only 5 kilometers away from the county seat, and has excellent water resources and eco-cultural tourism landscape. Adhering to the green development concept of "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", local governments should carry out reforms according to the actual situation, take measures simultaneously, and actively promote the rural revitalization strategy to take root. However, at present, the scope of cultural revitalization is still somewhat narrow, and there are still many tourism resources to be further developed. The ecological environment is people's livelihood, and the core of industrial prosperity is to activate the ecological resources that have been precipitated for a long time without being priced in the industrialized era. To implement the rural revitalization strategy, we need to adhere to green development and make a good ecology a solid support point for rural revitalization. Do a good job in the organic combination of industrial revitalization, cultural revitalization and ecological revitalization, and jointly promote the rural revitalization and long-term development of Jingxing Township.

New Pattern and Countermeasures of Ecotourism Development in China

Ecotourism is an effective carrier and an important starting point for the construction of ecological civilization, the best way and important way to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society and develop a low-carbon economy. It is a strong support and important content for building a healthy and beautiful China and realizing the Chinese dream. Under the background of three pressures, correctly studying and judging the new pattern of China's ecotourism development can promote the tourism industry to develop better. This paper extends the concept of ecotourism from the perspective of the "five in one" big system, and defines ecotourism as a social activity that takes the Natural Ecotourism subsystem as the core content and includes six subsystems, namely, the economic ecotourism subsystem, the cultural ecotourism subsystem, the social ecotourism subsystem, the political ecotourism subsystem and the health ecosystem subsystem. It also analyzes the development trend of ecotourism from the perspective of eight major regions and cities, and puts forward policy suggestions such as doing a good job in unified planning of ecotourism, increasing publicity and education, constantly improving relevant laws and regulations of ecotourism, and increasing the ecological added value of ecotourism, focusing on the opportunities and challenges faced by ecotourism at present.

Evaluation and influencing factors of farmers’ sustainable livelihood response to ecocultural tourism in minority areas of China

Ecocultural tourism plays an crucial role in promoting poverty reduction and farmers’ sustainable livelihood enhancement worldwide, which has attracted strong attention from scholars and society. However, the impact of ecological and cultural capital of farmers’ sustainable livelihoods have not been yet fully investigated. This paper modifies the sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF) and emphasizes the effects of ecological and cultural capital on farmers’ sustainable livelihoods. The modified SLF can be used as a possible theoretical model to comprehensively characterize farmers’ sustainable livelihoods in tourism destinations with rich ecological and cultural resources. By constructing an evaluation index system, principle component analysis and multiple linear regression are used to analyze the types and response levels of farmers’ sustainable livelihoods to ecocultural tourism and determine the factors influencing this response. The results show that farmers’ sustainable livelihood responses to ecocultural tourism can be classified into six types. The overall response values are low, and the responses are ranked by the degree of response in descending order as complete response, balanced development, cultural network, ecology-dominant, developmental delay, and resource advantage response. Farmers’ sustainable livelihoods respond strongly to cultural capital and ecological capital factors and relatively weakly to physical, natural, social, financial, and labor capital. Five main factors that influence farmers’ sustainable livelihood responses are then identified. Finally, strategies and suggestions for livelihood transformation, strategy selection, and improvement are proposed. This study provides case study examples for promoting the sustainable development of ecocultural tourism sites and improving farmers’ livelihoods in China and worldwide.

Performance evaluation of the development of eco-cultural tourism in Fujian Province based on the method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation

