Analysis on the Future Policy Tendency of Ecotourism Management Based on the Appropriation of Benefits in Western China

Abstract

The trend of mass-oriented development modes to ignore community and environmental interests in Western China has put ecotourism areas into a nonsustainable development state. This policy involves internal governmental interest sharing and balance issues. In reference to the debate on the unified management and property rights transfer management modes of ecotourism resources, this article builds a complete information dynamic game model to discuss the relative utilities to the central government of different property rights management modes. Results of the dynamic game analysis do not support the present property rights transfer policy adopted by the central government. This article suggests that the central government should be inclined to strengthen the unified management of ecotourism resources in future management mode reforms.

Keywords:

• dynamic game model
• ecotourism
• property right transfer
• unified property right
• Western China

Acknowledgments

This study is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40971297), the Humanities and Social Sciences Key Base of the Ministry of Education of P.R. China (No. 2007JJD790138), and the Philosophy & Social Science Planning Project of Sichuan Province (No. SC07C007).