Comprehensive evaluation of the cultural inheritance level of tourism-oriented traditional villages: The example of Beijing
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2023
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Elservier
Abstract
Many traditional villages promote cultural inheritance by developing tourism, and thus develop into tourismoriented traditional villages (TOTVs). The key to their sustainable development lies in balancing cultural inĀ
heritance 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.
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Tourism Management Perspectives 48 (2023) 101166
Keywords
Cultural inheritance; Traditional; Village; Rural tourism; Rural revitalization; Sustainable development