关键词: 旅游开发; 社会公平; 公平维度; 逻辑框架

Abstract:

Tourism, as a new type of comprehensive industry, not only plays a positive role on promoting the regional related industries, but also reflects the implementation degree of social equity in the regional economic and social development. Making a general survey of the history and reality of China’s tourism development, the social equity problem is always an annoyance which hinders the healthy and stable development of tourism industry in China. However, few academic studies have systematically discussed the social equity problem in tourism development. This article argues that the social inequities in tourism development are mainly implied as unfair tourism land resources consumption, unfair distribution of benefits to local residents, unfair pricing policy of tourist attractions as well as unfair tourism products development for special groups. The local governments in the poor areas intend to develop local economy through tourism development and thus to narrow the gap between regions, but in fact, because of the tourism resources in the development of predatory development, and unfair problems such as enclosure movement, the gap between rich and poor, urban and rural areas is experiencing widening trends. The reasons why social inequity is caused in tourism development can be attributed to three aspects, namely, discarded concept of citizens’ rights, fuzzy property system and the absence of government functions. Finally, the article points out that, to achieve social equity in China's tourism development, the existing social equity security system should be revised. Furthermore, a logic framework concerning various social equity dimensions should be constructed to guide the specific tourism development practice in China.

Keywords: tourism development; social equity; equity dimensions; logic framework