The performance evaluation serves as a crucial means of examining the economic, ecological and social benefits of eco-cultural tourism in a holistic manner and a vital method of assessing the sustainable development of regional eco-cultural tourism. However, due to the non-profit features of public resources, it is hard to evaluate the performance of eco-cultural tourism in an objective manner through the conventional approach that depends on economic performance as the primary evaluation indicator. Therefore, based on the balanced score card, this paper aims to build a system of performance evaluation indicators custom-tailored to the eco-cultural tourism development in Fujian Province from four aspects, namely, financial performance, public benefits, internal process and learning and growth. By adopting the method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, the study intends to objectively assess the economic value, efficiency and public benefits of eco-cultural tourism in Fujian Province. In addition, by adopting the method of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the study has identified the weights of the performance evaluation indicators, namely, 0.558 for public benefits, 0.122 for financial performance, 0.057 for internal process and 0.263 for learning and growth. Judging from the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, the effects are found to be at the average level for the eco-cultural tourism development in Fujian Province, scoring between 60 and 74. As shown by the research findings, although Fujian Province is endowed with optimal resources of eco-cultural tourism, further efforts need to be made in exploring and optimizing the building of eco-cultural tourism.

Application of Artificial Intelligence-Based Sensor Technology in the Recommendation Model of Cultural Tourism Resources

Aiming at the lack of theoretical basis for the development of cultural tourism resources, an application method of artificial intelligence-based sensor technology in the recommendation model of cultural tourism resources is proposed. Sensor network is an application-based network. Compared with traditional wireless communication network, it has the characteristics of large node scale, self-organized multihop, unattended, and no communication infrastructure. Combined with artificial intelligence sensor technology, this paper attempts to construct an evaluation index system and evaluation model for cultural tourism resources, and uses this model to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of cultural ecotourism resources in the western region. The experimental results show that theEvalue of the evaluation result of cultural tourism resources in the western region is 6.346, which has a good development value. Secondly, from the specific evaluation results of each level, the western region has the highest cultural tourism standard, which has 6.605. Cultural tourism resources, landscape resources, and development conditions scored lower. Among them, cultural tourism resources and landscape resources have the highest score (7.186), and the economic and cultural field has the lowest score (6.092). Among the cultural tourism development conditions, the policy conditions are high (6.823), but the location conditions are very low, only 4.879 points. Therefore, it is found that the model takes cultural tourism landscape resources, cultural tourism environment resources, and cultural tourism development conditions as the content of cultural tourism resources evaluation, which is comprehensive and has strong hierarchy and pertinence; fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method has strong objectivity to determine the weight and the value classification; and weighting evaluation model of cultural tourism resources has rationality and generalizability and can provide a scientific basis for the classification and evaluation of cultural tourism resources and the planning and development of cultural tourism.

Exploration on the Development of Green Eco-cultural Tourism in Sucrose Industry

As an important sugarcane producing area in China, sugarcane culture has become an important part of China's traditional culture. Taking Laibin area of Guangxi as an example, this paper discusses the environmental advantages suitable for sugarcane production, powerful socio-economic conditions and local unique sugarcane culture in Laibin area, Integrate the research perspective of local eco-cultural tourism development. By strengthening the construction of local infrastructure in Laibin area, integrating tourism, sugarcane and cultural resources, promote the vigorous development of eco-cultural tourism experience projects dominated by local sugarcane culture, promote economic income and realize local industrial upgrading.

Biological and Cultural Ecotourism Interpretation of Mekar Utama Village, Kendawangan District, West Kalimantan

Mekar Utama Village, located in the Ketapang Industrial Forest Area (Hutan Ketapang Industri-HKI), is a unique and attractive ecotourism site with various natural resources. This village's three hamlets have the potential for biological and cultural ecotourism. The study aims to obtain potential data and interpret the biological and socio-cultural ecotourism in Mekar Utama village. The method used was a survey with observation and interview approaches. Three interpretive tracks and 18 biological and cultural ecotourism potential were available at the study site. Nine potential plants found were kantung semar (Nepenthes sp. ), bamboo (Bambusa sp. ), bajakah (Spatholobus littoralis Hassk), pasak bumi (Eurycoma longifolia Jack), ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri), meranti (Shorea smithiana), gaharu (Aquilaria malaccensis), ketatai (Antiaris toxicaria) and pulai (Alstonia scholaris). Ulin, meranti, and gaharu are protected species. Kura-kura hutan (Dogania suplana), owa kelawat (Hylobates albibarbis), and honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi and Trigona sp.) were three unique animal species. Six potential cultures were found, i.e. ethnic, traditions, traditional rituals, arts, special foods, historical/sacred places, and folklore/myths. All the potentials were found in three interpretation tracks, i.e., the Gantang river hamlet, which was 6.5 km long and took 26 minutes to reach, the Sukaria hamlet, which was 5.3 km long and took 21

The Deep Integration of China's Regional Ice-Snow Industry and Ecocultural Tourism under the Background of Beijing Winter Olympic Games: Taking Hunan as an Example.

