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Abstract
In recent years, Tibetan Yubeng Village, located in southwest China, has become a hot spot for studying community tourism development in China's minority areas. Studies of Yubeng Village have been made on two tourism benefit distribution systems that are dominated by the community: the accommodation income distribution system and the caravan rotation system. Analysis and discussion of researchers are based on the formation, change, and influence of these two systems. However, different researchers have different interpretations of some fundamental facts, whether in terms of the time of the systems’ changes or in terms of the specific contents of such changes. Based on firsthand interview records and auxiliary secondhand materials obtained from field investigation, this study mainly takes “time of system change” as an example to discuss the reasons for these differences and advises that researchers should be more rigorous when facing those fundamental facts.
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1 Originally published as: Tourism and villagers without “history”: based on the rethinking of the study of Yubeng village, by Zhang Xiao-ming, in Tourism Tribune 26(3), 2011, pp. 62–69.
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Xiaoming Zhang
Xiaoming Zhang is an associate professor in tourism management and human geography who teaches at Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests include tourism development and rural change in China, and the application of social constructionism and phenomenology in tourism research.