The significance of the West Lake pattern and its heuristic implications for creating China's heritage tourism economics

Songling Xu, Yu Liu, Yihong Qian and Qiuju Wang

Tourism Management, 2017, vol. 58, issue C, 286-292

Abstract: West Lake's economic, social and cultural structure comprises six facets: (1) maintaining West Lake World Heritage Site as an open accessible tourist location; (2) ensuring the planning, management and tourism marketing of West Lake are culturally rather than purely economically oriented; therefore truly benefitting the preservation and conservation of West Lake; (3) selectively decreasing and mitigating the tourism pressure on West Lake, especially in those areas of high cultural, ecological and environmental vulnerability; (4) ensuring travellers adopt appropriate sustainable tourism values to enjoy a positive experience; (5) ensuring the marketing of West Lake tourism and the consequent distribution of incomes comply with legal and other appropriate standards; and (6) expanding and extending the social benefits of West Lake tourism. To aid the examination of West Lake in this paper, a comparison is made between the management policies of West Lake and Mt, Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) to illustrate a number of fundamental and organisational relationships involving tourism at heritage sites.

Keywords: Heritage conservation; Heritage tourism; The tourist economy; West Lake pattern (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.03.013

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