Under the background of the promotion of the Olympic effect of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the in-depth implementation of the national ice and snow industry's strategy of “expanding from the south to the west and expanding from the east,” China's ice and snow industry has ushered in a new period of development. By applying literature and logical analysis, etc., with in-depth analysis of various subjective and objective supplies for the integration of China's ice-snow industry and ecocultural tourism in Hunan Province, it is considered to be driven by the bidding and preparation effect of Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 2022. The supply capacity of ice-snow industry venues, professional facilities, and public services are gradually strengthened, and the soft power of construction of the ice-snow industry needs to be coordinated and improved. The problem of safety is prominent and it is urgent to build a safety prevention and emergency management of ice-snow tourism.The integration of ice-snow sports and ecotourism industry has gradually became a prototype, but the integration point, line, and surface still need to be further strengthened and expanded. Accordingly, this paper puts forward a method to realize the transformation and upgrading of the commercial operation mode of the integration of ice-snow industry and ecological culture tourism, comprehensively to improve the ecological innovation ability of ice-snow tourism public service, to create multi-industry ice-snow industry cluster area, and to construct the basic framework system of risk prevention and control and management with multisubject participation and other relevant strategies.

Tradition lubuk larangan as a local wisdom for ecocultural tourism river management through landscape anthropolinguistic approach in Mandailingnese

Lubuk larangan is a pond that contains freshwater fishes in Kecamatan Tambangan, Kabupaten Mandailing Natal, North Sumatera. The objective of this study was to describe eco cultural tourism river management at the core of the landscape anthropolinguistic approach. The method was qualitative, and an interactive model was implemented. The data were collected by doing an interview and participant observation. Then they were analyzed data reduction, data display, and verifying/conclusion with landscape anthropolinguistic as an approach. This approach was the new paradigm to describe and explain the analysis from a linguistic perspective in landscape study. The study results showed that Lubuk larangan was a natural resource for the villagers economically and contained social, cultural ecology, and religious value. It became a tradition and belonged to Mandailingnese as their local wisdom. It can be concluded that Lubuk larangan became a concept for them to understand and apply management for maintaining environmental usage patterns with cultural-based tourism space.

Learning Lessons of Thanh HOA Province in Building Ecotourism Models FROM some Locals of Vietnam

The mountainous area to the west of Thanh Hoa province is a land with many advantages in terms of rich and diverse natural resources, including forest resources, mountains, lakes, waterfalls, caves and many landscapes and landmarks. To conserve tourism resources at tourist destinations, for sustainable development, and at the same time to encourage and create opportunities for local people to participate, over the years, eco-cultural tourism and ethnic groups in many localities throughout the country: Lac Village – Mai Chau (Hoa Binh province), Ba Be National Park (Bac Kan province), Sin Chai – Sa Pa (Lao Cai province), Buon Don (Dak Lak province)… With the content of this article, the author will focus on giving lessons learned based on actual research in localities to apply to Thanh Hoa province of Vietnam.

Eco-Cultural Tourism and Socio-Economic Development: A Case Study of Chandubi Festival of Chandubi Area in South Kamrup, Assam

