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DOI	10.3390/su11164418
	Agritourism Initiatives in the Context of Continuous Out-Migration: Comparative Perspectives for the Alps and Chinese Mountain Regions
	Dax, Thomas 1; Zhang, Dachang 2; Chen, Yanying 3
通讯作者	Dax, Thomas
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2019
卷号	11 期号:16
英文摘要	After World War II, the economic recovery of Western Europe implied a swift economic transition for all regions, including the area of the Alps, although affecting various parts at different paces and stages. The resulting out-migration led to population decline in some mountain valleys and regions since the 1950s. Such negative population development trends are widespread across mountain areas of the world, including China, where out-migration started after its rural reform in the 1970s. The effect was in some cases even more significant than in the Alps, with the first villages being deserted in the 1980s. Current estimations report about 380,000 rural villages in China being abandoned between 2000-2016, particularly in its mountain regions. While lower population densities might alleviate the pressures on ecology and contribute to environmental benefits, these movements aggravate a spiraling-down process of local economies and culture. In the Alps, many regions that were facing challenges of out-migration and economic weaknesses focused on local initiatives, including agritourism schemes that provided both economic incentives and stability to involved mountain farmers, and the continuation of local land management systems. However, China's interest for promoting rural action and tourism-oriented farm diversification only started more recently, with a range of rural tourism and agricultural tourism initiatives emerging. This paper focuses on lessons from successful initiatives in the Alps that might induce and strengthen China's search for elaborating agritourism activities in mountain areas. In consequence, agritourism might be assessed as a contribution to mitigate out-migration from mountain regions and a core element of the future sustainable development of the Alps and the Chinese countryside.
英文关键词	definition of agritourism comparative studies rural development sustainable tourism mountain development Alpine regions Chinese mountains
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Austria ; USA ; Peoples R China
开放获取类型	gold, Green Submitted
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000484472500162
WOS关键词	RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ; POLICY
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/219025
作者单位	1.Fed Inst Agr Econ Rural & Mt Res, A-1030 Vienna, Austria; 2.Water & Eco Crisis Fdn, San Jose, CA 95014 USA; 3.Guizhou Univ Engn Sci, Bijie Pilot Area Res Inst, Bijie 551700, Guizhou, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dax, Thomas,Zhang, Dachang,Chen, Yanying. Agritourism Initiatives in the Context of Continuous Out-Migration: Comparative Perspectives for the Alps and Chinese Mountain Regions[J],2019,11(16).
APA	Dax, Thomas,Zhang, Dachang,&Chen, Yanying.(2019).Agritourism Initiatives in the Context of Continuous Out-Migration: Comparative Perspectives for the Alps and Chinese Mountain Regions.SUSTAINABILITY,11(16).
MLA	Dax, Thomas,et al."Agritourism Initiatives in the Context of Continuous Out-Migration: Comparative Perspectives for the Alps and Chinese Mountain Regions".SUSTAINABILITY 11.16(2019).