Tourist Destination at Cross-Provincial Borderland and the Tragedy of the Commons: A Case of Tourism in Lake Lugu, China
Communities living in border areas often find themselves in a complex reality of living in the middle, between two societies and cultures, between two economic systems and in the shadow of changing regional relations. This reality may be confusing but it also contains the potential seeds for economic development in various sectors, especially tourism. This study examines the development of tourism in cross-provincial borderlands, one of the most unique forms of borderland attractions/destinations in the world today. One reason why tourist destination resources have proven difficult to manage sustainably is that many of their most important attributes are common resources and thus subject to the tragedy of the commons. Common resources are subject to both overuse and underdevelopment. The study presents a typology of the physical, social and cultural elements that have potential for tourism development at cross-provincial borderlands, using the tourism development at Lugu Lake that belongs to Yunnan and Sichuan Province in China as a case study. And it considers how the Sichuan side and the Yunnan side of Lake Lugu exhibited the characteristics of an unmanaged common resource.
LIN Xiaotao JIE Xiaowen
Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, P.R.China, 610064
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Strategic Management(2011年战略管理国际会议 ICSM)
成都
英文
132-138
2011-09-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）