Tourism-induced land acquisition in protected areas: Land rent dynamics and state monopoly rent around the Wulingyuan world heritage site in China

Jingyu Li, Arie Stoffelen, Gertjan Wijburg and Frank Vanclay

Annals of Tourism Research, 2024, vol. 109, issue C

Abstract: Tension between nature conservation, green grabbing, land acquisition for tourism, and value grabbing highlight a significant yet understudied area: the underlying land rent mechanisms and the state's role in driving green land acquisition for tourism. Using Marxian land rent theory, we explored how ‘state monopoly rent’ is produced by tourism-induced green land acquisition and the consequent displacement and resettlement of communities in and around the Wulingyuan World Heritage. State actors actively acquired land and land use rights for tourism development to maximise the rent gap despite, and perhaps because of, national nature conservation priorities and restrictions. State actors are a key player in the political economy of tourism by directly capitalizing on potential land rent in China.

Keywords: Political economy of tourism; Accumulation by dispossession; Touristification; Rural gentrification; Ecotourism; Conservation-induced displacement and resettlement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103823

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