Eco-Cultural Tourism is a new area which emphasizes on the promotion and development of culturally rich and ecologically important sites and locations or places. Through the promotion of this kind of tourism, the inhabitants living in the surrounding and peripheral areas may be socio-economically benefited. The community participation process would have also continued in this eco-cultural tourism. In eco-cultural tourism, the emphasis should be given on conservation of ecological diversity and cultural heritage of the respective community. In eco-cultural tourism, tourists are attracted towards the local culture and flora and fauna constituting the ecology. Chandubi is a well-known natural lake located 64 km away from the Guwahati city and included in the Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council area of south kamrup region, Assam. Chandubi Festival has been organized at the bank of the Chandubi Lake for the last 4-5 years. It is a promotional festival for attraction of visitors and tourists to Chandubi. But most prominent objective of Chandubi Festival is to create awareness among the mass for conservation of ecological diversity of the lake as well as to promote folk culture and ethnic tradition of the different communities especially of the Pati Rabha community for domestic and foreign tourists at this place. Through organizing this festival, the organizer tries to draw the attention of the concerned Departments of Government and Non-Government organizations for infrastructural development of the place and the attainment of socio-economic development of the entire community who have been participated in the different process in the promotion of eco-cultural tourism.

Taiwanese Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Revitalization: Community Practices and Local Development

The continuing interest and progress in indigenous communities and local economies based on traditional, cultural, and ecological knowledge contributes to indigenous resilience. Here we report on an ongoing collaborative project investigating the process of renewal of cultural heritage through strengthening the roots of indigenous cultural traditions of knowledge and practice, and the changing concepts of tradition. The project investigates the various mechanisms for conserving indigenous culture: How the heritage of indigenous culture is reconstructed; how this heritage is related to the social frame and practice of everyday life; how power intervention affects the contestation of heritage; and in the context of heritage contestation, how cultural heritage turns into economic capital in the tourism economy of the community. The project explores the process of cultural heritagization of indigenous traditional knowledge through six individual projects in the areas of food and edible heritage, ethnic revival, weaving, solidarity economy, cultural ecotourism, and indigenous agro-products. In addition, the project examines the establishment of a constructive dialogue between the “traditional future”, cultural heritage literature and local practice in the interest of the consolidation of alternative development.

Tri Hita Karana and Tourism Village Management Models for Wellbeing

This study aims to analyze the traditional law community unit is examined by emphasizing the concept of Tri Hita Karana as a reference for village spatial planning, village buildings, and harmonization with cultural and environmental conservation in Penglipuran village. Based on field surveys, several attractions in Indonesia have not heeded the concepts of Tri Hita Karana, Tri Mandala, and Asta Kosala-Kosali. Sample of this study were the traditional village officers and associations of the Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association to test the model of the tourism village that imply the humanist integration of indigenous peoples empowerment. Statistical analysis is based on survey data and records of the amount of environmental damage due to high tourist activity. The results of this study shows that mutual humanist synergy is a collective nature of indigenous peoples and tourism service actors leading to environmentally friendly cultural ecotourism. The steady culture of the survival of traditions, customs, and ancestral culture has an impact on sustainable tourism development. The environmentally unconscious behavior becomes a challenge. Prevention of environmental damage can be overcome by offering a model of the Penglipuran tourism village as a universal model with environmental balance characteristics.

Eco-Agricultural Economic Development Strategy Based on Improving the Eco-Cultural Tourism Environment in Rural Areas along the Coast

Sun, Y., 2020. Eco-Agricultural economic development strategy based on improving the eco-cultural tourism environment in rural areas along the coast. In: Guido Aldana, P.A. and Kantamaneni, K. (eds.), Advances in Water Resources, Coastal Management, and Marine Science Technology. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 104, pp. 648–651. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.The countryside is rich in China's rich traditional culture, but also there are many cultural heritages. In the city, people are busy working day and night, every day in the high-pressure environment of life, the city is to enhance the economic level of our country's main areas, in the city life of the people, the modern atmosphere is more intense, but also lost a lot of traditional cultural customs, in the festival time without the past strong holiday atmosphere, it is difficult to enjoy the beautiful natural scenery, so people living in the city during the holidays, hope to even go into the countryside to feel the real feeling, purify their hearts, feel the charm of nature. This paper studies the development of eco-agriculture economy in order to improve the eco-cultural tourism environment in rural areas, hoping to make rural eco-cultural tourism promote the development of eco-agriculture economy, promote the economic progress of rural areas, improve the quality of life of local people, and provide higher quality tourism services for tourists who come to the area.